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Is ISO 22000 mandatory? Food duties and buyer requirements
Verify food-law responsibilities separately from the request for system certification.
Decision and conditional example
Determine registration, hygiene, control and other food-business duties through official sources for the jurisdiction and activity. Certification does not transfer these responsibilities. If a buyer requests an ISO system or another scheme, confirm products, food-chain role, edition and accepted body in writing. ISO 22000 and a different food-certification programme do not necessarily follow the same assessment route. A business without a certificate still has food-safety duties, while a certified business cannot treat every product as proven safe. Plan compliance work and the requested independent assessment separately.
Evidence linked to this purpose
- Official food-business obligations
- Buyer’s programme and scope
- Certificate versus business responsibility
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.