Food safety management system (FSMS) enables an organization that is directly or indirectly involved in the food chain: 

1. to plan, implement, operate, maintain and update a FSMS providing products and services that are safe, in accordance with their intended use;
2. to demonstrate compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory food safety requirements;
3. to evaluate and assess mutually agreed customer food safety requirements and to demonstrate conformity with them;
4. to effectively communicate food safety issues to interested parties within the food chain;
5. to ensure that the organization conforms to its stated food safety policy;
6. to demonstrate conformity to relevant interested parties;
7. to seek certification or registration of its FSMS by an external organization, or make a self-assessment or self-declaration of conformity to this document.