ISO 22000 : Food safety management systems

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What is ISO 22000?

ISO 22000 is a international standard for food safety. It’s specifies the requirement for food safety management system that involves interactive communication, system management, prerequisite program and HACCP principles.          The standard defines food safety as the concept that foodstuffs should not be harmful to the consumer and recognizes that food safety hazards can be introduced at any stage of the food chain. Recognizing that food safety problems can originate at any point in the supply chain, the standard requires that the organization in the food chain take into account the safety hazards of the final food product of the chain to the consumer and, if necessary, take measures to control those hazards.

         It’s can integrate with the standard that you have, because has the same format as other standards including ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. So it's easy to integrate with the standards your using at the moment.

Who can use ISO 22000?

All of organizations, in the supply chain - from farmers to food services, to processing, transportation, storage, retail and packaging. This includes suppliers of non-food products and services, like cleaning, equipment manufacturers and transport companies.

The Benefits of Implementing ISO 22000

• Enabling communication about hazards with partners in the food supply chain


• Continues improve the documents


• Compliance with the Codex HACCP principles


• Clear communication across the entire supply chain


• Control/reduction of food safety hazards


• Traceability – identification of an organization’s impact on food safety within the supply chain


• Enables an organization to align its food safety management system with other recognized management systems such as quality (ISO 9001) and environmental (ISO 14001)


• Resource optimization (internally & along the food chain; reducing overlapping system audits)


• More systematic, efficient and dynamic food safety hazard control

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