Following considerable publicity over the last few years, most companies are now aware that the badge of quality Approval enhances their image in the business community and with prospective. Customers demonstrating that a company has a quality culture to supply conforming products and services is an important management challenge. It is needless to say that an effective ISO Quality Management System 9001 can improve customer satisfaction, business with efficiency and achieve considerable cost savings whilst positively enhancing your company image. ISO 9001 is the only standard in the history of mankind that has a universal impact, Credibility and acceptability at the top of all standards issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ICTS has a very competent team of Professional to deliver quality auditing service at an affordable cost & this standard has major share in all our certifications.

An Environmental Management System (EMS) is a framework that allows an organization to consistently control its significant impacts on the environment and continually improve its business operations. ISO 14001 is an internationally accepted standard that defines the requirements for establishing and operating an Environmental Management System. The standard recognizes that organizations can be concerned about both their profitability and managing environmental impacts. ISO 14001 integrates motives and provides a refreshingly workable methodology to achieve an effective Environmental Management System. In practice, what the standard offers is the management of resource use and disposition. It’s recognized worldwide as a means to control costs, reduce risk and improve performance. It’s not just a ‘paper’ standard it demands the commitment of your whole organization, If the environment benefits and your profits are enhanced.

ISO 22000:2018 is an international standard that defines a food safety management system’s requirements covering all organizations in the food chain from (farm to fork). The standard combines generally recognized key elements to ensure food safety along. The food chain, including Interactive communication Systems management Control of food safety hazards through pre-requisite programs and HACCP, plans continual improvement and updating of the food safety management system. ISO 22000:2018 is a truly international standard suitable for any business in the entire food chain, including inter-related organizations such as producers of equipment, packaging material, cleaning agents, additives and ingredients. ISO 22000:2018 is also for companies seeking to integrate their quality management system, for example, ISO 9001:2015 and their food safety management system. MSCS has a reasonable client share for ISO 22000:2018 certification services to organizations of the food sector in Pakistan plus MSCS has very specialized experience of retail / catering and manufacturing 2nd party supplier and retail auditing, which is briefed in a relevant section later in profile.

The ISO 27001 standard was published in October 2005, essentially replacing the old BS7799-2 standard. It is the specification for ISMS, an Information Security Management System’ then again revised in year 2013. It was the first standard on High-level Annex SL structure published by ISO. BS7799 itself was a long-standing standard, first published in the nineties as a code of practice. As this matured, a second part emerged to cover management systems. It is this against which certification is granted. Today in excess of a thousand certificates are in place, across the world. The objective of the standard itself is to “provide a model for establishing, implementing. Operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining, and improving an Information Security Management System”. Regarding its adoption, this should be a strategic decision. The design and implementation of an organization’s ISMS are influenced by their needs and objectives, security requirements, the process employed and the size and structure of the organization. The standard defines its ‘process approach as the application of a system of processes within an organization, together with the identification and interactions of these processes, and their management”. It employs the PDCA, Plan-Do-Check-Act model for structuring he processes. Information is critical to the operation and perhaps even the survival of your organization. Being certified to ISO/IEC 27001 will help you to manage protect your valuable information assets. ISO/IEC 27001 is the only auditable international standard which defines the requirements for an Information Security Management System (ISMS). The standard is designed to ensure the selection of adequate and proportionate security controls. This helps you to protect your information assets and give confidence to any interested parties, especially your customers. The standard adopts a process approach for establishing, implementing, evaluation,, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining, and improving your ISMS.

ISO 13485 is required for a CE MARKING to design and/or produce devices for the medical industry. This important certification ensures the CE MARKING has effectively implemented and maintained its quality management system. It also ensures the CE MARKING implements certain controls and protocols to ensure product safety.

ISO 45001 is the sound solution to the ever-increasing challenge facing most organizations due to high injury and illness, lost workdays, increasing occupational health and safety regulations, large litigation / penalties, rising worker’s compensation costs, costly medical claims, worker retention, and employee satisfaction. Real-world operating experience shows workers’ compensation claims to be spiraling upward. Workers compensation medical claims have soared to a record 3.6 billion over the last decade. Traditional occupational health and safety management usually meant reacting to work related incidents rather than planning for the control. Work-related risks that compose ISO 45001:2018 certified organizations. Other costs facing organizations include but are not limited to investigation time, wages paid for lost time, clerical time, decreased output of the injured worker upon return, and the loss of business and goodwill. Organizations that have been the pioneers in attaining ISO 45001 already Report realized benefits of increased operational benefits reduction in lost workdays, fewer accidents and medical claims recognition by insurers and regulars, and improved worker retention and satisfaction. Employees have responded favorably to registered organization’s overt commitment to continued occupation health and safety improvements. Enhanced employee awareness and individual commitment to occupational health and safety have served as the basis for positive organizational change. Much of the improvement is attributed to employee education and awareness of safety issues and understanding. This increased awareness has been the key factor for ISO 45001 organizations saving in legal expenses, building damage, tool and equipment damage, product and material damage, and production delays and interruptions. Bottom line improvements for organizations that have a registered ISO management system include efficient organizational discipline, employee awareness, satisfaction, recognition by insurers, lower workers compensation and medical costs, and increased control of regulatory issues. DAS certification offers UKAS accredited certifications services (Accreditation Number 8327) for Occupational Health & Safety management system for all key hazardous areas.

ISO 15189:2022 specifies requirements for quality and competence in medical laboratories.
It can be used by medical laboratories in developing their quality management systems and assessing their own competence. It can also be used for confirming or recognizing the competence of medical laboratories by laboratory customers, regulating authorities and accreditation bodies.
Benefits/Importance of ISO 15189
ISO 15189 certification is important for laboratories because it helps to ensure they are providing accurate and reliable test results to their clients. This, in turn, helps build confidence in the laboratory and provide quality service to its patients or customers.

Fire extinguishing media — Foam concentrates
Specification for low-expansion foam concentrates for top application to water-miscible liquid.
This Standard specifies the essential properties and performance of liquid foam concentrates used to make low-expansion foams for the control, extinction and inhibition of re-ignition of fires of water-miscible liquids. Minimum performance on certain test fires is specified. These foams are suitable for top application to fires of water-miscible liquids. Those foams that also comply with ISO 7203-1 are also suitable for top application to fires of water-immiscible liquids. The foam concentrates can be suitable for use in non-aspirating sprayers or for subsurface application to liquid fires, but requirements specific to those applications are not included in this document.

PS:3733-2022 (R) /OIC/SMIIC (MOD) is world wide adopted Halal standard. Halal is an Arabic word that means permissible. A Halal certified product means that the product is permissible or acceptable in accordance with Islamic law. In order for products to receive this certification, they must be from an acceptable source such as a cow or chicken and slaughtered according to Islamic laws. The Halal certificate is a document that guarantees that products and services aimed at the Muslim population meet the requirements of Islamic law and therefore are suitable for consumption in both Muslim-majority countries and in Western countries where there are significant population group who practice Islam (France, Germany, United Kingdom, and Spain).

Enhance your food safety management and product quality with an HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) certification from ICTS. HACCP certification instantly demonstrates to customers your commitment to producing or trading in safe food. This evidence-based approach can be particularly beneficial when you are subject to inspection by regulatory authorities or stakeholders. Demonstrating a real commitment to food safety through HACCP compliance can also transform your brand and act as an effective entry-to-market tool, opening up new business opportunities around the world. Our global network of food experts carries out HACCP audits and helps you focus on the hazards that affect food safety and hygiene. It is then possible to systematically identify where the hazards are by setting up control limits at critical points during the food production process.

HACCP certification is an international standard defining the requirements for effective control of food safety. It is built around seven principles:

• Conduct Hazard Analysis of biological, chemical or physical food hazards
• Determine critical control points
• Establish critical control limits, for example, minimum cooking temperature and time
• Establish a system to monitor control of Critical Control Points
• Establish corrective actions
• Establish procedure for verification to confirm that the HACCP system is working effectively
• Establish documentation and record keeping

Benefits of HACCP

The primary purpose of a HACCP system is to protect people from food borne illness, but the benefits of the system also extend to the company.

• Increased confidence in your products
• Ability to reach markets and customers that require a HACCP based system
• Reduced Liability
• Effective process management
• Improved quality and consistency

Why Certify With ICTS Certification?

ICTS Certification is the ICTS management-system certification unit. It is founded on the principles of independence and impartiality. Our end goal is to:

• Help our clients achieve and demonstrate their commitment to ongoing improvement
• Certify our client’s compliance with the most exacting of standards by way of second-party and third-party audits
• Ensure that our clients’ products gain access to international markets.

Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) is a system for ensuring that products are consistently produced and controlled according to quality standards. It is designed to minimize the risks involved in any production that cannot be eliminated through testing the final product.
Good manufacturing practice guidelines provide guidance for manufacturing, testing, and quality assurance in order to ensure that a food or drug product is safe for human consumption. Many countries have legislated that food, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers follow GMP procedures and create their own GMP guidelines that correspond with their legislation.

All guidelines follow a few basic principles:

• Hygiene: Pharmaceutical manufacturing facility must maintain a clean and hygienic manufacturing area.
• Controlled environmental conditions in order to prevent cross contamination of food or drug product from adulterants that may render the product unsafe for human consumption.
• Manufacturing processes are clearly defined and controlled. All critical processes are validated to ensure consistency and compliance with specifications.
• Manufacturing processes are controlled, and any changes to the process are evaluated. Changes that have an impact on the quality of the drug are validated as necessary.
• Instructions and procedures are written in clear and unambiguous
• Operators are trained to carry out and document procedures.
• Records are made, manually or by instruments, during manufacture that demonstrate that all the steps required by the defined procedures and instructions were in fact taken and that the quantity and quality of the food or drug was as expected. Deviations are investigated and documented.
• Records of manufacture (including distribution) that enable the complete history of a batch to be traced are retained in a comprehensible and accessible form.
• The distribution of the food or drugs minimizes any risk to their quality.
• A system is available for recalling any batch from sale or supply.
• Complaints about marketed products are examined, the causes of quality defects are investigated, and appropriate measures are taken with respect to the defective products and to prevent recurrence.

The key benefits to GMP certification:

• Prove organization’s management capabilities in product quality, safety assurance
• Enable employees to develop good production / operations habits
• Reduce safety risk in product quality and safety
• Timely detect production and management problems, reduce cost
• Better understand and comply with the relevant laws and regulations
• Enhance the international credibility and public image
• Increase customer’s long-term confidence in the enterprise

Why Certify With ICTS Certification?

ICTS Certification is the ICTS management-system certification unit. It is founded on the principles of independence and impartiality. Our end goal is to:

• Help our clients achieve and demonstrate their commitment to ongoing improvement
• Certify our client’s compliance with the most exacting of standards by way of second-party and third-party audits
• Ensure that our clients’ products gain access to international markets.

So you want to be part of our growing global feed safety community? Great choice. As a GMP+ certified company, you not only contribute to a safe feed chain, but you also improve your business position and profile.

Certification
We cannot realise ‘Feed Safety Worldwide’ without the dedication of each and every company in the feed chain. Your efforts matter: a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Licence to sell
A GMP+ certificate confirms that your feed safety risk management system lives up to the highest industry standards. This is not just good news for feed safety, it also means business. Since the GMP+ FSA standard is recognised worldwide, a certificate acts as ‘license to sell’ a in a growing number of countries.

Knowledge
But there’s more. As part of our global GMP+ Community, you get access to a wide range of services.

Our GMP+ Helpdesk and GMP+ Registered Consultants are always available for support. In addition, our GMP+ Academy gives you the opportunity to expand feed safety knowledge and awareness within your company.
Be prepared
Realise that becoming GMP+ certified takes serious time and effort. First familiarise yourself with the structure of the FC scheme and the different scopes for which you can be certified. Once you have determined which scope applies to your company, you can start implementing it by setting up the necessary procedures. GMP+ Registered Consultants are there to guide you along the way.

Independent auditing
Once you are confident that your system meets the GMP+ FC scheme standards, a Certification Body will arrange an audit. While GMP+ International owns and manages the FC scheme, certificates are issued by independent Certification Bodies. If your company successfully completes this audit, you will receive the certificate and enjoy the benefits of being part of our worldwide feed safety community!

Meet the growing demand for authentic Kosher-certified food with certification and compliance services developed in partnership with Kosher Check. An estimated one million products are Kosher certified, with consumers spending over USD 200 billion annually on them. Kosher food certification lets you access a market that has grown by over 20% in recent years and continues to expand.

Global solution for Kosher food

Developed in partnership with Kosher Check, our industry-relevant kosher certification process delivers a global solution that is practical to implement. It is comparable in standard and quality to other recognized food schemes.

Kosher certification and compliance services

We offer a complete kosher audit and certification and compliance program that also incorporates:

• Gap analysis – identify compliance gaps and prepare for the certification audit
• Technical support – for practical and in-factory implementation
• Training – delivered as face-to-face or online, our training is tailored to reflect your own requirements

Our easy-to-follow certification process gives you access to the right expertise at each step of the process.

Kosher certification provider

Kosher Check is the preferred Kosher agency for over 500 leading manufacturers around the world. A member of the Association of Kashrut Organizations (AKO), it is internationally recognized and provides an industry-practical and transparent approach to Kosher food certification that includes clearly written general compliance requirements, step-by-step technical support and guidance.

One-stop solutions

In addition to our Kosher food certification services, we offer a full range of food safety/quality solutions, including auditing and certification services against a number of internationally recognized food industry standards – FSSC 22000, BRCGS, IFS, SQF, GMP/HACCP, Gluten-free and V-Label. Utilizing our global network of experts and state-of-the-art testing facilities, we are ready to help you meet your compliance requirements.

Why choose kosher certification from ICTS?

We are recognized as the benchmark for quality and integrity in the global food supply sector. Wherever you operate in the world, our kosher certification service is easy to follow and implement, letting you access compliance requirements and ensuring you are fully prepared in advanced of your certification audit.

CE-marking services from ICTS – meet the compulsory product safety directives you need to trade in the EU with effective conformity assessment services from a notified body. If you want to trade in the EU, CE-marking is a mandatory conformity mark required for a wide variety of products. CE-marking indicates that your products comply with stringent EU product safety directives. However, achieving compliance can be a complex process. As a notified body for nearly all EU product safety directives, our CE-marking conformity assessment services provide you with the expertise you need to achieve compliance.

Why Use CE-MARKING Conformity Assessment Services From ICTS?

Whether you need assistance for the entire process or guidance for certain parts, we can help you:

• Achieve compliance, offering you advice and guidance
• Determine which EU directives and standards apply to your products
• Define your responsibilities under EU product safety directives
• Understand the concept of diverse certification and the various steps that are required
• Identify whether a notified body (NoBo is required to enable you to achieve compliance

Trusted CE-MARKING Conformity Assessment Services from a Leading Supplier As the world’s leading certification, testing, inspection and Verification Company, we offer you unrivaled experience in EU requirements. Plus, as a notified body for nearly all EU product safety directives, we are the first choice for clients around the world who need trusted CE-marking services.

As a result of our knowledge and expertise, we can offer you more than just a regular certification service. We can provide you with extensive support and advice, enabling you to take ownership of the product certification process, so that your company will gain new expertise.

Our CE-marking conformity assessment services include:

• Advice on the CE-marking process
• Conformity assessment
• Verification of design
• Type approval
• System audit and approval
• File and document assessment
• Production supervision and sample testing
• CE audits and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing
• Workshops and training
• Risk analysis and assessment
• Technical files
• User manual and instruction card assessment
• Identification of interpretation issues
• Issuing your EC declaration of conformity
• Issuing your certificate of verification

1. Directive 2014/35/EU
2. BS EN 71-3:2019
3. Directive 2006/42/EC
4. MDR 2017/745/EU
5. Directive 2014/30/EU
6. BS EN 1177:2018
7. Regulation (EU) 2016/425
8. Directive 2001/95/EC

BRC: Global Food Safety Standard

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) first published its Global Standard for Food Safety in 1998. Developed to help the food industry comply with UK and EU food safety laws, it’s become an internationally recognized benchmark for best practice in food safety, quality and responsibility, with over 17,000 BRC-certified sites worldwide.

What the standard covers

The Global Standard for Food Safety sets out requirements for how processed foods and other products (for example, branded foods; retailer-brand foods; or ingredients used by food service companies, caterers or manufacturers) should be made or prepared. Only those products manufactured, prepared or stored at the site audited as part of the certification will apply.

The standard’s divided into seven sections:

1 – Senior management commitment and continual improvement

Your senior managers must commit to implementing and continually improving your organization’s food safety processes.

2 – The Food Safety Plan – HACCP

Having a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan in place allows you to identify and manage any biological, chemical or physical hazards that could make the food you produce unsafe to eat.

3 – Food safety and quality management system

You should implement a system that enables you to produce safe products, meet customers’ expectations and ensure staff are well trained.

4 – Site standards

Sites on which you manufacture or prepare food must be laid out, maintained, cleaned and secured according to strict standards. Your organization must also meet requirements relating to the control of pests and foreign bodies.

5 – Product control

For your products to be considered safe, you need to demonstrate that you properly manage things such as allergens, provenance and product testing.

6 – Process control

You must implement your HACCP plan from day to day, and have effective procedures in place for ensuring you manufacture your products to the correct quality.

7 – Personnel

This part of the standard covers training, protective clothing, and hygiene.

Benefits of certification:

• Protects your brand and your customers
• Allows you to do business with those retailers, manufacturers, ingredients companies and food service organizations who specify certification as part of their approval process
• Helps reduce the number of product recalls, customer complaints and rejected products
• Incorporates food safety management systems and internationally accepted best practice to ensure the safety and quality of products
• Audits are carried out by trained and experienced certification bodies working to BRC Global Standards
• A Hazard and Risk Management System to manage risks by following a step-by-step approach
• Senior management commitment to provide sufficient resources to achieve the standard
• A quality management system that details the organizational and managerial policies needed to provide a framework to achieve the standard
• A series of pre-requisite programs dealing with the basic environmental and operational conditions needed for the production of safe and hygienic packaging and controlling the generic hazards covered by good manufacturing and good hygiene practices

The BRC Global Standard for Food Safety was the first standard to meet the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) benchmark, which means it’s accepted by many of the world’s biggest retailers, such as Tesco and Walmart. Achieving the certification ensures your customers have confidence in your products.

Why Certify With ICTS Certification?

ICTS Certification is the ICTS management-system certification unit. It is founded on the principles of independence and impartiality. Our end goal is to:

• Help our clients achieve and demonstrate their commitment to ongoing improvement
• Certify our client’s compliance with the most exacting of standards by way of second-party and third-party audits
• Ensure that our clients’ products gain access to international markets.

The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. FDA also has responsibility for regulating the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of tobacco products to protect the public health and to reduce tobacco use by minors.

FDA is responsible for advancing the public health by helping to speed innovations that make medical products more effective, safer, and more affordable and by helping the public get the accurate, science-based information they need to use medical products and foods to maintain and improve their health. FDA also plays a significant role in the Nation’s counterterrorism capability. FDA fulfills this responsibility by ensuring the security of the food supply and by fostering development of medical products to respond to deliberate and naturally emerging public health threats. ICTS support their customers for the registration of following products.

• Food
• Drugs
• Cosmetics
• Medical Devices.
• Vaccines, Blood, & Biologics.
• Tobacco Products.
• Animal & Veterinary.
• Radiation-Emitting Products.

SEDEX, the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange, is a not-revenue driven association situated in London, UK, open for participation to any organization anyplace on the planet. SEDEX is a participation association for organizations focused on persistent improvement of the moral execution of their supply chains. Organizations join SEDEX so as to utilize the SEDEX electronic framework, take an interest in SEDEX Certification administration , take an interest in working gatherings , arrange and draw in with other SEDEX individuals , use SEDEX esteem included administrations.

SEDEX empowers part organizations to productively deal with the moral and mindful practices of their worldwide supply chains, creating straightforwardness through the arrangement of an information trade.

SEDEX centers around four columns. Individuals focus on improving their production network execution as needs be.

• Work Standards
• Health and Safety
• Condition and
• Business Integrity

The device utilized by SEDEX is named SMETA (SEDEX Members Ethical Trade Audit). It fuses 3 components:

• A best practice direction on leading moral exchange audits
• An audit report design and
• A remedial activity plan group

The advantages of SEDEX Certification:

• Simple to get to data or information at one secure spot
• Creates Ethical strategic policies
• Keep up and oversee business information or data appropriately
• Improves business proficiency of the association
• Lessen remaining task at hand and produce more noteworthy worker inclusion