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ISO 22000: Food Safety

Anticipate, manage and mitigate food safety risks

ISO 22000 is an international standard defining good food safety management practices throughout the food supply chain...

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Recently, the food industry and its consumers have been directly affected by an escalation of food safety concerns, resulting in potential legal action, consumer illness and in some cases, death.

• What steps are you taking to help ensure your food safety processes?

• How do you manage and improve your traceability programs?

• What are you doing to protect your consumers, brand and reputation?

• Are you able to demonstrate credibility in your food safety claims?

LRQA offers an accredited solution to help you answer these questions

ISO 22000 certification from LRQA publicly demonstrates your commitment to food safety, security and improved traceability, offering a competitive advantage for your business.

ISO 22000 certification can help you:

• Identify, manage, mitigate and improve your food safety processes and communication throughout the supply chain

• Integrate food safety management with quality management and business processes

• Reduce and even eliminate reactive food safety practices, including product recalls and litigation

• Manage and improve performance in key metric areas such as reduced food safety risks, reduced costs, improved efficiency and control/reduction of food safety hazards

• Gain recognition and credibility of independent verification of your food safety claims

• Protect your brand image and prove your business is taking steps to manage food safety risks

• Gain accreditation and competitive edge over uncertified businesses as you demonstrate globally recognized good food safety management practices

• Realize continual improvement in areas that can be costly to your business

• And more

One of the strongest appeals of ISO 22000 is that it can be applied throughout the food supply chain, from growers to producers and processes to packaging, transport and finally the point of sale.

If your organization is specifically involved in food manufacturing and processing, you may wish to achieve additional certification to PAS 220 and/or FSSC 22000.

Over half of the world’s top 200 companies choose LRQA.

We’re a market leader in the provision of ISO 22000 assessment, certification and training. Over half the world’s top 200 companies select LRQA for their certification and Business Assurance needs.

Starting with an independent, impartial review of your system, LRQA can work with you to understand your business needs, benchmark your processes and determine your most practical route to ISO 22000 certification, training and Business Assurance. If you’re already ISO 22000 certified, we can work with you to transfer your certification with ease.

Learn more about PAS 220 and FSSC 22000. 

View LRQA's food safety training options!