ISO 22000 is the management system implemented for defining the current and potential hazards in the food supply chain, in order to control these hazards defining implementing, monitoring preventions, evaluating and analyzing the results, continual improvement of the applications.
At the present day food safety is the all world concerning subject. Epidemic diseases spread through food do not only have effects on human life but also have lots of destructive effects on organizations and countries’ economies. Every year, hundreds of people are caught diseases due to food poisoning on worldwide and food manufacturer companies give immeasurable harm to their prestige by paying for damages.
Guaranteeing the quality and food safety is inevitable necessity for continuity of all organizations “Farm To Fork” in the food chain. For this reason risk management becomes a must for all organizations like restaurants, catering organizations, packaging service performing organizations, equipment and chemical producers relating to food production and concerning activities, service organizations working on pest control, cleaning, transportation and logistics and all organizations that want to safeguard their position.
Intermediate and final consumers prefer reliable organizations that could give the needed give guaranty. To win this confidence, organizations should prove that they have the food safety management system covering all processes and being applied effectively.
ISO 22000 is valid for all organizations in the global food supply chain and is an international standard. ISO 22000 provides the infrastructure about the subject of consistency to international standards and covers the most of the requirements of current Food Safety standards. The structure of the ISO 22000 is consistent with the clauses of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 management systems.
This development shows that organizations need approaches for providing continual improvement of environmental applications and controlling interactions with the environment.