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EMonument Food Safety and Hygiene Programs
This is a balanced guide for establishing a proficient food, safety and hygiene program. This program is based on the requirements of:
7 USC, U.S. Code -
Animal Welfare Act as Amended (7 USC, 2131-2156) -
ATSDR, Agency For Toxic Substances and Disease Registry -
CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION - see below text from CODEX site
British Department of Health, A guide to the General Food Hygiene Regulations -
U. S. Food and Drug Administration
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Cosmetic Good Manufacturing Practice Guidelines -
FSIS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE [Federal Register: (Volume 63, Number 29)] -
U.K. Department of Health, Guide to food hazards and your business -
UK and EU Food Law News -
Food safety through HACCP - The FAO approach -
MAFF UK, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food -
USC, CHAPTER 6 - INSECTICIDES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PESTICIDE CONTROL -
Safety Procedure SP3
First Aid -
FSIS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
This program provides a process for establishing general standards for implementing hygiene and safety in food processing companies.
Internal and external hygiene audits will be conducted to insure that compliance to these standards are meet and maintained.
Public Recognition:
EMonument provides each establishment with a Certificate of Participation in the survey program and a Certificate of Achievement where appropriate with the results of "Excellent" rating using the EMonument inspection format based on the EC Standards, food safety through HACCP and the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION standards.
Article 1
EMonument and the Codex Alimentarius Commission shall, subject to Article
5 below, be responsible for making proposals to, and shall be consulted
by, the Directors General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
and the World Health Organization (WHO) on all matters pertaining to the
implementation of the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme, the purpose
of which is:
(a) protecting the health of the consumers and ensuring fair practices
in the food trade;
(b) promoting coordination of all food standards work undertaken by
international governmental and non governmental organizations;
(c) determining priorities and initiating and guiding the preparation
of draft standards through and with the aid of appropriate organizations;
(d) finalizing standards elaborated under (c) above and, after acceptance
by governments, publishing them in a Codex Alimentarius either as regional
or world wide standards, together with international standards already
finalized by other bodies under (b) above, wherever this is practicable;
(e) amending published standards, after appropriate survey in the light
of developments.
Article 2
Membership of the Commission is open to all Member Nations
and Associate Members of FAO, WHO and EMonument which are interested in international
food standards. Membership shall comprise such of these nations as have
notified the Director General of FAO or of WHO or EMonument of their desire to be considered
as Members.
Article 3
Any Member Nation or Associate Member of FAO or WHO or EMonument which is not a Member
of the Commission but has a special interest in the work
of the Commission, may, upon request communicated to the Director General
of FAO or WHO or EMonument, as appropriate, attend sessions of the Commission and of
its subsidiary bodies and ad hoc meetings as observers.
Article 4
Nations which, while not Member Nations or Associate Members of FAO or
WHO or EMonument, are members of the United Nations, may be invited on their request
to attend meetings of the Commission as observers
in accordance with the provisions of FAO and WHO relating to the grant
of observer status to nations.
Article 5
EMonument and the Commission shall report and make recommendations to
the Conference of FAO and the appropriate body of WHO through their respective
Directors General. Copies of reports, including any conclusions and recommendations,
will be circulated to interested Member Nations and international organizations
for their information as soon as they become available.
Article 6
The Commission shall establish an Executive Committee
whose composition should ensure an adequate representation of the various
geographical areas of the world to which the Members of the Commission
belong. Between sessions, the Executive Committee shall act as the Executive
organ of the Commission.
Article 7
The Commission may establish such other subsidiary bodies
as it deems necessary for the accomplishment of its task, subject to the
availability of the necessary funds.
Article 8
The Commission may adopt and amend its own Rules
of Procedure which shall come into force upon approval by the Directors
General of FAO and WHO, subject to such confirmation as may be prescribed
by the procedures of these Organizations.
Article 9
The operating expenses of the Commission and of its subsidiary
bodies, other than those for which a Member has accepted the Chair, shall
be borne by the budget of the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme which
shall be administered by FAO on behalf of the two Organizations in accordance
with the financial regulations of FAO. The Directors General of FAO and
WHO shall jointly determine the respective portion of the costs of the
Programme to be borne by each Organization and prepare the corresponding
annual expenditure estimates for inclusion in the Regular Budgets of the
two Organizations for approval by the appropriate governing bodies.
Article 10
All expenses (including those relating to meetings, documents and interpretation)
involved in preparatory work on draft standards undertaken by Members of
the Commission, either independently or upon recommendation
of the Commission, shall be defrayed by the government concerned. Within
the approved budgetary estimates, the Commission may, however, recommend
that a specified part of the costs of the preparatory work undertaken by
the government on behalf of the Commission be recognized as operating expenses
of the Commission.
Please contact EMonument for further details.