Overview

ISO FSMS 22000

ISO 22000, Food safety management systems (FSMS) is an international standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization applicable to all the organizations involved throughout the food and feed chain, regardless of size or sector.This standard aims at controlling food safety hazards along the food and feed chain. To make sure that the ISO 22000, Food safety management continues to serve organizations and keep its relevance in todays market place. ISO 22000 is applicable to all organizations in the food and feed industries, regardless of size or sector.

Following the same High-Level Structure (HLS) as other ISO management system standards, such as ISO 9001 (quality management), it is designed in a way that it can be integrated into an organizations existing management processes but can also be used alone and seeks to identify the most recent issues surrounding the food safety while keeping pace with the current needs of modern food sector. All industries practicing food supply and have been certified earlier to ISO 22000:2005 are supposed to migrate to the ISO 22000:2018 soon. By combining PDCA and risk-based thinking to manage business risk with HACCP to identify, prevent and control food safety hazards, ISO 22000 helps organizations to reduce exposure to risk and improve safety.

• ISO 22000 is applicable to all organizations directly or indirectly involved in the food value chain. This includes producers of packaging or detergents, suppliers of cleaning services, pest control or industrial laundry services. It allows you to assess ISO 22000, Food safety management, is an international standard intended to be used by all organizations within the food chain irrespective of its size or position in food chain. Becoming certified to Food safety management system allows a company to show their customers that they have food safety management system in place.
• ISO 22000:2005, the international food safety standard that specifies the requirements to ensure safe production within the entire food chain, from farm to fork, has now been revised and updated and ISO 22000:2018 has been released.
• The objective of this update has been to harmonize the scheme with other standards following the ISO high level structure. Anyone currently certified to ISO 22000:2005 will have 3 years to transition over to the new standard.