Feed
Safety
Assurance
Certification GMP+
Market Advantage
Are you selling in a highly competitive market saturated with low-value low-quality feed products? Do you wish to penetrate the lucrative high-value EU feed market? These are business case questions that drive the thinking behind achieving GMP+ certification.
The GMP+ certification is a visible brand credential of your organization’s commitment to providing quality and safe animal feed products. From farm to table, quality meats, dairy, and egg products start with quality feed. The GMP+ scheme aims to provide a framework to address EU feed safety protocols. A GMP+ accredited independent certification body of your choice will assess and validate that your practices and processes meet the feed safety system principles to satisfy EU market entry requirements. Without this certification means forgoing the second largest feed market in the world.
Is It For Me?
The GMP+ feed safety assurance scheme is suitable for any size of business in the animal and pet feed supply chain. Whether you are a grower, processor, producer, storage and logistics provider, distributor, or trader, the principles of feed safety assurance are applicable. Adopted from ISO22000, which targets food safety, the GMP+ further refines the Hazard and Critical Control Points principles, traceability, monitoring, prerequisites programs, chain approach, and the Early Warning System towards feed supply chain.
How Much Time?
From ground zero, it typically requires about 6 months from project kick-off to attaining certification. Why 6 months?. 3 months is for management system development work and another 3 months for implementation. Certification bodies require at least 3 months of implementation data. You can compress the time if you develop and implement concurrently. For businesses upgrading their certification to the latest standard, completion time is about 3 months or less.
You may also need to consider other time dependencies such as staff learning curve, hardware, or software (if applicable) implementation.
How We Can Help
We can assist you in achieving certification from start to completion. Our consultancy program is modularized and flexible. Scroll below to read the highlights of the modules. You have the option to choose all the modules or pick the module that you need help with.
General Training Module
Awareness training is suited to give your team members an overview of the management standard. The learning objective is to understand the application of the management standard towards your business context.
Internal Auditing and auditor training is a critical requirement in the management standard. An annual audit of the implemented Management System is required. The internal audit training module is suited for your team of auditors. The learning objective is to understand the methodology of conducting an internal audit, from planning to reporting audit findings.
Technical Training Module
Managing feed safety hazards and compliance with EU feed quality requirements is essential for GMP+ certification. The learning objective is to understand concepts and identify and evaluate your business’s types of feed safety hazards and critical control points. You will also learn about the assessment methodology behind the feed safety risk strategy.
Some technical knowledge is required to meet essential elements of the standard. Rest assured that there are no complex concepts to grasp or complicated calculations needed.
Risk Inventory Module
Risk management is the cornerstone of the management standards. To a layman, understanding and identifying risk is a complex task. We can help you in this regard by taking over this task. Our risk assessment methodology is aligned with industry codes of practice and is acceptable for certification.
Here is what we will do:
Identify gatekeepers in feed material sourcing.
Identify feed safety hazards and critical control points (HACCP) in the procurement, manufacturing and logistic processes.
Evaluate the impacts or consequences of each identified risk.
Creating a feed safety register highlighting risks and impacts.
Recommend solutions to mitigate significant risks.
Policy and Procedure Module
Writing down your policies and procedures ensures continuity of practice. We can assist you in formulating your standard operating procedures (SOP). We conduct peer reviews of your SOPs for suitability and practicality in meeting the standard. We will also guide you during the implementation of your SOPs for fulfilling certification requirements.
Pre-Certification
Assessment Module
At the end of the implementation period, we will assess your readiness for the actual certification exercise. We will report and highlight areas for closure and improvements to be made before fixing a date with your appointed certification body.
Post-Certification Module
Our service does not end when your organization is certified. Maintaining the certified system through annual internal audits is mandatory over the three years of certification. If you are short on human resources or skillset, we provide contract internal audit services to help you maintain your certification.
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