Food Safety

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• Food Safety Sustainability
• Who is driving the market?
• Which standards are accepted by producers and
  retail?
• ASSOCHAM 2009
• Dr. S. N. Kumar L

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FOODCERT INDIA PROFILE
FoodCert India Pvt. Ltd. (FCI) working under the
offices of IsaCert-BV, The Netherland, is
independent legal entity in India. Exclusively
Focusing on the Quality Standards related to
entire food chain Farm to Plate, offering both
National and International Accreditations.
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• Who is driving the market for food safety
  certification?
• CIES ( Comité International dEnterprises
  Succursales International Committee of Retail
  Chains). The CIES has a permanent committee for
  Food Safety issues GFSI ( Global Food Safety
  Initiative). This committee approves standards on
  behalf of the international retail that meet the
  requirements for the (private) labels of the
  retail. The goal of this committee is to ensure
  confidence in delivering safe food to consumers.
• ISO 22000 this standard is introduced in 2005
  and completed in 2007. Mainly large (multi site)
  companies are seeking certification against the
  ISO 22000 standard.

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Expectations, Roles Responsibilities of stake
holders

• Standard owners
• Exchange information
• Greater transparency in food industry
• Continuous improvement
• Retailers
• Improved production standards in factories
• Improved information on food safety schemes
• Exchange of best practices knowledge
• Manufacturers
• Reduced number of audits
• Clarity of food safety scheme requirements
• Time resources to invest in food quality and
  safety levels
• Certification Bodies
• Information exchanges
• Improved auditor competences
• Improved audit quality
• Accreditation Bodies
• Information on best practices
• Knowledge sharing

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• Private Label Situation in Europe
• Definition
• Private label is a brand owned by the retail
  company
• Consequences for Retailers
• Strong communication to the final consumer
• Consequently increase of legal responsibilities
  for retailers which can also effect the retail
  brand image
• Retailer becomes, for the final consumer, a
  product manufacturer

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• Which standards are approved by CIES / GFSI?
• IFS Food
• BRC Food
• Dutch HACCP
• SQF 2000
• (pre - approved)
• FSSC / ISO 22000
• (developing a mutual bench mark standard for the
  agricultural branch)
• 6. GlobalGAP

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• IFS
• Introduced by the German but adopted by the
  French and Italian retailers
• Focus on a strong market position
• Aldi is forcing the actions to the suppliers
• Stronger control of the auditing process
  qualification of CBs and auditors and database
  of audits reports

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• IFS
• The IFS is divided into four main parts- Part
  1 audit protocol (scoring of the audit, audit
  duration, different steps from the audit until
  the issue of the certificate, etc.)

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• IFS
• Part 2 technical requirements. The check-list
  contains 250 requirements, which deal with five
  main subjects
• 1. Senior management responsibility2. Quality
  management system3. Resource management4.
  Production process5. Measurements, analyses,
  improvements

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• IFS
• Part 3 requirements for accreditation bodies,
  certification bodies and auditors

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• IFS
• Part 4 reporting (layout of audit report,
  certificate, etc.)

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• IFS
• SCORING
• Each requirement to be graded as,
• A Full compliance 20 points
• B Almost Full compliance 15
• points
• C Small part of requirement is in
• compliance 5 points
• D Requirement not been
• implemented 0 points

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• IFS
• MAJOR
• Where there is substantial failure of the
  requirement of the standard which include safety
  and legal requirements of the originating and
  destination countries.
• A major will extract 15 of the total possible
  score.

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IFS KOs are specific requirements of the standard
10 requirements Senior Management
Responsibility, CCP monitoring Personnel
hygiene Raw material specifications Finished
product (recipe) specifications) Foreign body
management Traeability Internal audits Recall
and withdrawal Corrective Actions
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• IFS
• KO requirement SCORING
• A Full compliance 20 points
• B Almost Full compliance 15
• points
• C Small part of requirement is in
• compliance 5 points
• D Requirement not been
• implemented- 50 of possible total amount
  of points subtracted.

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• IFS
• Certification Levels
• Total Score
• gt95 Higher Level
• between gt75 lt 95 Foundation

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• BRC
• Introduced by British Retail Parties
• Focus on insurance/ legal actions to
  certification bodies / liability
• Stronger control contracts between BRC and CBs
  since July 2008, database, KPI monitoring.
• British retailers prefer UKAS accreditation and
  UK certification bodies hidden list of retailers

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• BRC
• Laid out in 7 Chapters
• Senior Management Commitment continual
  improvement.
• Food Safety Plan-HACCP
• Food Safety and Quality Management System
• Site Standards
• Product Control
• Process Control
• Personnel.
• Each requirement is provided with the intent
• statement

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• BRC
• Fundamental Requirements
• 1 Senior Management Commitment continual
  
• improvement.
• 2 Food Safety Plan-HACCP
• 3.5 Internal audits
• 3.8 Corrective and preventive actions
• 3.9 Traceability
• 4.3.1 Layout, product flow and segregation
• 4.9 House keeping and Hygiene
• 5.2 Handling of specific materials allergens,
  GMO
• 6.1 Control of operations
• 7.1 Training

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BRC Non Conformances Critical critical failure
of food safety and legal requirements. Major
Substantial failure of statement of intent of a
requirement or any clause of the
requirements And/or Situation observed raise
significant doubt about the conformity of the
product.
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BRC Non Conformances Minor Clause is not
fully met but observations does not raise
significant doubt about the conformity of the
product.
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BRC Certificate grades No major and 10 or fewer
minors A grade lt 1 Major and 10 or fewer minors
B Grade No major and 20 or fewer minors B
Grade 2 majors and 20 or fewer minors C
grade Fewer than 2 majors and up to 30 minors C
grade. For D grade no certificate is granted.

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BRC IF THE SURVEILLANCE REPEAT AUDIT NOT
CONDUCTED BEFORE THE DUE DATE RESULT IN A
MAJOR NC UNDER MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS.
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• What are the trends for Food Safety Certification
  in 2009?
• Agricultural Branch (Pre-Farm Gate)
• Leading position of GlobalGAP cooperation with
  CIES / GFSI, accepted by the international retail
  (recently also Wal Mart introduced GlobalGAP to
  their suppliers), life stock standards are
  gaining momentum.
• National (life stock) schemes are applying for a
  bench mark with GlobalGAP (i.e. IKB pig, IKB
  cattle, IKB poultry) among many other schemes)

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• What are the trends for Food Safety Certification
  in 2009?
• 2. Processing and trade (Post-Farm Gate)
• - Market (retail GFSI approved) driven
  standards strengthen their market position (BRC
  food and IFS food)
• Number of Dutch HACCP certification diminishes
• Role of SQF 2000 (Mainly American market) limited
• American retailers have now requested their
  suppliers for certification against GFSI approved
  standards. Wal Mart is the main driver in this
  market.
• Initiative of the Big Four (Nestlé, Danone,
  Unilever and Kraft) to approve the ISO 22000 as a
  GFSI standard. (note the ISO 22000 is converted
  into the FSSC 22000 standard to meet the GFSI
  requirements). Standard is now previously
  approved by GFSI.

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• What is sustainability and who is driving the
  market?
• Definition the long-term maintenance of
  wellbeing , which in turn depends on the
  wellbeing of the natural world and the
  responsible use of natural resources.
• Another definition Production of (food), with
  transparency of the Product (origin, raw
  materials), People (social compliance) and Planet
  (responsible use of natural resources).
• Companies (producers and retailers) are
  translating sustainable production / distribution
  of foodstuff into a their cooperate strategy
  Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

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• What is sustainability and who is driving the
  market?
• 4. Companies use sustainability / CSR to profile
  their identity and their products
• Unilever Growing for the future
• Egg producers huge variety of claims (free
  range, Omega 3, organic feed only etc)
• Production of Spanish strawberries sustainable
  use of water (Albert Heijn)
• The Body Shop free of animal testing
• McDonalds climate counts
• Marks Spencer 5 year, 100 points ECO plan

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• What is sustainability and who is driving the
  market?
• 5. No common push of the international retail
  retailers follow their own CSR-policy
• 6. NGO / consumers are demanding for more
  transparency (origin of food, credibility of
  product claims, social compliance respect the UN
  conventions)

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• What is sustainability and who is driving the
  market?
• 7. Many initiatives for developing standards
• Retail driven
• Government
• NGO
• Branch organizations
• So far, no clear convergence towards global
  standards for product identity, people (social
  compliance) and planet (environment)

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• What is sustainability and who is driving the
  market?
• 8. A few examples
• Product identity
• Huge variety of organic labels (note EU standard
  for minimum requirements for organic standards is
  available).
• GMO-free (i.e. Basel protocol)
• Health claims EU has started to implement
  legislation regarding health claims.

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• What is sustainability and who is driving the
  market?
• 8. A few examples
• Social Compliance
• SA 8000 Social Accountability standard including
  certification
• Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI)
  many European retailers are member of BSCI. In
  the next year BSCI compliance is also requested
  from food producers, according the policy of
  leading retail parties (Ahold, Metro)
• Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI). Main promoter
  is TESCO.
• Fair Trade products Max Havelaar, UTZ

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• What is sustainability and who is driving the
  market?
• 8. A few examples
• Planet (environment)
• Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) sustainable
  fishing of wild fish (accepted by most European
  retailers Lidl is one of the main drivers)
• Government (Dutch) maatlat duurzame
  (melk)veehouderij
• Round Table Responsible Palm Oil
• Round Table Responsible Soy
• Rain Forest Alliance

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• What is Required for Indian Processor?
• To be in compliance with applicable
  statutory/regulatory requirements of country of
  origin and destination countries.
• Properly identified and implemented HACCP based
  Food Safety System with applicable Pre Requisite
  Program Support.
• Commitment and sense of belongingness at all
  levels of the organization top to bottom.
• Total transparency of the systems.
• Respecting men and nature.
• Conceptualization of Food Safety Assurance as the
  main product and profit as a by-product.

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Thanks you for the opportunity and
listening! Dr. S. N. Kumar L Manager
Certifications FoodCert India drkumar_at_foodcert.in