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ISO 22000 Food Safety Management System

Food safety

What is ISO 22000?

ISO 22000 for Food Safety Management Systems requires organisations to adopt a risk based approach to food safety. Now based on the same Higher Level Structure that all ISO management system standards follow, ISO 22000 combines the principles of ISO 9001 for quality management systems and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) with internationally accepted, industry based pre-requisite programs.
ISO 22000 identifies food safety requirements for organisations within the food and beverage industry chain to address and then implement a food safety management system by identifying, assessing and controlling potential hazards to food safety.

Benefits of ISO 22000 Certification

The benefits of an ISO 22000 certified Food Safety Management System are varied, including:

  • Improve your confidence of your food safety

  • meeting regulatory and customer requirements

  • enhanced company profile and reputation, and stakeholder confidence

  • greater marketing opportunities leading to higher profits

  • enhanced food safety in supply chain

  • minimized risk and food safety related incidents

  • improved food safety performance

  • greater protection from spurious food poisoning allegations

  • food safety culture embedded and employees empowered

  • easily integrated with other management systems.

ISO22000 Food Safety Management System Requirements

For the detailed requirement, you can purchase from the website of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) which develop and publish international standards or its authorities, a Food Safety Management System (FSMS) requires organisations to:

  • understand external & internal issues, and interested parties, relevant to food safety

  • develop a Food Safety Management Policy declaring commitment to food safety

  • appoint a Food Safety Team

  • embrace food safety risks and opportunities

  • identify the critical control points (CCPs), pre-requisite programs (PRPs) and operational pre-requisite programs (OPRPs)

  • establish a Hazard Control Plan, Food Defence Plan and Food Fraud Vulnerability Plan

  • establish procedures,

  • develop and monitor food safety objectives and targets

  • monitor food safety performance

  • plan responses to food safety emergencies

  • ensure staff are competent and understand their food safety responsibilities

  • control food safety nonconformances and take corrective action for significant or repetitive nonconformances

  • ensure internal and external communication of food safety issues

  • implement evaluation and monitoring of external providers

  • implement verification of the Hazard Control Plan and PRPs

  • conduct internal audits of the food safety management system

  • ensure senior management review the food safety management system.

How can we assist your organization to award ISO 22000 Certification?

Stage 1: Perform site visit and understand the organizational structure, style and culture of their operations, their existing documentation (e.g. manual, procedures or forms), resources and training you deployed.
Stage 2: Provide ISO requirement training to the responsible top management.
Stage 3: Discuss with the responsible top management to define the responsibilities of staff at all levels in your management system.
Stage 4: Perform risk assessment of your food safety management system and coordinate with you to prepare the relevant response plan with associated training, documentation or resources.
Stage 5: Coordinate and define Management Policy and Objective or Goals with you according to ISO requirement
Stage 6: Establish necessary mechanism with associated resources and elaborate your management system documents in order to meet ISO requirement.  We will NOT provide a set of totally separated ISO procedures from your existing procedures that it will cause the difficulty in maintaining your management system or certification renewal.
Stage 7: Implement the approved procedures established in Stage 6 through training or briefing to the concerned staff. Among the trial period, any change is allowed to fit your needs or management style without deviating the ISO requirement.
Stage 8: Provide internal audit training to your audit team and perform the first internal audit with them to your management system together.
Stage 9: Perform management review to ensure your management system conforming the ISO requirement.
Stage 10: Select the certification body for certification.

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