Shell Becomes First Company Worldwide to Receive ISO 21469 Certification

NSF Certification Highlights Shell’s Commitment to Food Safety

NSF today announced that Shell International Petroleum Company Ltd is the first company to receive Certification to ISO 21469: Safety of machinery – Lubricants with Incidental Product Contact — Hygiene requirements. NSF is currently the only company offering American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-accredited ISO 21469 Certification.

ISO 21469 Certified lubricants offer new assurances to processors of specialized products with strict hygiene and safety requirements to meet. ISO 21469 specifies the hygiene requirements for the formulation, manufacture, use and handling of lubricants, which may come into contact with products during manufacturing or processing. The international standard applies to lubricants intended for use in food production, as well as cosmetic, pharmaceutical and animal feed industries.

“Certification to ISO 21469 provides our customers with real proof that we take food safety seriously,” said Shell Lubricants Food Sector Product Application Specialist, Eduard Stempfel. “From a food producer’s point of view, NSF Nonfood Compounds Registration is a great starting point. However, ISO 21469 Certification takes registration a step further by integrating Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and hygiene requirements to ensure that the risk of contamination is further minimized.”

Sarah Krol, Business Unit Manager for NSF’s Nonfood Compounds Registration Program says, “Shell has set the standard for other companies to follow. The focus of the food industry has shifted to proactively minimize sources of food contamination during production. ISO 21469 provides an internationally accepted hygiene and safety standard for lubricants that bridges multiple processing industries. More and more companies will turn to certified lubricants as the logical alternative for managing the critical control points identified during the hazard analysis of their production processes.”

Stempfel adds, “Without NSF Registration, you cannot, in many cases, be accepted as food grade by the food manufacturers quality assurance department, and I believe, in the near future, it will be the same for this ISO standard as regulations and traceability demands become more stringent.”

To view the entire news release click following link: http://www.nsf.org/info/iso21469/

Contacts

NSF International
Greta Houlahan, +1 734-913-5723
Email: houlahan {at} nsf(.)org
or
Shell Lubricants
Joe Dixon, +44 (0)770 886915
Email: jdixon {at} webershandwick(.)com