Managing Food Safety for Packaging
Suppliers of packaging materials to the food industry must ensure that their products are safe from contaminants throughout the manufacturing process. Therefore, the Safe Supply of Affordable Food Everywhere (SSAFE) sponsored the development of The Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 223 designed to address prerequisite programs (PRPs) of food safety for food and beverage design and manufacture. PAS 223 was developed to be used with ISO 22000, the food safety management system standard. It specifies requirements to help manufacturers control contamination in the process and manufacture of packaging materials.

Based on input from the world’s leading food manufacturers, PAS 223 has, as its core objective, to manage and mitigate packaging risks. As many of these organizations work to provide safe, quality food and beverages for consumption, it became clear that the same intense focus must be given to the packaging that surrounds those products.

Benefits

• Reduction of audits
• Increased control and transparency of processes
• Increased confidence from stakeholders
• Reduced risk
• Increased cost savings
• Improved supply chain management

With attention given to recent food scares in Europe and Asia, suppliers of packaging materials will need to provide evidence of conformity to existing legal requirements, as well as, customer requirements.

UL DQS is global provider of management system assessments with local resources that have the expertise needed to help you realize the most value from your system. We are able to provide food and beverage packaging manufacturers with industry-leading expert assessments for their food safety systems incorporating FSSC 22000 and PAS 223.