From January 5 to 6, 2022, under the company’s arrangements, an internal audit of the food safety management system was organized and conducted by the internal audit team over two days. This internal audit was divided into two teams, consisting of 9 FSSC 22000 internal auditors from the company, who conducted internal audits on departments covered by the food safety management system, including the production department, R&D department, quality control department, sales department, procurement department, office, and engineering department.
On January 5, 2022, the first meeting of the internal audit for the food safety management system for the year 2021 was held. The company’s management representative and Deputy General Manager Ye Wuxia attended the meeting and gave a speech, along with the heads of the audited departments and audit team members.
Figure 1: Photo from the first meeting
Ye Wuxia proposed three requirements for the internal audit work: First, fully recognize the purpose and significance of this audit, conduct the audit carefully and diligently, and continuously promote the company's food safety management level and quality awareness; second, clarify the key points of the audit to achieve the expected goals; third, the audit team members should conduct the audit comprehensively and rigorously, and all relevant departments should actively cooperate with the audit and ensure follow-up rectification, collectively enhancing the overall food safety management level of the company, laying a solid foundation for future third-party supervision audits and second-party factory audits.
The audit team introduced that the main basis for this internal audit of the food safety management system is ISO 22000:2018, ISO/TS 22002-1, FSSC 22000 (V5.1) additional requirements, relevant laws and regulations, and other requirements. The audit scope covers the development, production, and sales of the company’s existing products, including instant tea, matcha, ultra-fine tea powder, juice powder, chrysanthemum powder solid beverages, bagged tea, flavored tea, tea (packaging), and solid beverages (others), and an explanation of the audit plan was provided.
Figure 2: Photos from the audit
At the final meeting on January 6, 2022, Deputy General Manager Ye Wuxia fully affirmed the work of the audit team, emphasizing that food safety is a critical matter. The company will continue to provide resource support for food safety management, encouraging all teams to speak freely about food safety risks and shortcomings identified during the audit process, collaboratively enhancing food safety management, and contributing ideas for the effective operation and continuous improvement of the company’s food safety management system. It is also hoped that everyone can use this internal audit as an opportunity to better launch the company's food safety management for 2022.