Certification:
Certification of the HACCP management system / Voluntary assessment
Basis for Certification (certification standard):
HACCP TÜV MS Standard
Standard owner:
TÜV SÜD Management Service GmbH
What does the HACCP TÜV MS standard cover?
The HACCP TÜV MS standard defines the requirements for a HACCP management system (management system for hazard analysis and critical control points) and for the critical control points of an organisation. These requirements include, but are not limited to:
- Document and information management
- Evaluation of the HACCP management system and improvement actions
- Provision of the necessary resources
- Implementation and control of measures of basic hygiene (preventive programmes)
- Interdisciplinary and expert HACCP team
- Product descriptions and intended use of products
- Flow charts of manufacturing processes
- HACCP hazard analysis
- Definition of critical control points including critical thresholds
- Definition of corrective actions to be taken if thresholds are exceeded
- Verification measures for the HACCP system
What does “certification” and/or the issue of a certification mark for HACCP?
- The customer has submitted to voluntary assessment (audit) according to defined criteria (certification standard).
- A certificate and/or the authorisation to use a certification mark is only issued if the assessment (audit) does not reveal any major nonconformities with the requirements of the certification standard.
- The certificates and/or certification marks are valid for a restricted period of time. Interested parties can check the validity of individual certificates in the certificate database of TÜV SÜD Management Service GmbH..
- To maintain certificate validity, the certificate holder must annually complete an announced audit with a positive result.
- Unannounced audits are possible in specific cases.
How do we audit?
Independent and qualified experts (auditors) apply the following auditing techniques:
Document review:
- Evaluation of hazard analysis, HACCP plan
- Inspection of product descriptions and specifications, flow charts
- Review of measures of basic hygiene, measures to control critical control points and corrective actions
On-site inspection of the premises:
- Inspection of all production and page-content areas of the organisation
- Interviews of employees of the organisation
- Comparison of the documentation against the actual processes
- Evaluation of the control of production, page-content and transport processes
What is beyond the scope of certification according to HACCP TÜV MS Standard?
- Certification according to HACCP TÜV MS Standard does not constitute product certification. Certification thus does not provide any direct statements on the quality of a product or service of the certified customer.
- Certification according to HACCP TÜV MS Standard does not mean that the company manufactures products or provides services of higher quality.
- Certification according to HACCP TÜV MS Standard does not ensure in each specific case that a product or service complies with customer requirements, even though this is one of the key objectives of the quality management system.
