ISO 22000:2018 clause 6.3 Planning of Changes
Hi, ft.tgifSharing my organizational opinion, FSMS can be generalized into 4 activities including:1. Risk management2. Strategy management3. Resourcing management4. Food safety managementAny change will have a chance to impact all of these management activities.Based on your situation (soy lecithin to sunflower lecithin), the example as following:1. Risk management for the changing need to be done including:a. Determination of internal/external issuesb. Identification of interested parties and their needs and expectationsc. Risk assessment that might impact the FSMS strategy2. The changing activity needs to be consistent with the food safety policy and objectives. Put this change into the internal audit focus, and reporting for the changing activities in the management review meeting.3. Supplier assessment needs to be done if it is a new ingredient for the company. Any resources needed for the sunflower lecithin, including equipment/tool/device, storage conditions, training etc.4. Food safety management:a. Establishing sunflower lecithin specificationb. Retaining lab inspection report based on the local regulationc. Coding the sunflower lecithin for the traceabilityd. Completing the supplier information detail for emergency contact and supplier controle. Revised the HACCP plan relevant to the sunflowerf. Any specific instrument need for the sunflower lecithin, I think this is not an important point for this change, maybe.g. Validation and verification need to be done for the PRP and HACCP relevant to the changeAll of the above need to be considered but not limited to it, and then you might have enough confidence to declare the changes are not impact the integrity of the FSMS of the company.
Thanks for the detailed answer. However, I still don't really understand, what does it actually mean when the integrity of the FSMS is impacted? If I have already considered all the above items, and for example I need to establish the material specification for sunflower lecithin, does this mean that the continued integrity of my FSMS is impacted?
Hi ft.tgif,
For your situation changing the soy lecithin into sunflower lecithin, everything you have done to the soy lecithin, all need to do again. And this will contain a lot of things.