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30th June 2009 by Alex Briggs2 Comments
This Guardian article highlights the pressures that new food safety regulations and standards are putting on smaller organisations.
The three main findings of the article are:
New food safety rules could encourage mergers
Added standards benefit big producers, hurt small players
Smaller processors, exporters, handlers under pressure
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30th June 2009 at 11:08 am
ISO 22000 provides two channels for firms looking to develop the core components of a food safety management system. One is to undertake a site specific hazard analysis. The other it to make use of an “externally developed combination of control measures” - i.e. a set of appropriate control measures that are generic and have been developed with the same rigour as would be expected of a site specific set. The latter approach was included in the standard to assist micro, small and medium sized enterprises.
Now that the new ISO subcommittee SC17 has been established within TC34 to guide the future development of the ISO 22000 family of standards, that body needs to set our clear guidance for industry organizations and other bodies, perhaps even for Codex committees, about “externally developed combinations of control measures” so that the outcomes predicted by the FAO/WHO study can be mitigated.
10th July 2009 at 6:08 pm
I have read your article, its good, the new rules should have something for the small handlers and exporters.