ISO 22000 audit: trace a control measure into practice

Decision and conditional example

An audit may follow a selected product from receipt to dispatch. For a control measure, connect its selection, criterion or limit basis, monitoring and the action taken after a deviation. Compare prerequisites with actual site conditions. A traceability exercise is more than preparing a list: evaluate whether movements can be reconstructed backwards and forwards. Review corrections and effectiveness with records and site evidence. Audit and certification decision are separate responsibilities; the resulting system certificate is not a test report or a safety guarantee for every batch.

Evidence linked to this purpose

• Analysis to control implementation
• Deviation and product-action outcome
• Backward and forward traceability test

Standard and authority boundaries

ISO 22000:2018 with its 2024 amendment provides the food-safety management-system framework. A revision project is not a newly published edition. System certification is not a product certificate attesting the safety of every batch. The business retains its food-law and safety responsibilities, including HACCP and prerequisite practices appropriate to its actual activity.

Kayra’s role and the independent decision

The applicant implements the system and prepares procedures specific to its own operations and operating records. A certification enquiry to Kayra concerns actual activities, sites, application information, authority and impartiality risks; this role does not include designing or implementing the client’s system. ISO publishes standards and does not certify organisations. Verify the chosen body’s current standard edition, activity coverage and any claimed accreditation. Preparation does not guarantee approval, legal compliance or authority to certify a newly published edition. A management-system certification body, other parts of the same legal entity and controlled entities cannot offer or provide management-system consultancy; separate contracts do not remove this restriction.

Official sources

Checked: 3 October 2026. Examples are hypothetical explanations, not claims about completed client work, local offices or approval.

• ISO 22000:2018
• ISO 22003-1:2022
• FAO — HACCP validation and verification
• ISO – Certification
• ISO/IEC 17021-1
• GSO ISO/IEC 17021-1