ISO 22000 Food Safety Standard in Plain English

The ISO 22000 2005 standard is a food safety management standard.
Use it to establish and certify your food safety management system (FSMS).

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English food safety standard. If you need the complete detailed standard, please
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ISO 22000 defines a set of food safety management system requirements.
These food safety management requirements are listed in sections 4 to 8.
Therefore, the following ISO 22000 material starts with section 4.

ISO 22000 FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT STANDARD IN PLAIN ENGLISH
	5. Food Safety Management Requirements
5.1 Demonstrate a commitment to food safety	Make sure that your organization's top managers demonstrate a commitment to their food safety management system (FSMS). Make sure that top managers support the establishment of a FSMS. Make sure that top managers can prove that they support their FSMS.
5.2 Establish your food safety policy	Make sure that your top managers establish a food safety policy. Make sure that your top managers communicate their support for your organization's food safety policy. Make sure that your top managers ensure that your food safety policy is implemented throughout your organization.
5.3 Plan your food safety management system (FSMS)	*Make sure that top managers plan the development* of your FSMS. Make sure that top managers plan the documentation of your FSMS. Make sure that top managers plan the implementation of your FSMS. Make sure that top managers plan the maintenance of your FSMS. Make sure that top managers plan the evaluation of your FSMS. Make sure that top managers plan the modification of your FSMS.**
5.4 Clarify your FSMS responsibilities and authorities	Make sure that your top managers define your organization's FSMS responsibilities and authorities. Make sure that your top managers communicate about FSMS responsibilities and authorities. Make sure that all personnel are responsible for reporting your organization's FSMS problems. Make sure that designated personnel are given the responsibility and authority to solve FSMS problems.
5.5 Appoint a food safety team leader	Give your team leader the job of managing your FSMS. Give your team leader the authority to establish your FSMS. Give your team leader the responsibility to report on your FSMS.
5.6 Establish your communications	*5.6.1 Establish external* communication arrangements.** Allocate the responsibility and authority to communicate externally about food safety. Establish effective external communication arrangements to address food safety issues. Implement effective external communication arrangements to address food safety issues. Maintain effective external communication arrangements to address food safety issues. *5.6.2 Establish internal* communication arrangements.** Establish effective internal communication arrangements. Implement effective internal communication arrangements. Maintain effective internal communication arrangements.
5.7 Develop emergency response procedures	Establish procedures to manage food safety emergencies and accidents. Implement procedures to manage food safety emergencies and accidents. Maintain procedures to manage food safety emergencies and accidents.
5.8 Carry out FSMS management reviews	5.8.1 Review your organization's food safety management system. Carry out regular food safety management system reviews. Keep a record of your food safety management reviews. 5.8.2 Examine management review inputs. Review information (inputs) about your FSMS. Ensure that review inputs allow top managers to see whether stated FSMS objectives are being achieved. 5.8.3 Generate management review outputs. Generate decisions and actions (outputs) that assure the safety of the food products that fall within your FSMS. Generate decisions and actions (outputs) to improve the effectiveness of your organization’s FSMS. Generate decisions and actions (outputs) to update your organization’s food safety policy. Generate decisions and actions (outputs) to revise your organization’s food safety objectives. Generate decisions and actions (outputs) to address FSMS resource needs.

ISO 22000 FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT STANDARD IN PLAIN ENGLISH
	6. Food Safety Resource Requirements
6.1 Provide adequate FSMS resources	*Provide resources needed to establish* your organization's FSMS. Provide resources needed to implement your organization's FSMS. Provide resources needed to maintain your organization's FSMS. Provide resources needed to update your organization's FSMS.**
6.2 Provide adequate human resources	6.2.1 Provide competent food safety personnel. Make sure that food safety personnel are competent. Maintain a record of the contracts and agreements you have with external food safety management system (FSMS) experts. 6.2.2 Provide training and awareness programs. Identify the competencies that personnel who influence food safety must have. Deliver training to ensure that personnel have the competencies they need. Make personnel aware of how their individual job performance influences food safety. Evaluate the effectiveness of FSMS training and awareness activities. Maintain a record of FSMS training.
6.3 Provide adequate infrastructure	Establish the infrastructure needed to comply with ISO 22000. Maintain the infrastructure needed to comply with ISO 22000.
6.4 Provide adequate work environment	Establish the work environment needed to comply with ISO 22000. Manage the work environment needed to comply with ISO 22000. Maintain the work environment needed to comply with ISO 22000.

ISO 22000 FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT STANDARD IN PLAIN ENGLISH
	7. Food Safety Realization Requirements
7.1 Manage the realization of safe products	Plan the processes needed to realize safe products. Develop the processes needed to realize safe products. Implement the processes needed to realize safe products. Operate the processes needed to realize safe products.
7.2 Establish your prerequisite programs (PRPs)	7.2.1 Implement prerequisite programs (PRPs). Establish PRPs for your organization. Implement your organization's PRPs. Maintain your organization's PRPS. 7.2.2 Make sure that your PRPs are suitable. Make sure that your PRPs meet your organization’s unique food safety needs. Make sure that your PRPs reflect and respect the nature of your organization and how it operates. Make sure that your PRPs meet legal requirements. Make sure that your food safety team formally approves your PRPs before they are implemented. 7.2.3 Make sure that your PRPs are effective. Consider appropriate information from external sources and use it to establish your organization’s PRPs. Consider your organization’s circumstances and structure as you establish your particular PRPs. Consider your organization’s service providers and suppliers as you establish your particular PRPs. Consider how you’re going to ensure that your organization’s PRPs are implemented and effective.
7.3 Get ready to do a hazard analysis	7.3.1 Gather preliminary information. Collect the information you will need in order to conduct your hazard analysis. Document all relevant information before you carry out your hazard analysis. 7.3.2 Appoint a food safety team. Appoint a multidisciplinary food safety team to develop and implement your organization’s FSMS. Maintain records that show that your food safety team has the necessary knowledge and experience. 7.3.3 Describe product characteristics. 7.3.3.1 Describe ingredients and materials. 7.3.3.2 Describe end product characteristics. 7.3.4 Document the intended use of end products. Describe the intended use of your end products and document these descriptions. Describe how you expect your end products to be handled under reasonable circumstances. Identify user groups for each end product. Make sure that your intended use documents are kept up to date. Use your intended use documents to prepare for your hazard analysis. 7.3.5 Prepare flow diagrams and describe controls. 7.3.5.1 Prepare flow diagrams for your products. 7.3.5.2 Describe existing controls and procedures.
7.4 Perform your organization's hazard analysis	7.4.1 Assess your food safety hazards and controls. Make sure that your organization’s food safety team carries out a hazard analysis. Make sure that your food safety team selects the measures that should be used to control hazards. 7.4.2 Identify hazards and define acceptable levels. 7.4.2.1 Identify your food safety hazards. 7.4.2.2 Consider your hazard environment. 7.4.2.3 Specify acceptable hazard levels. 7.4.3 Assess your organization's food safety hazards. Carry out a hazard assessment for each one of your organization’s food safety hazards. Describe your hazard assessment methodology. Record results of your food safety hazard assessment. 7.4.4 Select measures to control your hazards. Use your hazard assessment to select control measures that are capable of controlling your organization’s food safety hazards. Review your existing food safety control measures. Study each control measure and decide whether you should use your operational PRPs or your HACCP plan to manage it (categorize each control measure). Implement your food safety control measures. Document the methodology and the parameters that were used to categorize your food safety control measures. Record the results of your categorization decisions.
7.5 Establish your operational prerequisite programs (OPRPs)	Indicate which hazards will be controlled by each OPRP. Identify the control measures that will be used by each OPRP. Define the procedures that will be used to monitor your OPRPs. Clarify corrections and corrective actions for your OPRPs.
7.6 Establish your HACCP plan	7.6.1 Document your organization's HACCP plan. Establish an HACCP plan to control your organization’s food safety hazards. 7.6.2 Identify your critical control points (CCPs). Identify CCPs for each of the control measures that will be used by your HACCP plan to manage and control food safety hazards. 7.6.3 Specify critical limits for each critical control point (CCP). Specify critical limits for each CCP in order to ensure that you do not exceed acceptable food safety hazard levels for end products. Explain why you have chosen your particular critical limits and document your rationale. Use your critical limits to ensure that you do not exceed acceptable food safety hazard levels. 7.6.4 Monitor your critical control points (CCPs). Establish a monitoring system for each CCP. Establish procedures and instructions to help you monitor your CCPs and critical limits. Establish a record keeping system to track your CCP monitoring activities. 7.6.5 Respond to critical limit violations. Use your HACCP plan to describe the actions you plan to take when you exceed or violate critical limits. Establish and maintain procedures to handle products that are potentially unsafe.
7.7 Update preliminary documents and programs	Update documents previously used for your hazard analysis. Update your organization's prerequisite programs (PRPs). Update your organization's HACCP plan (if necessary).
7.8 Plan and perform your verification activities	Plan your organization's FSMS verification activities. Verify that your FSMS has been implemented. Record the results of your verification activities. Report verification results to your food safety team.
7.9 Establish a product traceability system	*Make sure that your system can trace product lots.* *Make sure that your system can trace supplied materials.* *Make sure that your system can trace product distribution.*
7.10 Control your nonconforming products	7.10.1 Identify and correct nonconforming products. Identify and control the use and release of all nonconforming products. Establish a procedure to manage and control your nonconforming end products. Manage and control your product corrections. 7.10.2 Evaluate data and take corrective actions. Evaluate data derived from the monitoring of food safety hazards and control measures. Establish and maintain corrective action procedures. Use your procedures to take corrective actions. Record the corrective actions you have taken. 7.10.3 Manage potentially unsafe products. 7.10.3.1 Control potentially unsafe products. 7.10.3.2 Evaluate potentially unsafe products. 7.10.3.3 Reprocess or dispose of unsafe products. 7.10.4 Withdraw and secure unsafe products. Appoint personnel and give them the authority to manage the withdrawal of unsafe end product lots. Establish and maintain a procedure to control the withdrawal of unsafe end product lots. Use your procedure to withdraw unsafe product lots. Secure or supervise all withdrawn end product lots. Record your unsafe product withdrawal activities. Report unsafe product withdrawals to top management. Use appropriate techniques to verify the effectiveness of your organization’s product withdrawal program. Record the effectiveness of your withdrawal program.

ISO 22000 FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT STANDARD IN PLAIN ENGLISH
	8. Food Safety Confirmation Requirements
8.1 Confirm and improve food safety methods	Plan how to confirm that food safety methods are working. Implement plans to confirm that food safety methods are working.
8.2 Validate food safety control measures	Validate your control measures before you implement them. Make sure that your validations can confirm that your food safety control measures are effective. Revalidate your control measures whenever you change them.
8.3 Control your monitoring and measuring methods	Prove that monitoring and measuring methods are adequate. Verify your organization's measuring methods and equipment. Validate your monitoring and measuring software.
8.4 Verify your food safety management system (FSMS)	8.4.1 Perform regular internal audits. Establish an internal audit program. Plan your internal audit projects. Perform regular internal audits of your FSMS. Make sure that your managers solve problems discovered in their areas by internal auditors. Follow up on the actions taken by managers to solve problems discovered during internal audits. 8.4.2 Evaluate your verification results. Make sure that your food safety team evaluates the specific results of previous verification activities. Take action if your evaluation shows that your FSMS fails to comply with your planned arrangements. 8.4.3 Analyze your verification results. Make sure that your food safety team analyses the specific results of previous verification activities. Confirm that your FSMS meets requirements. Figure out if your FSMS needs to be changed. Identify potentially unsafe product trends. Collect information to help you plan internal audits. Collect evidence that proves that actions taken to address nonconformities are effective. Record the results of your verification analysis and the activities that result from your analysis. Report the results of your verification analysis and the activities that result from your analysis. Use your analytical results and activities as input to help you update your organization’s FSMS.
8.5 Improve your food safety management system (FSMS)	*8.5.1 Continually* improve your organization's FSMS.** Use communication to help you continually improve the effectiveness of your FSMS. Use management reviews to help you continually improve the effectiveness of your FSMS. Use internal audits to help you continually improve the effectiveness of your FSMS. Use corrective actions to help you continually improve the effectiveness of your FSMS. Use verification studies and research to help you continually improve the effectiveness of your FSMS. Use control measure validation results to help you continually improve the effectiveness of your FSMS. *8.5.2 Continually update* your organization's FSMS. Make sure that top management actively ensures that your organization continually updates its FSMS. Make sure that your food safety team evaluates your FSMS at planned intervals. Make sure that your food safety team studies their evaluation reports and then decides whether food safety programs and plans should be reviewed. Update your organization’s FSMS. Record your FSMS updating activities. Report your FSMS updating activities.**

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ISO 22000 FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT STANDARD IN PLAIN ENGLISH
	4. Food Safety System Requirements
4.1 Establish a food safety management system (FSMS)	Develop an effective food safety management system. Document your food safety management system. Implement your food safety management system. Maintain your food safety management system. Evaluate your food safety management system. Update your food safety management system.
4.2 Document your food safety management system (FSMS)	4.2.1 Develop your food safety management documents. Develop a food safety policy document. Develop the procedures required by this standard. Develop the records required by this standard. 4.2.2 Control your food safety management documents. Develop a procedure to control your FSMS documents. Document your FSMS document control procedure. 4.2.3 Control your food safety records. Establish a set of records for your FSMS. Develop a procedure to control your FSMS records. Document your FSMS record control procedure.

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ISO 22000 2005

FOOD SAFETY STANDARD