Food safety management systems on CD

ISO has launched a CD that contains the ISO 22000 series of standards developed to help operators in the food chain to implement food safety management systems. The CD also includes related standards for conformity assessment professionals involved in the certification of food safety management systems and in the accreditation of bodies carrying out such certification.

ISO 22000:2005, which gives the requirements for a food safety management system, is implemented by more than 700 organisations in some 60 countries. It and the supporting standards in the series can be used by any type of organisation in the food chain, ranging from feed producers, primary producers through food manufacturers, transport and storage operators, including also subcontractors to retail and food service outlets.

The ISO Pack on Food Safety Management Systems CD includes the following: ISO 22000:2005, Food safety management systems — Requirements for any organization in the food chain and its corrigendum ISO 22000:2005/Cor1:2006 give the basic requirements for a food safety management system to ensure food safety along the food chain, up to the point of final consumption; ISO/TS 22004:2005, Food safety management systems — Guidance on the application of ISO 22000:2005 gives guidance on the use of ISO 22000, which is based on the principles of the HACCP system developed by the Codex Alimentarius Commission and is designed to be applied together with relevant standards published by that organisation; ISO 22005:20007, Traceability in the feed and food chain — General principles and basic requirements for system design and implementation gives the principles and specifies the basic requirements for the design and implementation of a feed and food traceability system; and ISO/TS 22003:2007, Food safety management systems — Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of food safety management systems and ISO/IEC 17021:2006, Conformity assessment — Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems, have been developed for certification bodies and the accreditation bodies that approve them as competent. Certification of a food safety management system to ISO 22000 is not a requirement of the standard, but is one means of providing assurance that an organisation has implemented a system for the management of food safety in line with its policy.