ISO 22000 Standard on Food Safety Management Systems under review
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 6:25 am
The Coordinator of the Official University Master's Degree in Food Safety Management at Bureau Veritas University Center , Belén Macías, talks to us in this post about the revision process of the ISO 22000 standard.
Following the publication last September of the new versions of the ISO 9001 and 14001 standards, and their "high-level" structure, one of the questions that arises is whether the new revisable versions of the ISO standards will also maintain this new approach .
This is where the ISO 22000 standard comes in, currently under review by Technical Committee ISO/TC 34/SC 17 .
ISO 22000, Food Safety Management Systems ( FSMS), is the first international ISO standard that specifies the requirements for a Food Safety Management System. Following its first publication in 2005, its revision was imminent.
The ISO 22000 standard establishes the requirements that a bc data Management System must meet to guarantee food safety in each of the processes carried out during the food chain , until culminating in the sale of the final product.
This describes a Food Safety Management System applicable to all organizations involved in any aspect of the food chain, regardless of their size or complexity . In fact, organizations can be directly or indirectly linked to the food chain: livestock, agriculture, food producers, catering, companies that carry out cleaning and disinfection services, freight transport companies, suppliers of equipment for the agri-food industry, etc.
Since its first publication in 2005, the standard has been established and in fact, the latest survey published by ISO shows a 15% increase in the number of certificates issued for the ISO 22000 r standard compared to the previous year.
At this time the review group has already delivered a second version of the so-called working document of the new ISO 22000. This Technical Committee ISO/TC 34/SC 17 ensures that the revision of the ISO 22000 standard will be aligned with Annex SL , the common high-level structure for newly published ISO standards, including comments originating from the proposals for improvements received during the review period.
In fact, consultations carried out with users of the standard have yielded interesting information related to certain terms that have been confusing in the current version , some due to excessive repetition, as well as others that need to be clarified. For example, through this information it has been possible to verify that the risk assessment still needs to be improved in order to be correctly applied in small or medium-sized companies.
In the expected schedule for the revision of the standard, work will continue and information and comments will be collected until mid-June 2016, with the aim of starting the final revision process in September 2016 .
In this way, and if everything goes according to plan, it is expected that the new version of the ISO 22000 standard will be published in 2017 , a short path to a new version of a standard that is expected to arouse great interest.
Following the publication last September of the new versions of the ISO 9001 and 14001 standards, and their "high-level" structure, one of the questions that arises is whether the new revisable versions of the ISO standards will also maintain this new approach .
This is where the ISO 22000 standard comes in, currently under review by Technical Committee ISO/TC 34/SC 17 .
ISO 22000, Food Safety Management Systems ( FSMS), is the first international ISO standard that specifies the requirements for a Food Safety Management System. Following its first publication in 2005, its revision was imminent.
The ISO 22000 standard establishes the requirements that a bc data Management System must meet to guarantee food safety in each of the processes carried out during the food chain , until culminating in the sale of the final product.
This describes a Food Safety Management System applicable to all organizations involved in any aspect of the food chain, regardless of their size or complexity . In fact, organizations can be directly or indirectly linked to the food chain: livestock, agriculture, food producers, catering, companies that carry out cleaning and disinfection services, freight transport companies, suppliers of equipment for the agri-food industry, etc.
Since its first publication in 2005, the standard has been established and in fact, the latest survey published by ISO shows a 15% increase in the number of certificates issued for the ISO 22000 r standard compared to the previous year.
At this time the review group has already delivered a second version of the so-called working document of the new ISO 22000. This Technical Committee ISO/TC 34/SC 17 ensures that the revision of the ISO 22000 standard will be aligned with Annex SL , the common high-level structure for newly published ISO standards, including comments originating from the proposals for improvements received during the review period.
In fact, consultations carried out with users of the standard have yielded interesting information related to certain terms that have been confusing in the current version , some due to excessive repetition, as well as others that need to be clarified. For example, through this information it has been possible to verify that the risk assessment still needs to be improved in order to be correctly applied in small or medium-sized companies.
In the expected schedule for the revision of the standard, work will continue and information and comments will be collected until mid-June 2016, with the aim of starting the final revision process in September 2016 .
In this way, and if everything goes according to plan, it is expected that the new version of the ISO 22000 standard will be published in 2017 , a short path to a new version of a standard that is expected to arouse great interest.