IS 16021 : 2012 Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) - Requirements for Organizations in the Food Processing Sector

Reaffirmed 2023

1 SCOPE

This standard specifies the requirements for good manufacturing practices, regardless of their size to implement systems that would consistently contribute to producing safe and quality products. All requirements of this standard are generic and intended to be applicable to organizations belonging to the food processing sector.

Food processing sector includes the food processors, suppliers of equipment, raw materials, ingredients, packing materials, processing aids, pesticides, fertilizers and cleaning chemicals. However, it does not include primary production, transportation, storage and retail.

This standard specifies requirements to enable an organization,

a) to plan, implement, operate, maintain and update Good Manufacturing Practices, aimed at providing quality products that, according to their intended use are safe for the consumer;

b) to demonstrate compliance with good hygiene practices and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements;

c) to effectively communicate food safety and quality issues to suppliers, customers and relevant interested parties in the food chain;

d) to facilitate the organization towards achievement of the stated food safety and quality policy and objectives;

e) to demonstrate such conformity to relevant interested parties; and

f) to seek certification or registration of its Good Manufacturing Practices by an external organization or make a self assessment of conformity to this Indian Standard.

NOTE - Examples of food safety management system are good agricultural practices, good aquaculture practices, good animal husbandry practices, good hygiene practices, good manufacturing practices, good retail practices, hazard analysis and critical control points and food safety management systems.

2 REFERENCES

The following standards contain provisions which through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this standard. At the time of publication, the editions indicated were valid. All standards are subject to revision and parties to agreements based on this standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent editions of the standards indicated below:

7688 Code of practice for labelling of prepackaged foods:

(Part 1) : 1975 General guidelines

(Part 2) : 1976 Guidelines on claims

(Part 3) : 1976 Nutritional labelling

IS/ISO 9000 : 2005 Quality management systems - Fundamentals and vocabulary

10500 : 1991 Drinking water - Specification (first revision)

IS/ISO 22000 : 2005 Food safety management systems - Requirements for any organization in the food chain