PNS.BAFS+354.2022_PNS+Validation+of+Food+Safety+

In the Philippines, Section 9 (Setting of food safety standards) of the Republic Act No.

10611 (Food Safety Act [FSA] of 2013) mandated the Department of Agriculture (DA)

in conflict with what is necessary to protect consumers and scientific justifications

exists for the action taken” (DA & DOH, 2015). To fulfill these mandates under the FSA

of 2013, the Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Standards (BAFS) of the Department

In response, the BAFS-DA initiated the development of the Philippine National

Standard (PNS) on the guidelines for the validation of food safety control measures

with the guidance of a Technical Working Group (TWG) in 2022. This TWG was

officially created under Special Order (SO) No. 103, series of 2022 (Creation of TWG

for the development of PNS for agriculture and fishery products, machineries, and

infrastructures), SO No. 350, series of 2022 (Addendum to Special Order No. 103),

and SO No. 487, series of 2022 (Addendum to Special Order No. 103). The TWG was

composed of representatives from the relevant government agencies,

academe/research institutions, private sector organizations, and Civil Society

document to consider the conditions in the Philippines are written in italicized text for

distinction. This document was written in accordance with the formatting and editorial

rules of the Standardization Guide No. 1 (Writing the Philippine National Standards)

developed by the Standards Development Division (SDD) of the BAFS-DA.

Foreword ..................................................................................................................... i

1 Scope .............................................................................................................. 1

2 Normative References ..................................................................................... 1

3 Terms and Definitions ...................................................................................... 1

6.1 Approaches for validating control measures .................................................... 6

6.2 Steps involved in the validation process .......................................................... 8

6.3 Results of the validation process ..................................................................... 9

7 Need for Re-validation ..................................................................................... 9

7.1 System failure .................................................................................................. 9

ANNEX A (Interrelationships among validation, monitoring, and verification) .......... 11

ANNEX B (Examples of validation of food safety control measures) ....................... 13

Bibliography ............................................................................................................. 21

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