Dear All,
I am working on a project of re-defining the methodology for raw material hazard analysis at my workplace, we have plants in Canada and US. I have learnt that in the past we grouped our raw materials like a hazard assessment done for flavour was considered to be sufficient for all kinds of different flavours like strawberry, vanilla, etc and whether it was a natural or artificial. I am changing this but we make a lot of products and have around 1800 RM/PM suppliers, AFAIK we have a number of suppliers providing same product as well.
In order to keep it simple and appropriate, I intend to group my suppliers who provide same product as per our defined raw material characteristics thus 1 RM (from multiple suppliers) => 1 assessment response on RM Hazard analysis table i.e. separate responses for brilliant yellow sugar, coarse white sugar, fine white sugar. And let's say there are 4 suppliers for fine white sugar then reviewing their controls together against the potential hazards (under P/C/B) => applying risk methodology => justifying the decision of risk rating in gist => where required applying additional controls against a supplier.
Does it make sense? Please let me know your thoughts about it any possible consequences that you foresee like any scenarios leading us to deviate from FSMA / SQF/ BRC/ CFIA requirements?