(ISO: Geneva) -- As a food manufacturer or a regulator, safety is one of your biggest concerns. But how can you make sure that your food safety management system (FSMS) follows global best practice? If you are looking for advice to ensure your FSMS is up to standard, then ISO 22004 can help you out.

The basics

ISO 22004 is part of the ISO 22000 family of standards. ISO 22000 is the International Standard for food safety management. Unlike other FSMSs, ISO 22000 is unique in that it has an extra layer of hazards control. Most FSMSs require:
• Prerequisite programs (PRPs)
• Critical control points (CCPs)

However, in addition to those two, ISO 22000 adds a third layer:
• Operation prerequisite programmes (OPRPs)

What does this all mean?

If the acronyms and the terminology are getting to you, then you will understand why ISO 22004 is useful.

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