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HACCP
Demonstrate your commitment to food safety
Recent incidents related to food safety have demonstrated that weak controls in the supply chain can dramatically impact our day-to-day lives and turn the fortunes of successful companies, even whole regions, upside down. Consumers and governments are currently pushing for safer food management systems throughout the whole supply chain, from primary producers to exporters, feed manufacturers to restaurants. What’s more, customers want proof of your food safety up-front, in addition to being assured that your company will continue to meet their needs now and in the long term. That’s a challenge, but also an opportunity companies can benefit from.
HACCP – for safe food management systems
The Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) certification enables you to demonstrate your commitment to food safety and customer satisfaction, as well as continuously improving your corporate image and integrating the realities of a changing world.
HACCP is an international principle defining the requirements for effective control of food safety. The HACCP system helps organisations focus on the hazards that affect food safety/hygiene and systematically identifies them by setting up critical control limits at critical points during the food production process. HACCP is built around seven principles:
- Analysis of food hazards: biological, chemical or physical
- Identification of critical control points: raw materials, storage, processing, distribution and consumption
- Establishment of critical control limits and preventive measures: for example, minimum cooking temperature and time
- Monitoring of these critical control points
- Establishment of corrective actions
- Keeping records
- Systematic and regular auditing of the system in place by independent third party certification bodies
The benefits of HACCP
Certification against the HACCP principles enhances your food safety management system and your product’s quality. It instantly demonstrates your commitment to producing or trading in safe food, which can be particularly beneficial when you are subject to inspection by regulatory authorities or stakeholders. Demonstrating a real commitment to food safety can also transform your brand and corporate image and act as an effective entry-to-market tool, opening up new business opportunities around the world.
Certifying HACCP through SGS will help your organisation develop and improve performance.
- Your HACCP food management safety system certificate from SGS enables you to demonstrate high levels of food safety when bidding for international contracts or expanding locally to accommodate new business.
- Regular assessment performed by SGS helps you to continually monitor your management system and processes. This improves the reliability of your internal operations to meet customer requirements, as well as overall performance. You will also most likely gain a significant improvement in staff motivation, commitment and understanding of their responsibility concerning food safety.
Why SGS?
To date, thousands of small, medium and international companies use SGS as their certifying body to perform the audit of their food safety management systems against various international standards, including HACCP, confirming SGS as the world’s preferred certifying body in food safety. As the world’s leading testing, inspection, verification and certification body, SGS has the unrivalled experience in the area of food safety and quality, with capabilities ranging across diverse and complex supply chains.
Our global brand is built upon our presence in 75 countries with over 80 000 certificates globally. SGS is the world’s leading certification body in diverse standards, including ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:2004 and food safety management systems.
Audits are a tool to improve the efficiency of your processes, i.e. increase your profitability. Audit services are not only a measurement tool, but also a building block of your continuous improvement systems. They recognise the efforts of all, show how far the organisation has already travelled and materialise the impetus of your business. The SGS approach is transparent and logical, which is why we become your partner towards improvement and in meeting your business objectives.
We do not turn audits into the simple filling-in of a checklist and checking of your document systems. Our auditors are trained the “SGS way“, they listen to the client and are objective and ethical at all times.
Our network of experienced auditors identifies the Corrective Action Requirements (CAR) in a consistent manner, globally. Our auditors are trained on multiple standards and can perform integrated audits when needed.
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