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ISO has over 1600 standards for the food production sector designed to create confidence in food products, improve agricultural methods and promote sustainable and ethical purchasing.

They also cover a number of other areas including nutritional and safety testing, quality, packaging, and traceability.

Focusing specifically on the food sector, the ISO 22000 family of standards on food safety management helps organizations identify and control food safety hazards, while related standards such as ISO 26000 (social responsibility) and ISO 20400 (sustainable procurement) encourage socially responsible behaviour and ethical working conditions for agricultural workers and promote ethical purchasing practices throughout the entire food production chain.

Currently in development, the ISO 34101 series of standards on sustainable and traceable cocoa beans will specify requirements for a management system in cocoa bean farming. It provides a set of guidelines for environmentally sound agricultural practices, the enhanced traceability of cocoa beans and for improving the social conditions and livelihoods of cocoa producers.

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ISO and food

ISO's solutions for ensuring quality and safety in the food industry are the subject of this brochure which provides a concise overview of International Standards available and how they can help.
ISO 22000 Food safety management

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70 standards contributing to SDG 2

Standard and/or project	Sector	TC
IWA 29:2019 Professional farmer organization — Guidelines		ISO/TMBG
ISO/AWI TS 6091 Dried milk — Determination of titratable acidity (Reference method)	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 34/SC 5
ISO/AWI 7851 Fertilizers and soil conditioners — Classification	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 134
ISO/NP 8196-3 Milk — Definition and evaluation of the overall accuracy of alternative methods of milk analysis — Part 3: Protocol for the evaluation and validation of alternative quantitative methods of milk analysis	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 34/SC 5
ISO 14001:2015 Environmental management systems — Requirements with guidance for use	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 207/SC 1
ISO 16075-1:2015 Guidelines for treated wastewater use for irrigation projects — Part 1: The basis of a reuse project for irrigation	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 1
ISO 16075-2:2015 Guidelines for treated wastewater use for irrigation projects — Part 2: Development of the project	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 1
ISO 16075-3:2015 Guidelines for treated wastewater use for irrigation projects — Part 3: Components of a reuse project for irrigation	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 1
ISO 16075-4:2016 Guidelines for treated wastewater use for irrigation projects — Part 4: Monitoring	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 1
ISO 16541:2015 Methods for sea lice surveillance on marine finfish farms	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 234
ISO/WD 18363-4 Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of fatty-acid-bound chloropropanediols (MCPDs) and glycidol by GC/MS — Part 4: Method using fast alkaline transesterification and measurement for 2-MCPD, 3-MCPD and glycidol	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 34/SC 11
ISO 18400-205:2018 Soil quality — Sampling — Part 205: Guidance on the procedure for investigation of natural, near-natural and cultivated sites	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 190/SC 7
ISO/WD TS 19124-1 Geographic information — Calibration and validation of remote sensing data and derived products — Part 1: Fundamentals	Information technology, graphics and photography	ISO/TC 211
ISO 19144-1:2009 Geographic information — Classification systems — Part 1: Classification system structure	Information technology, graphics and photography	ISO/TC 211
ISO 19144-2:2012 Geographic information - Classification systems — Part 2: Land Cover Meta Language (LCML)	Information technology, graphics and photography	ISO/TC 211
ISO 19152:2012 Geographic information — Land Administration Domain Model (LADM)	Information technology, graphics and photography	ISO/TC 211
ISO/DIS 19747 Fertilizers and soil conditioners — Determination of monosilicic acid concentrations in nonliquid fertilizer materials	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 134
ISO 19867-1:2018 Clean cookstoves and clean cooking solutions — Harmonized laboratory test protocols — Part 1: Standard test sequence for emissions and performance, safety and durability	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 285
ISO/TR 19867-3:2018 Clean cookstoves and clean cooking solutions — Harmonized laboratory test protocols — Part 3: Voluntary performance targets for cookstoves based on laboratory testing	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 285
ISO 19869:2019 Clean cookstoves and clean cooking solutions — Field testing methods for cookstoves	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 285
ISO 20400:2017 Sustainable procurement — Guidance		ISO/TMBG
ISO 20419:2018 Treated wastewater reuse for irrigation — Guidelines for the adaptation of irrigation systems and practices to treated wastewater	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 1
ISO 20426:2018 Guidelines for health risk assessment and management for non-potable water reuse	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 3
ISO 20468-1:2018 Guidelines for performance evaluation of treatment technologies for water reuse systems — Part 1: General	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 3
ISO 20468-2:2019 Guidelines for performance evaluation of treatment technologies for water reuse systems — Part 2: Methodology to evaluate performance of treatment systems on the basis of greenhouse gas emissions	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 3
ISO/DIS 20468-3 Guidelines for performance evaluation of treatment technologies for water reuse systems — Part 3: Ozone treatment technology	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 3
ISO/DIS 20468-4 Guidelines for performance evaluation of treatment technologies for water reuse systems — Part 4: UV Disinfection	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 3
ISO/DIS 20468-5 Guidelines for performance evaluation of treatment technologies for water reuse systems — Part 5: Membrane filtration	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 3
ISO/DIS 20468-6 Guidelines for performance evaluation of treatment technologies for water reuse systems — Part 6: Ion exchange and electrodialysis	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 3
ISO/DIS 20468-7 Guidelines for performance evaluation of treatment technologies for water reuse systems — Part 7: Advanced oxidation processes technology	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 3
ISO 20469:2018 Guidelines for water quality grade classification for water reuse	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 3
ISO/CD 20480-3 Fine bubble technology — General principles for usage and measurement of fine bubbles — Part 3: Terminology of fine bubble generating systems	Special technologies	ISO/TC 281
ISO 20670:2018 Water reuse — Vocabulary	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282
ISO/AWI 20670 Water reuse — Vocabulary	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282
ISO 20760-1:2018 Water reuse in urban areas — Guidelines for centralized water reuse system — Part 1: Design principle of a centralized water reuse system	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 2
ISO 20760-2:2017 Water reuse in urban areas — Guidelines for centralized water reuse system — Part 2: Management of a centralized water reuse system	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 2
ISO 20761:2018 Water reuse in urban areas — Guidelines for water reuse safety evaluation — Assessment parameters and methods	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 2
ISO/TR 21276:2018 Clean cookstoves and clean cooking solutions — Vocabulary	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 285
ISO/DIS 21543 Milk and milk products — Guidelines for the application of near infrared spectrometry	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 34/SC 5
ISO/TS 21929-2:2015 Sustainability in building construction — Sustainability indicators — Part 2: Framework for the development of indicators for civil engineering works	Building and construction	ISO/TC 59/SC 17
ISO 21931-2:2019 Sustainability in buildings and civil engineering works — Framework for methods of assessment of the environmental, social and economic performance of construction works as a basis for sustainability assessment — Part 2: Civil engineering works	Building and construction	ISO/TC 59/SC 17
ISO 21939-1:2019 A method to calculate and express energy consumption of industrial wastewater treatment for the purpose of water reuse — Part 1: Biological processes	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 4
ISO 22000:2018 Food safety management systems — Requirements for any organization in the food chain	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 34/SC 17
ISO/CD 22238 Water reuse — A guideline to wastewater disinfection and equivalent treatments	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 1
ISO/AWI 22371 Security and resilience - Urban resilience - Framework, model and guidelines for strategy and implementation	Security, safety and risk	ISO/TC 292
ISO 22447:2019 Industrial wastewater classification	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 4
ISO 22449-1:2020 Use of reclaimed water in industrial cooling systems — Part 1: Technical guidelines	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 4
ISO/FDIS 22449-2 Use of reclaimed water in industrial cooling systems — Part 2: Guidelines for cost analysis	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 4
ISO 22519:2019 Purified water and water for injection pretreatment and production systems	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282
ISO/AWI 22519 Purified water and water for injection pretreatment and production systems	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282
ISO/FDIS 22524 Pilot plan for industrial wastewater treatment facilities in the objective of reuse	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 4
ISO/CD 22948 Carbon footprint for seafood — Product category rules (CFP-PCR) for finfish	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 234
ISO/DIS 23043 Evaluation methods for industrial wastewater treatment reuse processes	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 4
ISO/DIS 23044 Guidelines for softening and desalination of industrial wastewater for reuse	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 4
ISO/DIS 23056 Water reuse in urban areas — Guidelines for decentralized/onsite water reuse system — Design principle of a decentralized/onsite system	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 2
ISO/DIS 23070 Water reuse in urban areas — Guidelines for reclaimed water treatment — Design principle of a RO desalination system of municipal wastewater	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 282/SC 2
ISO/DIS 23970 Milk, milk products and infant formulae — Determination of melamine and cyanuric acid by liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 34/SC 5
ISO/CD 24081 Ground cassava leaves (isombe) — Specification	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 34/SC 3
ISO/AWI 24142 Safety requirements for dry and semi-dry single feed machine, processing systems and complete production line	Mechanical engineering	ISO/TC 293
ISO/NP 24223 Cheese — Guidance on sample preparation for physical and chemical testing	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 34/SC 5
ISO/DIS 24261-1 Fine bubble technology — Elimination method for sample characterization — Part 1: Evaluation procedure	Special technologies	ISO/TC 281
ISO/WD 24378 Feed machinery terminology	Mechanical engineering	ISO/TC 293
ISO 26000:2010 Guidance on social responsibility		ISO/TMBG
ISO/TS 26030:2019 Social responsibility and sustainable development — Guidance on using ISO 26000:2010 in the food chain	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 34
ISO/WD 32210 Framework for sustainable finance: Principles and guidance	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 322
ISO 34101-1:2019 Sustainable and traceable cocoa — Part 1: Requirements for cocoa sustainability management systems	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 34/SC 18
ISO 34101-2:2019 Sustainable and traceable cocoa — Part 2: Requirements for performance (related to economic, social and environmental aspects)	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 34/SC 18
ISO 34101-3:2019 Sustainable and traceable cocoa — Part 3: Requirements for traceability	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 34/SC 18
ISO 34101-4:2019 Sustainable and traceable cocoa — Part 4: Requirements for certification schemes	Food and agriculture	ISO/TC 34/SC 18
ISO 37101:2016 Sustainable development in communities — Management system for sustainable development — Requirements with guidance for use	Sustainability and environment	ISO/TC 268