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Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), a need for certification [HACCP MS]Favorably, the food and drink industry, where safety is essential, progresses to the proactive approach, and is departing from the food safety reactive approach. At BRS we have
establish the very well accepted acronym "PERM" (Prevent - Eliminate - Reduce - Mitigate, if can't be done then get our of the business). In addressing food safety within the food and drink supply
chain, The USDA, FDA CBP C-TPAT has emphatically adopted and requires "Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP)". The FDA has require HACCP within the low-acid canned food
industry and the seafood, and expands in requiring HACCP for importers and organizations directly in the food supply within the USA with HACCP requirements whether large, medium, and small business, with very small business
implementation require to take effect by January 20, 2004. The USDA, which regulates meat and poultry, equally requiring competence and implementation of HACCP for the meat and poultry processing plants since January 1999.
HACCP continues as a tool to help protect the inadvertent inclusion of food hazards, whether biological, chemical or physical in the food supply chain, and equally including both domestic and imported food products.
Further, The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Institute of Medicine issued a congressionally mandated report in April 2003, which stated that meat and poultry regulation in the development of
food-safety criteria should be science based and tied to the public health objectives.
The basis for third-party certifications need to meet the impartiality and competence tests, which BRS meets as part of its accreditation in quality and risk management systems and as part of its Multilateral
Agreement (MLA). HACCP MS (HACCP Management System) certification serves as a recognition program for organizations to demonstrate competence in HACCP through an impartial internationally recognizable
third party, BRS. BRS is a truly legitimate US legal entity, which provides organizations to demonstrate food safety competence through HACCP MS locations extend from Asia Pacific, Euro Asia, and North
America. HACCP MS implementation requires consideration to 21 CFR 110, 123 and others. Visit
FDA State-of-the-art Approach to Food Safety, which BRS takes further by rigorous and stringent requirements that as well as protecting your brand, equally protects BRS as a brand in food
safety. Organizations such as Coca-Cola, Nestle, ConAgra Foods... and other name brands participate in BRS programs worldwide. |
