Preloader Close

Head Office

Hexagon Tech Park, 10300 Georgetown, Penang

opening Hrs

Weekdays 9.30am to 17.00pm

MeSTI Certification

What is MeSTI
Certification and
its requirement?

A renamed framework to substitute the 1 Malaysia Food Protection Scheme (SK1 M) is MeSTI, or Makanan Selamat Tanggungjawab Industri Certification Scheme has been introduced. Under the 2009 Food Hygiene Regulation, every food processing, producing, and packaging facility owner and occupant is expected to plan and maintain a Food Security Assurance Program. This certification is also mandatory for an entity that has no other Food Safety Management System in place, as MeSTI meets the basic criteria to ensure that food provided by the manufacturer is safe inside Malaysia

The other certifications are globally acknowledged food safety systems namely

  • HACCP
  • GMP
  • ISO 22000
  • HALAL

Explore our audit & assurance services

MESTI Certification in Malaysia

IOSCT is a third-party organization that offers consulting services and assistance to HACCP, GMP, and MeSTI certification and verification for companies working in the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics industries. Certifying the food safety management system with IOSCT for HACCP, Good Manufacturing Practices and MESTI standards offers clients an ideal way to prepare for the inspections of regulatory authorities and other stakeholders.

The Benefits of MeSTI Certification in Malaysia

1. Fast track food assurance certification with easy access

2. Fulfilling the requirements stated by the Food Hygiene Regulations 2009

3. Ability to market your products as supermarkets as well as KR1M and COOP1M markets

4. Achievement of Free Sales Certificate

5. Receiving coaching from the Ministry of Health

6. MeSTI logo on your product labels will increase customer confidence and trust

7. Additional promotional activities thanks to the reliability achieved by this certification

Awesome Image

What is the purpose of MeSTI
Certification in Malaysia?

With the MeSTI qualification, before being awarded certification, the food operators are directed and obligated to establish and enforce PJKM (2010), the' Food Safety Assurance Program.' Under this PJKM, businesses must build a framework with a national framework of expected and reported activities. Premise access, control activities, and traceability are among the major themes of the successful PJKM.

MeSTI is a food safety program initiated by the Ministry of Health to introduce a food hygiene management and operations management system that involves food safety protection and food quality and safety. The MeSTI certification logo is implemented through this program as food safety adherence and is a safety regulation for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs ) in Malaysia to become a major exporter or producer of food products whilst also enabling food safety standards implementation.

Awesome Image

How does the MESTI Certification
Process Work?

In training on the criteria for MeSTI certification, businesses will be trained and driven. These include the basic course on Mesti food production standards, a workshop, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) course for the food processing business.

The auditors will perform audits of the production premises. Visuals from the production facilities will be used during the audit process to disclose suggestions for change. All assessments and audits will be performed on evidence. Specially trained auditors assigned by the Ministry of Health will be the person in charge of your company’s certification process. They will check whether the necessary MeSTI elements are provided, meet the desired limits or expectations, and implement all required elements in operation all the time to provide consistent quality. After the field audit, there will be a follow-up audit to give companies time to resolve nonconformances within 3 months.

After the certification of MeSTI, these institutions will also be controlled afterward through monitoring audits to protect their certification eventually. This Food Safety Program is a system and also a framework provided to small and medium companies operating in the food industry to ensure that any of the processed or manufactured products will not be harmful to their consumers.

Awesome Image

Do give us a call

Please feel free to ask us about MeSTI certification, our staff will be happy to help you with more information you need, we look forward to working with your company and getting MeSTI certification to help you expand your market.
Awesome Image