The Global Food Safety Initiative wanted to see more specific PRP requirements added to ISO 22000 before benchmarking the standard and voting on approval. By adding PAS 220 requirements to ISO 22000 they created FSSC 22000, which has now been benchmarked. Final approval is pending and will be addressed at the next GFSI board meeting.

ISO/TS 22002-1 will play a similar role. By using ISO/TS 22000 along with the ISO 22000 standard when developing a food safety management system, manufacturers will have more guidance on the specifics that are required for their PRPs.

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Generally the ISO 22000 Standard addresses:

• Having an overall Food Safety Policy for your organization, developed by top management.
• Setting objectives that will drive your companies efforts to comply with this policy.
• Planning and designing a management system and documenting the system.
• Maintaining records of the performance of the system.
• Establishing a group of qualified individuals to make up a Food Safety Team.
• Defining communication procedures to ensure effective communication with important contacts outside the company (regulatory, customers, suppliers and others) and for effective internal communication.
• Having an emergency plan
• Holding management review meetings to evaluate the performance of the FSMS
• Providing adequate resources for the effective operation of the FSMS including appropriately trained and qualified personnel, sufficient infrastructure and appropriate work environment to ensure food safety
• Following HACCP principles
• Establishing a traceability system for identification of product
• Establishing a corrective action system and control of nonconforming product
• Maintaining a documented procedure for handling withdrawal of product
• Controlling monitoring and measuring devices
• Establishing and maintaining and internal audit program
• Continually updating and improving the FSFM

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