Having a feed and food safety management system ensures that customers and consumers trust your company's capability to manage food safety related risks.
Purpose
When it comes to food products of animal origin, the animals’ feed is obviously a critical factor in ensuring safety of the final consumer product.
Specific standards which are relevant for feed production, transportation and trade, and feed premixes and production of additives, have been developed to guarantee the safe impact of the feed.
In essence, certification to these standards involves the application of the HACCP and GMP principles with the prospective human consumption of the final products in mind.
Benefits
Animal feed form a major link in the animal production chain, before the final product reaches the consumers.
Consumers of meat, milk, and eggs expect the industry and the retail trade to supply safe, high-quality feed products.
The GMP/PDV (Good Manufacturing Practice) regulation applies to producers of and traders in compound feeds, animal feeds, premixes and additives, as well as transport, storage and transhipment, cultivation, storage and feeding at the livestock farm.
In addition, laboratories which carry out analyses may be certified.
HACCP is a risk management tool specifically designed for the food industry in order to assure food safety. It is applicable to the feed industry too, and it is a structured, preventive approach to food safety to optimise efforts to provide the consumer with safe food. Certification to this standard changes your company approach from retroactive quality testing to a preventive way of thinking.
ISO 22000 is a fundamental standard that enables any company to identify relevant risks and to manage them efficiently, both from a food safety and cost effectiveness point of view.
It provides a systematic approach covering any segment of the food chain, including restaurants and catering, packaging, equipment and chemicals manufacturers and service providers such as pest control, laundry, transport and logistics.
FAMI-QS: applicable to feed premixes and production of additives, was developed to guarantee the safe impact of the feed on the final food products (Feed for Food).