| IMS Alerts e-newsletter, Vol.1, No.4, September 2005 |
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ISO 22000 for safe food supply chains
ISO 22000, published on 1 September 2005, is a new International Standard designed to ensure safe food supply chains worldwide.
ISO 22000:2005, Food safety management systems – Requirements for any organization in the food chain, is intended to allow all types of organization within the food chain to implement a food safety management system. These range from feed producers, primary producers, food manufacturers, transport and storage operators and subcontractors to retail and food service outlets – together with related organizations such as producers of equipment, packaging material, cleaning agents, additives and ingredients.
The standard has become necessary because of the significant increase of illnesses caused by infected food in both developed and developing countries. In addition to the health hazards, food-borne illnesses can give rise to considerable economic costs covering medical treatment, absence from work, insurance payments and legal compensation.
Food safety management systems that conform to ISO 22000 can be certified although the standard can be implemented without certification of conformity, solely for the benefits it provides.
Developed with the participation of food sector experts, ISO 22000 incorporates the principles of the HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) system for food hygiene. While ISO 22000 can be implemented on its own, it is designed to be fully compatible with ISO 9001:2000 and companies already certified to ISO 9001 will find it easy to extend this to certification to ISO 22000. To help users to do so, ISO 22000 includes a table showing the correspondence of its requirements with those of ISO 9001:2000.
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Results of ISO 14001 SME survey
The results of the online survey carried out by ISO to gather feedback and experience of small businesses in relation to environmental management can be downloaded free-of-charge here. This project is intended to provide information on how to make it easier for SME’s to benefit from ISO 14001.
The May-June 2005 issue of ISO Management Systems included an article on the survey and a further article on the survey results and follow-up actions being envisaged appears in the September-October 2005 issue.
The latest edition of The ISO Survey of Certifications is targeted for publication in mid-September. The annual survey provides a worldwide panorama of certification to the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 quality and environmental management system standards. The latest edition reveals the situation at the end of 2004, the first full year after the three-year period allowed for transition to ISO 9001:2000.
The September-October 2005 issue of ISO Management Systems includes the first article to be published worldwide on The ISO Survey - 2004.
IWA 4, Quality management systems – Guidelines for the application of ISO 9001:2000 in local government, is expected to be published by ISO on 15 September 2005. The new document is featured in an article in the September-October 2005 issue of ISO Management Systems.
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