Standards

This stand prescribes the requirements for honey produced by the honeybees Apis mellifera and Meliponini sp. It specifies three grades of honey with requirements for production, handling, packaging, labelling, analytic sampling and testing of honey that is intended or offered for sale in the Caribbean Community. This standard takes into account the management of equipment and storage conditions of honey, and requirements for hygienic production that assures the safety of food for human consumption.

This document specifies requirements for a food safety management system [FSMS] to enable an organization that is directly or indirectly involved in the food chain.

a) to plan, implement, operate, maintain and update a FSMS providing products and services that are safe, in accordance with their intended use;

b) to demonstrate compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory food safety requirements) to evaluate and assess mutually agreed customer food safety requirements and to demonstrate conformity with them;

d) to effectively communicate food safety issues to interested parties within the food chain;

e) to ensure that the organization conforms to its stated food safety policy;

f) to demonstrate conformity to relevant interested parties;

g) to seek certification or registration of its FSMS by an external organization, or make a self-assessment or self-declaration of conformity to this document.

This document specifies general terms and definitions relating to conformity assessment (including the accreditation of conformity assessment bodies) and to the use of conformity assessment to facilitate trade.

The general principles of conformity assessment and a description of the functional approach to conformity assessment are provided in Annex A. 

Conformity assessment interacts with other fields such as management systems, metrology, standardization and statistics. The boundaries of conformity assessment are not defined in this document.

ISO/IEC 17000:2004 specifies general terms and definitions relating to conformity assessment, including the accreditation of conformity assessment bodies, and to the use of conformity assessment to facilitate trade. A description of the functional approach to conformity assessment is included as a further aid to understanding among users of conformity assessment, conformity assessment bodies and their accreditation bodies, in both voluntary and regulatory environments.

ISO/IEC 17000:2004 does not set out to provide a vocabulary for all of the concepts that may need to be used in describing particular conformity assessment activities. Terms and definitions are given only where the concept defined would not be understandable from the general language use of the term or where an existing standard definition is not applicable.

This document specifies requirements for safe practices in the medical laboratory (herein after referred to as “the laboratory”).

This International Standard specifies requirements for safe practices in the medical laboratory.

This standard applies to the products known as achar, amchar and kuchela which are prepared from edible fruits such as green or unripe mangoes (Mangifera indica), golden apple (Pommecythere spp.), june plum (Spondias spp.), tamarind (Tamarindua indica) and chalta elephant fruit (Dillenia indica), as the predominant ingredients and blended with spices and additives prior to packaging

This standard specifies the labelling requirements for aerosol insecticides in pressurized dispensers intended for household use