Food safety management
Food reaches consumers via supply chains that may link many different organizations and stretch across multiple borders. One weak link at any point of the chain can end in unsafe food that is dangerous to health, resulting in potentially serious hazards to consumers and considerable costs to food chain suppliers.
ISO offers the ISO 22000 family of standards for food safety management systems, to ensure safe food supply chains worldwide by providing a framework of internationally harmonized requirements.
- ISO 22000:2005 gives the requirements for a food safety management system that can be implemented by all organizations within the food chain, including feed producers, primary producers, food manufacturers, transport and storage operators, subcontractors to retail and food service outlets and producers of equipment, packaging material and cleaning agents. Organizations can choose to be independently certified as conforming to the requirements of ISO 22000, or may be required to do so by their customers or regulators, However, certification is not a requirement of the standard itself, which can be implemented solely for the benefits it brings the organization.
- ISO 22004:2005 provides organizations with guidance on implementing ISO 22000.
- ISO/TS 22003:2007 defines the rules applicable for the audit and certification of a food safety management system complying with the requirements given in ISO 22000 and provides the necessary information and confidence to customers about the way certification of their suppliers has been granted.
- ISO 22005:2007 establishes the principles and requirements for the design and implementation of a feed and food traceability system. This is a tool to assist in establishing the history or location of a product or its relevant components.
- ISO 22000 Food Safety Management Systems – An easy-to-use checklist for small businesses - Are you ready? is a combined handbook and CD to help small businesses in particular to implement ISO 22000 food safety management systems