New food safety standard set for publication
The final draft of the new standard for food safety management, ISO 22000, has been circulated by ISO and is set to be published in September. The new standard will ensure that there are no weak links in food supply chains and can be applied to organizations ranging from feed producers, primary producers and manufacturers, to transport and storage operators, cleaning agents, packagers and supermarkets.
Jacob Faergemand, convenor of the ISO working group developing 22000 said: ‘As food safety hazards can be introduced at any stage of the food chain, adequate control throughout is essential’. ISO 22000 requires an organization to demonstrate its ability to manage food safety hazards in order to provide consistently safe end-products that meet both the requirements agreed with the customer and those of applicable food safety regulations.
‘Organizations that produce, manufacture, handle or supply food recognize that customers increasingly want them to demonstrate and provide adequate evidence of their ability to identify and control safety hazards’, said Dorte Jespersen, secretary of the ISO 22000 working group. Industry representatives have claimed that the growing number of national standards for food safety management has led to confusion: ‘There is a need to harmonize the national standards at an international level,’ said Jespersen.
The standard can be applied on its own or in combination with other standards such as ISO 9001, with or without independent third party certification of conformity. The publication of ISO 22000 will be complemented by the ISO technical specification ‘ISO/TS 22004’ which gives guidance on the implementation of the standard, with a particular emphasis on small and medium-sized enterprises.
For more information visit the ISO website
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