ISO 22000 Certification

What is ISO 22000?

ISO 22000:2005 is an international standard that gives requirements for an organization’s Food Safety Management System (FSMS). It is part of a family of standards published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) often referred to collectively as the ISO 2000 series.

ISO22000is a relatively new standard and is based around ISO9001but has been generated specifically for the food industry. The standard is based on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) where potential hazards are identified and a detailed plan established to ensure elimination or effective control over hazards such as physical, chemical or microbiological contamination.

ISO 22000 deals with the fundamentals of food safety management systems.  ISO 22000:2005 deals with the requirements that organizations wishing to meet the standard have to meet.  It has been designed to be compatible with other management system standards such as ISO 9001 and can be implemented within an integrated management system. ISO 22000:2005 specifies the basic requirements for a food safety management system (FSMS) that an organization must fulfil to demonstrate its ability to consistently produce food products which are safe for the end consumer.

The ISO 22000 standard has three parts:

1.    Good manufacturing practices (GMP) or pre-requisite programs requirements

2.    HACCP principles

3.    Management system requirements

History of ISO 22000

ISO 22000 was published in September 2005, to provide a framework of requirements, and confirm a global approach for an international industry. The standard was developed within ISO by experts from the food industry, along with representatives of specialized international organizations. Additional cooperation came from the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which was established by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) to develop food standards.

Why ISO 22000?

§  Access to new markets

§  Compliance with the Codex HACCP principles

§  Providing communication of HACCP concepts internationally

§  An auditable standard with clear requirements so as to provide a framework for third-party certification

§  Enabling communication about hazards with partners in the supply chain

§  Compliance with a legal or business requirement

§  Competitive advantage in the marketplace

§  Identifying problem areas and opportunities for improvement

§  Independent verification of management system suitability & process reliability

§  Enhancing business reputation & corporate image

§  Showing people your care and have a commitment to their well-being

§  Greater staff awareness of, and increased visibility of company obligations

Clauses of ISO 22000 standard

4 Food safety management system
4.1 General requirements
4.2 Documentation requirements

5 Management responsibility
5.1 Management commitment
5.2 Food safety policy
5.3 planning of food safety management system
5.4 Responsibility and power
5.5 Food safety team leader
5.6 Communication
5.7 Preparing to emergency situation and reaction to them
5.8 Management review

6 Resources management
6.1 Providing of resource
6.2 Human Resources
6.3 Infrastructure
6.4 Work environment

7 Safety product planning and realizing
7.1 General
7.2 Prerequisite programs
7.3 First phases of hazard analysis realization
7.4 Hazard analysis
7.5 Operational prerequisite programs
7.6 Occurring of HACCP plan
7.7 Updating of beginning knowledge and documents determined in PRP and HACCP
7.8 Verification plan
7.9 Monitoring system
7.10 Control of non conformity

8 Verification, validation and improvement of food safety management system

8.1 General
8.2 Validation of control guarding combinations
8.3 Control of monitoring and measurement
8.4 Verification of food management system
8.5 Improvement
8.5.1 Continual improvement
8.5.2 Updating of food safety management system

Organizations who can adopt ISO 22000:2005 include:

Direct food chain:

·      Farmers

·      Growers

·      Feed producers

·      Food manufacturers and processors

·      Food ingredient producers

·      Food storage, distribution and transport organisations

·      Caterers

·      Retailers

·      Food service operators such as restaurants and fast food outlets

Indirect food chain:

·      Producers of chemicals to be used in the food industry

·      Producers of equipment used in the food industry

·      Producers of cleaning and sanitizing equipment

·      Producers of packaging materials

·      Service providers

ISO 22000:2005 applies to all organizations, regardless of their size, that impact the food chain. This includes ingredient suppliers, equipment manufacturers, package suppliers, service providers, farmers, food processors, and catering and retailing organizations.

ISO 22000 with CDG Certification

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iso 14001 certification

ISO 14001 is the standard used by a registrar to determine whether an organization will be certified. Similar in structure to ISO 9001, it outlines the requirements companies must meet if they want to obtain certification (registration) of their environmental management system. ISO 14001 was first published in 1996 and was revised in 2004. The ISO 14001 is a substantial standard. It embraces a wide range of issues and topics, and defines many complex concepts and requirements.

This standard is applicable to any organization that wishes to:

• implement, maintain and improve an environmental management system
• assure itself of its conformance with its own stated environmental policy (those policy commitments of course must be made)
• demonstrate conformance
• ensure compliance with environmental laws and regulations
• seek certification of its environmental management system by an external third party organization
• make a self-determination of conformance

Key Elements of ISO 14001:2004

The ISO 14001 standard is based on the same plan-do-check-act (PDCA) structure as ISO 19001. The main elements of the standard are:

1. Environmental Policy
2. Planning
3. Implementation & Operation
4. Checking and Corrective Action
5. Management Review

The ISO Environmental Standards
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) formed Technical Committee (TC) 207 in 1993. This committee is tasked with "standardization in the field of environmental management tools and systems." TC 207 has produced a number of standards and guidance documents dealing with environmental issues. These standards are reviewed, revised and periodically updated to ensure they continue to be useful.

The table below lists some of the standards that have been developed by TC 207.

ISO 14001 is the standard used by a registrar to determine whether an organization will be certified. Similar in structure to ISO 9001, it outlines the requirements companies must meet if they want to obtain certification (registration) of their environmental management system. ISO 14001 was first published in 1996 and was revised in 2004.

Organizations had 18 months (until May 15, 2006) to upgrade their EMS to meet the requirements of ISO 14001:2004.

Key Elements of ISO 14001:2004

The ISO 14001 standard is based on the same plan-do-check-act (PDCA) structure as ISO 19001. The main elements of the standard are:

1. Environmental Policy
2. Planning
3. Implementation & Operation
4. Checking and Corrective Action
5. Management Review

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ISO 9001 certification encyclopaedia

What  ISO 9001:2008 ?

ISO 9001:2008 is a globally recognized standard for quality management system. This standard has been developed by ISO (International Organization for Standardization). This standard addresses all quality management related issues & can be adopted by any organization irrespective of its nature of business & size of organization.

ISO 9001 is by far the world’s most established quality framework, currently being used by over ¾ million organizations in 161 countries, and sets the standard not only for quality management systems, but management systems in general.

What are the benefits of ISO 9001:2008 certification?

Some of the benefits to your organisation:
•    Provides senior management with an efficient management process
•    Sets out areas of responsibility across the organisation
•    Mandatory if you want to tender for some public sector work
•    Communicates a positive message to staff and customers
•    Identifies and encourages more efficient and time saving processes
•    Highlights deficiencies
•    Reduces your costs
•    Provides continuous assessment and improvement
•    Marketing opportunities
Some of the benefits to your customers:
•    Improved quality and service
•    Delivery on time
•    Right first time attitude
•    Fewer returned products and complaints
•    Independent audit demonstrates commitment to quality

What is in ISO 9001:2008 standard?

The Standard has 8 sections.  The requirements are in sections 4 - 8:

·         Section 4 is an 'overall' one for the system.  It contains requirements applicable to the system throughout, including requirements to define processes, for documentation, and for records

·         Section 5 is about the responsibility of management, particularly 'top management' - the decision-makers.  It includes requirements for customer focus through quality policy, planning, defining responsibilities, setting objectives and reviewing performance

·         Section 6 is about resources.  Its aim is to ensure that people performing work affecting service/product quality are competent, and that suitable infrastructure (from facilities to tools & equipment) is provided.

·         Section 7 is on service/product 'realisation' or core business activities – all the processes & activities involved in delivering your services or products. It contains the most requirements, from communicating with customers, and designing and/or developing products/services through to procurement, identification and controlling production/service delivery, etc.

·         Section 8 covers measurement, analysis and improvement.  It sets requirements for checking how you are performing, assessing performance, identifying and fixing various problems, and improving your system.

A simple overview of the ISO 9001 Standard

This is a 'nutshell' version of the requirements for quality management systems (ISO 9001:2008)

4 Overall Requirements for the System

4.1   Establish a quality management system: develop it, implement it and improve it.

4.2   Document the quality management system.

   4.2.1  Create documents including a quality policy, objectives, manual, procedures and records
   4.2.2  Have a quality manual
   4.2.3  Control documents
   4.2.4  Create and maintain records of your system to show that it works as described.

5 Requirements for Management

5.1  Demonstrate commitment to the quality management system
      Communicate the importance of quality
      Establish a quality policy and objectives.
      Plan and do reviews of your system.
      Make sure adequate resources are available.

5.2  Focus on customers
       Identify customer requirements. 
       Aim to enhance the satisfaction of your customers.

5.3 Adopt and use a quality policy
      Define a suitable quality policy.
      Commit to meeting the system's requirements and to continual improvement.
      Communicate and manage the quality policy.

5.4 Plan for quality

5.4.1  Set measurable objectives (aims/goals).
5.4.2  Have plans that are suitable to achieve the objectives
5.5    Define and communicate 'who does what'
5.5.1  Identify who has what responsibility and authority
5.5.2  Make a senior manager responsible for the quality system overall
5.5.3  Have effective means of communicating internally.

5.6   Review the quality management system (management review)

5.6.1  Review your system at planned intervals
5.6.2 I nclude reviews of customer feedback, performance including nonconformity, results of audits, status of actions, changes and improvements
5.6.3  Record outcomes from your reviews, including actions and decisions.

6 Resource Requirements

6.1 Identify and provide the resources needed to implement, maintain and improve the system, and enhance customer satisfaction.

6.2  Make sure people are suitably competent

6.2.1  Anyone whose work affects product/service conformity must be competent
6.2.2  Decide what competencies are required, provide and maintain them

6.3  Provide infrastructure: Identify what you need, provide and maintain it.

6.4  Provide the work environment you need for product/service conformity.

7 Requirements for Products or Services

7.1 Plan
Plan and develop the processes you need for your products/services.

7.2  Have effective customer-related processes 

7.2.1  Identify requirements that apply to your products/services
7.2.2  Ensure you can supply or deliver before accepting an order
7.2.3  Have effective arrangements to communicate with customers.

7.3  Have effective processes for designing & developing your products/services

7.3.1  Plan design/development.
7.3.2  Define what inputs are needed to design/create/develop
7.3.3  Have a 'design'  or plan in a form that enables you to verify the output against it (see 7.3.5)
7.3.4  Review the design/plan at suitable points
7.3.5  Make sure the result meets the agreed & defined requirements (verification)
7.3.6  Validate design (where practicable).
7.3.7 If changes to design occur, manage them.

7.4 Control any purchasing of goods, materials or services that affects product/service conformity; 'purchasing' includes outsourcing and subcontracting

7.4.1 Make sure what you buy meets the requirements you specified; assess and monitor the suppliers you use.
7.4.2 Describe what you intend to purchase adequately.
7.4.3 Verify that what was purchased did meet the requirements you set 

7.5 Control operations

7.5.1  Have effective ways to control what you do (providing products/ services)
7.5.2  Validate production/service provision where required.
7.5.3  Identify and track services/products where appropriate
7.5.4  Take care of any property supplied by customers
7.5.5 Care for products/components during storage/delivery, etc.to make sure they stay in good condition

7.6 Control measuring and monitoring equipment
Identify what monitoring/measuring equipment and processes your need for valid measurement results.  If equipment is required, choose & use equipment that is suitable equipment. Make sure results are and remain accurate.

8 Requirements for Analysis and Improvement

8.1 Have processes suitable to ensure your services/products conform to requirements and to your quality management system; include improvement.

8.2 Monitor and measure (as necessary) to work out if you achieved the results you planned to

8.2.1 Monitor customer satisfaction.
8.2.2 Plan and implement a program of internal audit
8.2.3 Have appropriate ways to monitor and measure your processes

8.2.4 Monitor and measure products/services at suitable points.
Release final product/service only after requirements have been met.

8.3 Control nonconformity (services/products not meeting requirements)
Identify and control nonconformity suitably; includes written procedure.

8.4 Analyse information from your system
Define the information needed to show your system is working and to improve.
Collect, analyse and use the information.

8.5 Continually improve.

8.5.1 Improve your system.
8.5.2 Have a systematic approach to fix nonconformity and stop it recurring.
8.5.3 Have a systematic approach to prevent potential nonconformity or failures happening

ISO 9001 standard mandatory procedures:

§  Document control procedure 4.2.3

§  Control of Records procedure 4.2.4 

§  Internal audit procedure 8.2.2

§  Control of non-conformance procedure 8.3

§  Corrective action procedure 8.5.2

§  Preventive action procedure 8.5.3

ISO 9001 quality system documentation requirements:

§  Quality policy

§  Quality objectives

§  A quality manual

§  Other documents required for effective planning, operation and control

§  The records specified by ISO 9001