LRQA, along with leading food manufacturers and retailers like Kraft, Danone, McDonald’s, and Unilever, are currently developing an additional form of assurance for company’s food supply chain issues.
The new specification — PAS 220 — is intended to work in conjunction with the ISO22000 global standard for food safety. it looks at harmonizing and extending existing procedures for managing these processes.
The PAS 220 covers input areas such as manufacturing site layouts, water and energy use, and prevention of cross-contamination as well as output issues such as bioterrorism, food defense, and product-recall procedures.
With recent food safety scares (many from China) still fresh in consumers’ minds, the PAS 220 is well-placed to be the next logical step in assuring them of what they are eating and how it has been produced.