PAS 85:2000

A quality management system to ensure the integrity and traceability of primary products in the agri-food chain. | Status: Withdrawn

1 Scope This PAS specifies requirements for a quality management system to enable an organization to ensure the integrity and traceability of primary products in the agri-food chain in order to assure food organizations of the provenance of food raw materials used in their operations. It applies to those food safety and quality issues or production aspects over which the organization wishes to demonstrate effective control. It does not itself state specific production performance criteria or product attributes. This PAS is applicable to any organization that wishes to:

• • implement and maintain a product integrity management system;
• • assure itself of its conformance with its stated policy;
• • demonstrate such conformance to others.

This PAS is applicable to any aspect of the production or condition of primary products over which the organization wishes to demonstrate effective control, including for example one or more of the following items: food safety issues, food quality attributes, contaminants, genetically modified organisms, organic or other production practices, ethical and/or religious issues, animal welfare and geographical origin. This PAS covers all agri-food sector activities, including base input suppliers (for example, seeds or animals and crop nutrients or animal feedstuffs) primary production (for example, crop and animal husbandry on farms and grower’s holdings) storage sites and other primary product handling, treatment or preparation facilities.

NOTE 1 All the requirements of this PAS are intended to be incorporated into any product integrity management system. The extent of the application will depend on factors such as the nature of the production activities and the nature and size of the organization.

NOTE 2 The extent of the application of this PAS needs to be clearly defined by careful identification of the issue(s) over which the organization wishes to demonstrate effective control, including for example the codes of practice and industry guidelines to which the organization subscribes.