New Standard from Last Update.

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian standard which is identical with ISO 22003-2 : 2022 ‘Food Safety – Part 2 : Requirements for bodies providing evaluation and certification of products, processes and services, including an audit of the food safety system’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Food Hygiene, Safety Management and Other Systems Sectional Committee and approval of the Food and Agriculture Division Council.

This standard was originally published in 2009 covering requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of food safety management systems, as an identical adoption of ISO/TS 22003 : 2007 under single numbering.

The first revision of this standard was undertaken in 2018 to align it with latest version of ISO/TS 22003 : 2013. Subsequently, ISO/TS 22003 was revised in 2022 and split into following two parts under the general title ‘Food safety’:

Part 1 Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of food safety management systems

Part 2 Requirements for bodies providing evaluation and certification of products, processes and services, including an audit of the food safety system

Accordingly, in this second revision, the standard has been split into two parts. Part 1 is an identical adoption of ISO 22003-1 : 2022 and Part 2 is an identical adoption of ISO 22003-2 : 2022.

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those us ed in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever thewords ‘InternationalStandard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.

In this adopted standard, reference appears to the following International Standards for which Indian Standard also exists. The corresponding Indian Standard which is to be substituted in its place listed below along with its degree of equivalence for the edition indicated: