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ISO 22000 — Food safety
ISO 22000:2018 clause by clause: from the context of the food business to verification of the hazard control plan, with what the auditor looks for at each step.
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- 1 Context of the organisation Internal and external issues, interested parties in the food chain and the scope of the system. Clause 4
- 2 Leadership Top management commitment, the food safety policy and the food safety team leader. Clause 5
- 3 Planning System risks versus product hazards, measurable objectives and planned changes. Clause 6
- 4 Support and suppliers People, infrastructure, externally developed elements, suppliers, competence, communication and documents. Clause 7
- 5 Prerequisites, traceability and emergencies Prerequisite programmes and the ISO 22002 series, the traceability system and emergency preparedness. Clause 8 (8.1 to 8.4)
- 6 Hazard control and the HACCP/OPRP plan Hazard analysis, validation, the CCP and OPRP control plan, verification and unsafe product. Clause 8 (8.5 to 8.9)
- 7 Performance evaluation Monitoring and analysis, internal audit of the system and management review. Clause 9
- 8 Improvement and updating of the system Nonconformities and corrective actions, continual improvement and updating of the system. Clause 10
Every chapter of ISO 22000 explained
ISO 22000:2018 shares the high-level structure of ISO 9001 — context, leadership, planning, support, operation, evaluation and improvement — and combines it with the seven HACCP principles of the Codex Alimentarius. Its distinctive feature is the double PDCA cycle: one for the management system and an operational one that plans, applies and verifies hazard controls.
This path devotes two chapters to clause 8, because that is where the audit is won or lost: one on prerequisites, traceability and emergencies, and another on hazard analysis, the control plan and its verification. If your customer asks for FSSC 22000, everything that follows still applies: the scheme adds requirements on top of this standard, not instead of it.
Clauses are cited using the numbering of the 2018 edition, which is the current one. ISO is working on a third edition, still at draft stage; when it is published it will have its own transition period.
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References to the official text in force. If a standard is revised, this page is updated and the review date says so.
- ISO 22000:2018 — Food safety management systems. Requirements for any organization in the food chain ISO · 2018 ed. (2nd edition), published June 2018
- ISO 22000:2018/Amd 1:2024 — Climate action changes ISO · February 2024
- ISO/DIS 22000 — Draft revision of the standard (3rd edition) ISO · Under development
- ISO 22002-100:2025 — Prerequisite programmes on food safety. Part 100: requirements for the food, feed and packaging chain ISO · 29 July 2025
- ISO 22002-1:2025 — Prerequisite programmes on food safety. Part 1: food manufacturing ISO · 29 July 2025; replaces ISO/TS 22002-1:2009
- General Principles of Food Hygiene, CXC 1-1969 Codex Alimentarius (FAO/WHO) · 2020 revision
- Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs EUR-Lex · 29 April 2004
- Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, Articles 18 and 19 (traceability and withdrawal) EUR-Lex · 28 January 2002