International Food Standard

Preferred applications

The International Food Standard represents a consistent evaluation system for manufacturers and dealers active in the food sector. It ensures fulfilment of customer requirements and eliminates liability in the scope of globalisation of product supplies.
Version 5 of the IFS Standard published in january 2008 focuses on food safety, HACCP, hygiene, and operating environment within manufacturing processes. Requirements to be observed by the companies in later audits are specified, in order to achieve a specific certification level.

Ten K.O. evaluation criteria have been specified in the Version 5.

• Responsibility of management
• Monitoring the CCP's HACCP analysis
• Personal hygiene
• Raw material specifications
• Product specifications (Recipe management)
• Foreign bodies contamination prevention
• Traceability
• Internal Audits.
• Measures for recall must be in place.
• Corrective measure

Our products provide support in essential issues when fulfilling these criteria. Our systems operate as integrated comprehensive solutions. SPC control systems, visualisation systems, batch systems or complete MES – systems are used according to the requirement profile.
Tracing, limit value monitoring, examinations, corrective measures, and documentation of all activities are permanent components of all our solutions.

How it works

Our solutions utilise the following functional components for comprehensive tracing of goods throughout the entire production cycle:

• Integrated electronic tracing systems for unit packs, e.g. containers, storage of the complete data in a data  base and/or on an RFID chip
• Labelling of all produced unit packs with bar code print for later identification and examination, EAN - marking  is also possible
• Documentation of the entire production process, status information for all batches, electronic batch reports,  audit trail
• Forward and back tracing, from the final product to the supplier batch or from the supplier batch to the final  product
• Archiving of the data for the entire accountable period Kastor production system and ManDos manual weighing system, each equipped with an integrated batch tracing system