86 FOOD SCIENCE
ISO 22000 and integrated informatics
Trish Meek reveals the business best practices to meet global food safety regulatory challenges.
Colin Thurston reveals the business best practices to meet global food safety regulatory challenges.
Colin Thurston reveals the business best practices to meet global food safety regulatory challenges.
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n KPMG’S 2014 Food, Drink and Consumer Goods Industry Outlook Survey, 22% of the senior managers questioned said that “staying ahead of or navigating changes in the regulatory environment” would consume most of their time in the coming 12 months. Nearly 20% said that geographic expansion would be one of the primary areas of investment in the coming months. Taken together, these two data points echo a common food industry refrain: we want to expand internationally, but we’re increasingly aware of the difficulties and costs of doing so from a regulatory standpoint.
Navigating regulations and requirements on a country-by- country basis is fraught with challenges: some countries are exceptionally strict and onerous while others are developing and the regulatory framework is far from mature. So what’s the best
path forward? Although there’s no single formula for success, one path forward for participants in the global food supply chain is to rely on accepted international standards such as ISO 22000 as best practices for their lab operations.
Derived from the ISO 9000 family of quality management systems, ISO 22000 incorporates principles from the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) methodology and other proven food safety systems. It is widely considered the gold standard globally for food safety monitoring. In fact, the US Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) has modelled much of its recent requirements legislation around the ISO 22000 and HACCP guidelines. As such, ISO is an ideal starting point for companies like those in the KPMG survey that are eager to grow but that also fear “staying
ahead” will consume too much of their time.
Data management Although some food and beverage companies still rely on manual data capture in some parts of their laboratory operations, spreadsheets and manual data transcription will prove incapable of handling the large volume of data that must be discoverable and auditable for ISO 22000 compliance – or as evidence to any other regulatory authority, such as under the European Union Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002, or US FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. Only an enterprise-level integrated informatics solution can handle the volume of data required of the latest food safety regulations in a secure and defensible manner.
Laboratory information management systems (LIMS)
SampleManager 11 is built with enhanced data mining and tracking capabilities, including user-defined toolbars, shortcut keys and Explorer-conditional formatting.
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