ISO 22000 is an international standard that defines the requirements of a food safety management system covering all sizes of all organizations throughout the food chain.

With a greater focus on risk-based thinking and aligned to ISO’s high level structure, the new ISO 22000 Food Safety Management Systems can deliver additional benefits to organizations  of all sizes throughout the food chain:

• Improved control over food safety activities

• Customer, statutory and regulatory compliance

• Facilitated market growth

• Increased customer, stakeholder and consumer confidence in products

• Improved risk management

• Integration with other ISO management systems

Organizations currently certified to ISO 22000:2005 will have three years to transition to the new standard.

• Introduce internationally recognized processes to your business
• Give suppliers and stakeholders confidence in your hazard controls
• Put these hazard controls in place across your supply chain
• Introduce transparency around accountability and responsibilities
• Continually improve and update your systems so it stays effective
• ISO 22000 contains the food safety management system requirements of FSSC 22000 (which is a Global Food Safety Initiative, GFSI recognised scheme) and is used along with requirements for prerequisite programs for the appropriate industry sector