Food safety and quality:impact of private regulation

on the industry

European University Institute12 March 2010

Dario Dongo CIAA, Food Safety Management / Hygiene Task Force, v.chairman

Global Food Safety Initiative TC, CIAA representativeISO TC34/SC17 (Food Safety Management), CIAA representative

Federalimentare, EU & Regulative Policies, responsible

The EU food & drink market

77,500 food industries (>9 employees)

<10 retailers (70% of the market)

PRICEQUALITY

SAFETY

BRAND

TRUSTSAFETY

TRADITION

C O M P E T I T I O N

N O N N O N -- N E G O T I A B L E C O N D I T I O N N E G O T I A B L E C O N D I T I O N

INNOVATION

Market requests

Legislation

Safety

Quality

Healthiness

Values

TRUST

Marketing

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

What the retail asks for

BRC

IFS

Dutch HACCP

SQF 2000GlobalGAPMEANS

AIMS

Product Safety

Supplier’s reliability

ISO 9001

. . . . . .

B2B standards and schemes

Available standards & schemes

• Many certifications & audits related to food safety areimposed 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

How do standards compare?

IFSBRCISO

22000ISO 9001

00++Allows for specific customer requirements

++++Auditable through major certifiers

--++Certificate recognized globally

++0-Covers PRP (Pre-Requisite Programs, GMP's)

+++-Covers Food Safety system

000+Covers Quality Management system

-++Stakeholder independent -

Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) benchmark

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

ISO 22000:2005

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 14001certification(to cover the entire Food Quality-Safety spectrum)

Cons:

� still a “hollow shell” … -> something had to be done ->

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)

Food industry GMP’s (1)

Food industry GMP’s (2)

From the past present ...

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

Examples of certifications and audits imposed by retailers in the EU

… to the near future !

A single certification & audit on food safety, to berecognized on the global market:

ISO 22000 System certificate

+

ISO 22002

The certification process

•• Implementing ISO 22000Implementing ISO 22000 & & PAS 220PAS 220

•• Meeting Meeting FSSC 22000 scheme FSMSFSSC 22000 scheme FSMS requirementsrequirements

•• Certification Certification by approved Certification Bodyby approved Certification Body

•• MinorMinor and and major nonmajor non--conformitiesconformities

•• ReportReport and and CertificateCertificate

•• RegistrationRegistration on on websitewebsite

•• Validity certificate (3 years)Validity certificate (3 years)

•• Annual surveillance auditAnnual surveillance audit, , 3 yearly renewal3 yearly renewal