(ISO: Geneva) -- Safer food farming is the principal benefit targeted by a new ISO technical specification, latest in the ISO 22000 series of standards for food safety management systems.

Farms are the first link in many supply chains that bring food to the kitchen table and the new ISO technical specification, ISO/TS 22002-3:2011, has been developed to ensure that farmers implement best practice in maintaining a hygienic environment and play their part in controlling food safety hazards in food chains.

ISO/TS 22002-3 is one of a series of support documents in the ISO 22000 series providing requirements for food-safety prerequisite programs (PRPs). Prerequisite programs address the basic conditions and activities that are necessary for ensuring hygiene throughout the food chain during production, handling, and provision of food safe for human consumption. ISO/TS 22002-3 specifies the requirements and guidelines for design, implementation, and documentation of PRPs for farming.

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