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ISO 22000 - Food safety management

The ISO 22000 family of International Standards addresses food safety management.

The consequences of unsafe food can be serious and ISO’s food safety management standards help organizations identify and control food safety hazards. As many of today's food products repeatedly cross national boundaries, International Standards are needed to ensure the safety of the global food supply chain.

The ISO 22000 family contains a number of standards each focusing on different aspects of food safety management.

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ISO 22000:2005

ISO 22000:2005 sets out the requirements for a food safety management system and can be certified to. It maps out what an organization needs to do to demonstrate its ability to control food safety hazards in order to ensure that food is safe. It can be used by any organization regardless of its size or position in the food chain.

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TC34/SC17
The standards in the ISO 22000 family are developed by the technical committee TC 34/SC 17. More information on ISO 22000 can be found on the TC 34/SC 17 homepage.

ISO Standards in Action
More information about ISO Standards and the food sector can be found on ISO Standards in Action: Food.

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  • ISO 22000:2005
    Food safety management systems -- Requirements for any organization in the food chain
  • ISO 22005:2007
    Traceability in the feed and food chain -- General principles and basic requirements for system design and implementation
  • ISO/TS 22004:2005
    Food safety management systems -- Guidance on the application of ISO 22000:2005

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Useful articles

Food safety training - Rwanda puts ISO 22000 on the menu

by Garry Lambert

Food industry companies across Rwanda are participating in a series of training seminars to encourage implementation of, and certification to, ISO 22000:2005, Food safety management systems – Requirements for any organization in the food chain. Launched in March 2010, the training programme, conducted by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in collaboration with the Rwanda Bureau of Standards (RBS), aims at helping local enterprises upgrade to ISO 22000, in a move to help promote exports of Rwandan food products.

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Coca-Cola and management systems

by Garry Lambert

Coca-Cola’s new bottling plant in Russia will be run in conformity with an integrated ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 22000 and OHSAS 18001 based management system being rolled out across all 75 plants in 28 countries, operated by major bottler Coca-Cola Hellenic.

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Food safety - Philippines' Mekeni puts ISO 22000 on the menu

The Mekeni Food Corporation (MFC) of Pampanga in the Philippines has come a long way since 1991 when the original Mekeni Meat Products company managed to survive the devastating Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption which killed 800 people, made 100 000 homeless and sent an ash cloud around the world. While many companies closed shop or pulled out, Mekeni decided to ride out the disaster and help rebuild the local community.

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Nestlé CEO on the need for International Standards

Paul Bulcke has been Chief Executive Officer of Nestlé S.A., since April 2008. According to Mr. Bulcke, “ISO has a specific role to play as a truly global, multi-stakeholder, export-driven, consensus-based standardization organization: it enables us to work efficiently.”

Coca-Cola and management systems

Coca-Cola’s new bottling plant in Russia will be run in conformity with an integrated ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 22000 and OHSAS 18001 based management system being rolled out across all 75 plants in 28 countries, operated by major bottler Coca-Cola Hellenic.