Uncovering the Relationship Between ISO 22000 and ISO 9001

Corporate Secretary Service Indonesia – It is natural for everyone to want to avoid the onset of disease due to the food they consume.  As a consequence, food producers are also required to always produce food that is safe for consumers.  For this reason, a way is needed to help food companies identify hazards that may arise from their products as well as control these hazards.

A widely recognized system for ensuring food safety is HACCP (Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Point).  The HACCP system uses a systematic and logical approach to identify hazards and control them.  This food safety system has been proven to be effectively applied in various food industries around the world.  In its application, HACCP is often integrated with other systems in the company, for example with quality systems such as ISO 9001:2000 (Quality Management System), to better satisfy the needs of customers and consumers in terms of quality and food safety.

The Emergence of ISO 22000

As food safety hazards can arise at any point in the food chain (from primary production to consumers), adequate controls are needed at each of these points.  To help ensure food safety throughout the food chain, in September 2005 the International Organization for Standardization published the ISO 22000:2005 Standard.

The purpose of this international standard is to harmonize food safety system requirements globally, so that it can be applied to any organization involved in the food chain, regardless of size.  In addition, the standard also requires an organization to meet the requirements of consumers as well as laws and regulations.

Does ISO 22000 Embrace the Concept of Quality?

Since before its publication, there has been a view that ISO 22000 is a combination of HACCP (Food Safety System) and ISO (ISO here means ISO 9001 – Quality Management System), so that its requirements cover both quality and food safety.  Is this really the case? In fact, ISO 22000 conceptually contains requirements for a Food Safety Management System that is built on four key elements, namely:

• Interactive Communication
• Management System
• Prerequisite Program
• HACCP Principles

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In other words, ISO 22000 is a standard that integrates HACCP and prerequisite programs in a management system supported by external and internal communication.  Its requirements focus on food safety and do not address quality issues.

Thus, there is a clear distinction between ISO 9001 which talks about Quality Management Systems and ISO 22000 which talks about Food Safety Management Systems and ISO 9001 is not part of ISO 22000.  Nonetheless, the clauses of ISO 22000 are made equivalent to ISO 9001 thereby enhancing the compatibility of the two standards.  To help understand the equivalence, the standard comes with a cross reference comparing ISO 22000 and ISO 9001. 

Marrying ISO 22000 and ISO 9001

The equivalence means that these two standards (quality management system and food safety management system) can be applied to all organizations involved in the food chain as an integrated system.  An example of the integration of these two systems is the creation of a company policy that covers both quality and food safety issues.  The policy is then supported by quality and food safety objectives.

To ensure implementation, internal audits can be conducted that include quality and food safety audits, the results of which become one of the inputs for management reviews where the effectiveness of both systems is reviewed.  The implementation of these two standards in an integrated system will better ensure customer and consumer satisfaction in terms of food quality and safety, thus becoming one of the strengths for the industries that implement them to win the increasingly fierce market competition.

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