2- Factory Assessment MethodologyThe IFFO RS standard to reduce increasing audit duplication required that all factories be assessed and certified to an International Feed Ingredient Standard (IFIS) Good Manufacturing Standard e.g. GMP+ or FEMAS or to another standard that has been benchmarked as being equivalent.Version 2 of the IFFO RS standard still proposes to accept these standards but will review their requirements and develop a set of GMP conformance criteria that will still promote safe production of marine ingredients but will also look how these may reduce the environmental impact of the factory.Factories that currently hold an IFIS standard certificate will only be required to be assessed on those identified unique IFFO RS GMP factory conformance criteria that are not currently covered within an IFIS standard. Factories that have no IFIS standard will not be required to get the IFIS standard now as a pre-requisite, but will be assessed to all the new IFFO RS GMP factory conformance criteria.IFFO RS has conducted a risk assessment and this has provided evidence that not all the requirements of the IFIS are completely relevant for the fishmeal manufacturing factory and do not think that the development of this standard is as up to date on environmental issues that will be required by this industry in the forthcoming years.From a SWOT analysis conducted by the IFFO RS secretariat it was concluded that some of the challenges encountered by only recognising the IFIS standard is that the accessibility to the IFFO RS standard is potentially reduced, there is a potential reduction of control by IFFO RS secretariat (full responsibility of IFFO RS governing body for defining the normative reference for responsible marine ingredients), IFIS standards are not currently recognised in the value chain of fish oil for human consumption and there may a risk of losing an opportunity for gaining future ISEAL compliance. Due to the results of this SWOT analysis it was decided to consider the development of revised GMP clauses into the next version of the IFFO RS standard.
The removal of the IFIS standard as a pre-requisite requirement will also remove a potential barrier for marine ingredients producer factories from entering into the programme, as they will now not be dependent on another standard programme to certify them before they can be considered for IFFO RS certification.
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