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GFSI Guidance Document Sixth Edition Issue 2 Version 6.1

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Guidance Document Full Version

Guidance Document: Overview

Guidance Document Part I: The Benchmarking Process

Specifies the process by which food safety schemes may gain recognition and gives guidance to these schemes covering:

  • the requirements for the key steps in the GFSI benchmarking process,
  • the systems and procedures relating to the GFSI benchmarking process.
  • the requirements for selection for the GFSI Benchmark Committee members,

Guidance Document Part II: Requirements for the Management of Schemes

Specifies the requirements to be put in place by a food safety scheme seeking recognition by GFSI covering:

  • requirements for eligibility of a food safety scheme to be considered for benchmarking by GFSI,
  • requirements for food safety scheme ownership and management,
  • requirements for food safety scheme supporting systems,
  • requirements for continuing recognition by GFSI, if recognition status is granted.

Guidance Document Part III: Scheme Scope and Key Elements

For each GFSI scope of recognition, this section defines:

  • Food safety management systems requirements,
  • Good Practice requirements,
  • HACCP or HACCP based requirements,

to be in place in the scheme’s standard.

Guidance Document Part IV: Glossary of Terms

Download the tracked changes version of Guidance Document Sixth Edition to show the transition from Version 6.0 (January 2011) to Version 6.1 (August 2011)

Part II - Requirements for the Management of Schemes

Part III - Scheme Scope and Key Elements

Part IV - Glossary of Terms

GFSI Guidance Document Scope

The scope of the Guidance Document Sixth Edition will ultimately cover the whole of the food and feed supply chain and associated services. The current version of the GFSI Guidance Document Sixth Edition Version 6.1 covers the following scopes of recognition:

AI Farming of Animals
AII AII Farming of Fish
BI Farming of Plants
BII Farming of Grains and Pulses
C Animal Conversion (included in August 2011)
D Pre Processing Handling of Plant Products
EI Processing of Animal Perishable Products
EII Processing of Plant Perishable Products
EIII Processing of Animal and Plant Perishable Products (Mixed Products)
EIV Processing of Ambient Stable Products
L Production of (Bio) Chemicals
M Production of Food Packaging (included in August 2011)

Key elements will be drafted for the following scopes of recognition over the course of 2012 and 2013:

F Production of Feed  
G Catering  
H Retail / Wholesale  
I Provision of Food Safety Services  
JI Provision of Transport and Storage Services (Perishable Food and Feed)  
JII Provision of Transport and Storage Services (Ambient Stable Food and Feed)  
K Manufacture of Food Processing Equipment
N Food Broker / Agent