Brief evaluation on private regulations on the food chain. Focus on food safety management schemes, audits and certification

1. Food safety and quality:
impact of private regulation
on the industry
European University Institute
12 March 2010
Dario Dongo
CIAA, Food Safety Management / Hygiene Task Force, v.chairman
Global Food Safety Initiative TC, CIAA representative
ISO TC34/SC17 (Food Safety Management), CIAA representative
Federalimentare, EU & Regulative Policies, responsible

2. The EU food & drink market
77,500 food industries (>9 employees)
QUALITY PRICE BRAND TRADITION INNOVATION
COMPETITION
NON-NEGOTIABLE CONDITION
SAFETY TRUST SAFETY
<10 retailers (70% of the market)

3. Market requests
Values
Ma
rk
et
ing
Healthiness
Quality
TR
Safety
US
Legislation
T

4. Trust building, keys
• Legal requirements (HACCP-based
procedures)
+
• Incident management (internal procedure)
+
• Interaction with the other actors in the
food chain (from stable to table)
• Food safety system/scheme
+
• Third-party certification

5. What the retail asks for
ISO 9001
Dutch HACCP
IFS
MEANS GlobalGAP
SQF 2000
BRC ... ...
Product Safety
AIMS
Supplier’s reliability

6. B2B standards and schemes

7. Available standards & schemes
• Many certifications & audits related to food safety are
imposed by retailers on different markets
• Year after year, retail owned schemes are updated with
further requirements. Their scope tends to grow, from food
safety to environmental criteria, and others
...
• The Food industry suffers from a multitude of
audit/certification schemes and formats, and needs
Harmonization and stakeholders consultation
on common grounds and objectives, no sense to multiply
efforts and costs
-> a cost-efficiency issue

8. How do standards compare?
ISO ISO
BRC IFS
9001 22000
Stakeholder independent + + - -
Covers Quality Management system + 0 0 0
Covers Food Safety system - + + +
Covers PRP (Pre-Requisite Programs, - 0 + +
GMP's)
Certificate recognized globally + + - -
Auditable through major certifiers + + + +
Allows for specific customer + + 0 0
requirements
Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) benchmark

9. Goal: a single, open system
• Transparency -> access to retail global market
make Q/FS manual online available to customers
make requirements available to suppliers
• Risk assessment -> address EU-Codex rules
level of attention to individual suppliers/details dependent on risk
analysis
• Use of “customer requirements” -> no multiple schemes
specific requirements, to be agreed between supplier and
customer, to be covered within (not: additional to) ISO 22000/PRP
->an efficient, transparent, auditable way to make requirements
carry through and ensure true chain management

10. ISO 22000:2005

11. About ISO 22000
Pros:
can be applied by the whole food chain
(manufacturers/suppliers/co-manufacturers/licensees alike)
owned by standard organization
supported by ~ 140 countries
auditable globally through reputable certifiers
can be integrated with ISO 9001, ISO 14001
certification
(to cover the entire Food Quality-Safety spectrum)
Cons:
still a “hollow shell” … -> something had to be done ->

12. Our solution
Since GFSI recognized that a ‘Pre Requisite Program’ – Good
Manufacturing Practices (GMP) chapter was missing from ISO
22000,
• CIAA drafted a PRP-GMP doc, based on company know-how and
Codex Alimentarius
• BSI (British Standards Institute), then ISO standardized this doc
-> PAS (Publicly Available Specification) 220:2008
-> ISO/TS 22002-1:2009
• FSSC 22000 certification scheme was then developed, in order to
integrate ISO 22000+PAS 220
• GFSI recognized FSSC 22000 as equivalent to its own Guidance
doc, Rev- 5 (23 Feb. 2010)

13. Food industry GMP’s (1)

14. Food industry GMP’s (2)

15. From the past present ...
Examples of certifications and audits imposed by
retailers in the EU
1) Quality management (company policy): ISO 9001 certification
2) UK: BRC certification
3) Germany/France: IFS certification
4) Holland/Denmark: NL/DK-HACCP certification
5) Sale of by-products as animal feed: GMP+feed cert.
other possible audits: public controls and “ad hoc” export
certificates, customs controls, customers audits, Halal (US$2tn
market), Kosher

16. … to the near future !
A single certification & audit on food safety, to be
recognized on the global market:
ISO 22000 System certificate
+
ISO 22002

17. The certification process
• Implementing ISO 22000 & PAS 220
• Meeting FSSC 22000 scheme FSMS requirements
• Certification by approved Certification Body
• Minor and major non-conformities
• Report and Certificate
• Registration on website
• Validity certificate (3 years)
• Annual surveillance audit, 3 yearly renewal