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Food Safety Accreditation
During 2011 the IOAS has signed a cooperation agreement
with the American National Standards Institute -
www.ansi.org in order to be able to
provide a range of food safety programmes to IOAS clients.
In cooperation with ANSI (as
the accreditation body)
the IOAS can now offer ISO Guide 65 accreditation to the following food
safety programme scopes:
The offer is limited to current IOAS clients and new
client certification bodies also active in the field of organic
certification.
To provide efficiency and cost effectiveness in delivery,
the assessment procedure for all schemes is combined with the current IOAS
evaluation process, with several modifications as follows:
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The evaluation process is carried out by the IOAS,
and the accreditation decision is made by ANSI;
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The applicant certification bodies for all the above
schemes need to have signed a license agreement with the scheme owner
prior to application to the IOAS;
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Applicant certification bodies
that already hold ISO Guide 65 accreditation with the
IOAS may add any of the above schemes as an extension of scope;
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Certification bodies apply to the IOAS, by using the
normal application forms indicating the desired scope of ISO65
accreditation and where appropriate the detailed programme scopes;
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The application process also includes completion and
submitting to the IOAS the ANSI application form, which is then reviewed
by ANSI. Additional questions may be asked by ANSI, before decision to
proceed with evaluation;
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Upon review of the pre-visit screening of the
certification body quality system, ANSI defines the number of days for
the site visit;
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All other accreditations with the IOAS occurs over a
4 year cycle, while the ANSI accreditation is a 2 year cycle so an
adjustment of assessment and surveillance schedule is taken into
account.
The standard IOAS fee schedule
is adjusted to take account of the involvement of ANSI.
Please contact Gergana Nentcheva for
more information at nentcheva@ioas.org
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Last updated:
21/02/2012
IOAS official
notices
Gergana Nentcheva - Food
Safety
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