ISO 22000

This international standard specifies the requirements for structural system of food safety management, which connects generally established key items of food safety assurance because it integrates the rules of system of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) and with the system of preventive requirements programs (PRP).

This international standard mainly makes provisions for standard ISO 9001 provisions with the aim to increase compatibility of these two standards and enables simple implementation mainly in such food industry organizations, where the system of quality management according to ISO 9001 has already been established. Standard ISO 22000 can be successfully applied also individually, independently of other standards and management systems aside from the size of organization or operation.

Implementation and certification of food safety management system according to standard ISO 22000 brings to organization advantages in many areas:

ISO 22000 benefits everyone

ISO 22000 can contribute to the quality of life in general by:

Ensuring Safe Food

Reducing Foodborne Diseases

Better quality and safer jobs in the food industry

Better utilization of resources

More efficient validation and documentation of techniques, methods and procedures

Increased profits

Increased potential for economic growth and development

ISO 22000 benefit of Governments

For Governments, ISO 22000 provides:

Technological and scientific know-how

Bases for developing health, safety and environmental legislation

Education of food regulatory personnel

Internal advantages for organization

Improvement of hygiene, technological discipline

Improvement of management and personnel communication

Tasks explicit specification of individual employees responsibilities improvement of work discipline

More effective checking of processes, employees, suppliers, raw materials and final products

Decrease of defectiveness, improvement of qualitative indexes

Operative problems solving, possibility of permanent improvement

Compatibility with system of quality management in terms of standard ISO 9001

Compatible with other management systems possibility of integrated management system generation

External advantages for organization

Resumption of consumers trust within the food safety

Improvement of company's image in the eye of consumer and inspection bodies

Improvement of legal protection of organization

Decrease of the pressure from inspection bodies following the increased qualitative & safety standard

Easier implementation and carriage of new products on the market

Easier more effective creation & maintenance of marketing position of organization within given sector

Standard ISO 22000 provides the manual for building up and maintenance of effectively working food safety management system. A certified organisation is qualified to use a certification mark for certified scopes.