ISO 22000 certification sets out the requirements for a food safety management system for the production, processing, transport or distribution of food products. The standard outlines what an organisation needs to do to demonstrate its ability to control food safety hazards in order to ensure that food remains safe.
Food safety management systems (FSMS) are the set of processes, methods and systems that a company adopts to ensure that all food products it processes or sells are safe. A FSMS consists of a number of steps required to ensure the safe internal control of food safety during every stage of production, transportation and storage.
An international standard known as ISO 22000 outlines the specifications needed to create a food safety management system. This is a checklist for FSMS :