| Completion
of Assessment and Registration of Food Safety Management System |
Hikari Miso Co., Ltd. has completed assessment
and registration of DIS22000, according to the standard written document
of DIS22000 Food Safety Management Program, which is in the drafting
stage to be standardized by International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) next fall.
In recent years, as a response to escalating interest of consumers
toward food safety, each food manufacturer has been taking measures
to communicate to consumers how they are delivering safe food products,
such as ISO9001 Quality Management System, introduction of HACCP system,
Installation of trace ability system, etc.
Under such circumstance, at International Organization for Standardization
(ISO), which standardize measures that can be accepted internationally
has been preparing ISO22000 Food Safety Management System standardization,
as a new measure in reference to the food safety.
It is scheduled to be issued next fall. We were adopting the hygienic
management method of HACCP System since 1998, as an approach to food
safety, however, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare had only limited
number of 5 categories of industry, such as milk/dairy products, soft
drinks, meat products, fish sausage products, and retort pouch products,
to be recognized. Therefore, we were moving ahead in the form of self-declaration.Since
ISO registered DIS (Draft-International-Standard), which is the drafting
document of ISO22000 standardization in June, our company had decided
to develop existing HACCP system into food safety management system
that is based on this DIS22000.
We went through screening in July by the Assessment and Registration
Division of Japanese Standards Association Foundation, according to
DIS22000 as the baseline document, and we completed the registration
on September 10.
We were able to complete the registration shortly after DIS became
official, thanks to the Assessment department of Japanese Standards
Association, that does assessment of our ISO9001&14001. They had
suggested our company to go through screening during DIS stage, before
ISO22000 was issued. |
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◆Name of Registrant: Hikari
Miso Co., Ltd.
◆Applicable Standard: ISO/DIS22000: 2004
| ◆Extent of Registration： |
(1)Production of rice miso, mixed miso, instant miso at the Iijima Green Plant. |
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(2)Production of rice miso, mixed miso (limited to process after secondary
fermentation) at the Head Office Plant. |
◆Registration Date: September 10, 2004
◆Assessment & Registration Organization:
Japanese Standards Association Foundation |
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