Extending scope of a BRC Food System to meet ISO 22000 requirements
Any help appreciated.
Many thanks,
Brendon
I think it is not a goos idea to write a different Manual, you can use the same BRC manual and add requirements of the ISO-22000 standard. A food safety manual is not mandatory for ISO-22000. And there is only a few requirements that you have to add (op PRP's (7.5), some issues in the Management Review (5.8), modify you verification planning (7.8), and maybe others).My question is as the title says how do we extend our BRC system to meet the requirements of ISO 22000? In fact is it possible to extend or fill in the gaps or is it a different enough system that we need to document an ISO 22000 manual from scratch. BRC seems very comprehensive and I cannot imagine we are too far away. Can anyone provide advice esp. anyone who has been down the same road? Looking for clues.
Any help appreciated.
Many thanks,
Brendon
Thank you for your prompt and helpful response Erasmo, it really does help me. I notice you are from Mexico, do you supply to the UK / are you a user of the BRC and ISO 22000? Not needing a seperate system gives me comfort, on the subject of extending BRC to close the gaps you have given me 7.5, 5.8 and 7.8 to investigate but I'm still somewhat concerned with the "maybe others" comment. Can you close the gap a little more for me please? Once again thank you for your help so far.I think it is not a goos idea to write a different Manual, you can use the same BRC manual and add requirements of the ISO-22000 standard. A food safety manual is not mandatory for ISO-22000. And there is only a few requirements that you have to add (op PRP's (7.5), some issues in the Management Review (5.8), modify you verification planning (7.8), and maybe others).
Regards,
Brendon
There are many similarities between the 2 standards so you don't need another manual- you should have manual for your business which complies with the various standards, not the other way around.
Many of the gaps between BRC v4 and ISO22000 have been filled with BRC v5 (I was on the working group) .
HACCP and communication may require some additional attention in particular.
In order to avoid unnecessary pain in this type of situation, I recommend using a particular electronic quality management system that allows you to associate documents with different standards and facilitates upgrades to the same standard , as well as the plethora of other benefits from general transparency of quality performance management (including : document control, non-conformance management & training linked to system changes).
If you would like more help, please contact me. I'm sure I can help.
Regards,
Simon