According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 815million people in the world go to bed hungry, while 1.9billion people are overweight.
ISO has more than 1,600 international standards for the food production sector that they claim directly help to end world hunger by creating confidence in food products, improving agricultural methods and promoting sustainable and ethical purchasing.
These include nearly 850 standards from one of ISO’s most established technical committees, which encompass everything from animal welfare to food products, such as cereals and milk, and ingredients testing.
It is also responsible for the recently updated ISO 22000 series on food safety management that covers standards related to food manufacturing, farming, packaging, catering and animal foodstuffs and feed production.
Also in the pipeline is technical specification which will give guidance on how to integrate the core issues of social responsibility into the food chain, thereby contributing to many of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by providing recommendations to businesses on how they can operate in an ethical, transparent and sustainable way.