ISO 22000

The following table explains the relationship and alignment between ISO 22000 and the Codex Alimentarius General Principles of Food Hygiene, CXC 1-1969.

FSSC 22000 is a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) approved scheme, also referred to as a certification programme owner (CPO).

[13] In the early 1990s, the application of ISO 9000:1987 series of standards were embraced by the food industry in the European Union (EU).

This led to these two systems being combined, where ISO 9001 was certified along with HACCP as a single management tool in organizations.

In Europe, ISO 9001 and HACCP were used by companies as a "due diligence" defense against prosecution under the 1990 Food Safety Act.

This path was diverted when the British Retail Consortium published the BRC Food Technical Standard, in 1998.

[16] The BRC decision to publish as a stand-alone standard, instead of publishing as an addendum and adding food safety requirements to support ISO 9001, led to the Global Food Safety Initiative creating a benchmarking model for harmonization of private standards.

In 2004, the European Office of Crafts, Trades and Small and Medium sized Enterprises for Standardisation noted that the standard is only suitable for large sized companies and small food businesses will not be able to seek such a high standard due to the lack of resources to pursue the certification.

This takes a process approach and risk-based thinking into consideration where risks are addressed at both organizational and operational levels which include food safety, worker safety and environmental and are from the primary production in the supply chains and the later stages of food processing.