The proposed standards cover food manufacturing, catering, packaging, transport, storage, animal feed, retail and wholesale. UNBS has asked stakeholders to submit comments by 2 October 2026.
UGANDA — The Uganda National Bureau of Standards is seeking final stakeholder comments on seven international standards governing the prerequisite programmes that support food-safety management across the food, feed and packaging supply chain.
UNBS, through Technical Committee 208 on Food Labelling and Hygiene, is considering adopting seven parts of the ISO 22002:2025 series as Uganda Standards.
The Bureau’s consultation notice asks food businesses, industry associations, laboratories, consultants, auditors, consumer organisations and other stakeholders to submit comments by 2 October 2026.
Seven parts of the food chain covered
The proposed standards are:
- ISO 22002-1:2025: Food manufacturing
- ISO 22002-2:2025: Catering
- ISO 22002-4:2025: Food packaging manufacturing
- ISO 22002-5:2025: Transport and storage
- ISO 22002-6:2025: Feed and animal food production
- ISO 22002-7:2025: Retail and wholesale
- ISO 22002-100:2025: Common requirements for the food, feed and packaging supply chain
Prerequisite programmes, commonly known as PRPs, are the basic environmental and operational conditions needed to control food-safety hazards. They cover areas such as hygienic facility design, cleaning and disinfection, pest control, personal hygiene, storage, transport and the management of incoming materials.
They operate alongside hazard analysis and critical control point systems and broader food-safety management standards such as ISO 22000.
The proposed standards apply to organisations of different sizes and levels of complexity, although businesses may justify excluding individual requirements when doing so would not compromise food safety.
One common foundation, followed by sector requirements
The most significant change in the 2025 series is the introduction of ISO 22002-100 as a common foundation for the food, feed and packaging supply chain.
Instead of repeating the same hygiene and operational requirements in every sector document, Part 100 brings the shared requirements together. Each organisation then applies the sector-specific standard relevant to its activities.
A food manufacturer, for example, would use ISO 22002-100 together with ISO 22002-1. A packaging manufacturer would combine Part 100 with ISO 22002-4, while a retailer or wholesaler would use it with ISO 22002-7.
ISO says this structure is intended to improve consistency, reduce duplicated requirements and make implementation and auditing easier for organisations operating in more than one part of the supply chain.
Five of the sector standards replace earlier ISO technical specifications covering manufacturing, catering, packaging, transport and storage, and animal feed. The retail and wholesale standard and the common Part 100 standard are first editions.
The documents were published as full International Standards in July 2025, replacing the former ISO/TS structure.
Relevance to certified food businesses
The proposed national adoption is also relevant to Ugandan companies certified to, or preparing for, FSSC 22000 Version 7.
Released on 1 May 2026, Version 7 incorporates ISO 22002-100 and the applicable sector-specific part of the new series. FSSC 22000 Version 6 audits may continue until 30 April 2027, while Version 7 upgrade audits are scheduled between 1 May 2027 and 30 April 2028.
However, the UNBS consultation and FSSC certification are separate processes. A company’s obligations under a certification scheme do not depend solely on whether Uganda adopts the standards nationally.
Similarly, the consultation does not mean the seven documents have already become Uganda Standards or that every food business will automatically be legally required to implement them.
UNBS has not announced a national publication date, implementation period or whether any of the proposed standards could later be declared compulsory.
What stakeholders should examine
Before the consultation closes, affected organisations may need to consider:
- Whether the requirements are practical for small and medium-sized food businesses
- Whether the terminology is clear and consistent with existing Ugandan regulations and standards
- The availability and cost of the complete standards
- Training and audit-capacity requirements
- How businesses operating across several sectors will apply Part 100 with multiple sector standards
- Whether a transition period will be required after national adoption
UNBS says copies of the ISO standards can be accessed through its Information and Resource Centre at Standards House in Bweyogerere. Comments should be submitted using the form provided on the Bureau’s public-review portal.
The consultation provides affected businesses with an opportunity to examine the requirements before they become part of Uganda’s national standards catalogue.
Deadline note: The detailed UNBS invitation states that comments should be submitted by 2 October 2026, although the automated public-review listing displays a review period ending on 3 October. Stakeholders should use 2 October as the operative deadline unless UNBS confirms otherwise.