Standards for the food and agriculture sector ensure the safety, quality, and sustainability of food products and farming practices. Covering everything from machinery and production to packaging and traceability, they drive innovation, harmonize practices, and tackle global challenges like food security.

Insights

Climate change: What it is, how it works and why it’s important

News today is rife with reminders of how climate change is affecting people around the world, from wildfires and floods to the loss of biodiversity and even human lives. But what exactly is climate change?

The circular economy: building trust through conformity assessment
Standards and conformity assessment provide assurance on aspects of the circular economy including product lifetime and recyclability, safety and efficiency.
Smart farming: the transformative potential of data-driven agriculture
Smart farming and precision agriculture leverage technologies like agricultural drones, robotics, IoT sensors, GPS and farm management information systems to improve production efficiency.

Sample standards

ISO/DIS 23016-2

Fine bubble technology — Agricultural applications
Part 2: Test method for evaluating the promotion of the germination of barley seeds

Under development
ISO/DIS 18589-7

Measurement of radioactivity in the environment — Soil
Part 7: In situ measurement of gamma-emitting radionuclides

Under development
ISO/DIS 13914

Soil, treated biowaste and sludge — Determination of dioxins and furans and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls by gas chromatography with mass selective detection (HRMS or MS/MS)

Under development
ISO 6080:2024/CD Amd 1

Tobacco heating systems — Vocabulary — Amendment 1

Under development
ISO/DIS 11027

Pepper and pepper oleoresins — Determination of piperine content — Method using high-performance liquid chromatography

Under development
CHF 65
ISO/DIS 11471

Agricultural tractors and machinery — Coding of remote hydraulic power services and controls

Under development
CHF 65
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