What is the ISO? It is  a very common question around the world among the product and service producers and consumers too. So let’s know what is the short form of this word ISO. ISO is a short form of International Organization for Standardization.

ISO has comes from Greek world “isos” means equal. Later from ISOS has changed into English world ISO. Worldwide all manufactures will maintain a same standard for producing product or services. Establishing ISO was the major aim of that.

ISO is an  organization which was founded in Geneva city of  Switzerland. In 1947 first it started its journey to protect customer’s right. From the beginning this organization has been introducing various standards time to time  for products and service oriented organization. By adopting and implementing those standards a organization can claim that it is maintaining a standard which is accepted internationally.

Since 1947 until now ISO organization has introduced 19,000 standards. Now 164 countries are the members of this organization. This is a great friend of world population. It has been working as a safeguard of consumers around the world.

Manufacturers or service providers always think about profit. Sometimes they do not maintain a minimum standard or quality to  present good product or services to the people. But if a organization adopt an  ISO standards in his organization, then the organization is bound to abide by some rules and regulation which is very consumers friendly.

Food poisoning is a great concern nowadays. In this regard ISO has  contributed a lot by introducing a standard HACCP 22000. By this standard a company is committed to produce quality food or food products for its customers. In the  food industry this is a widely used ISO standard for food manufacturers.

So, we can come to a conclusion that ISO is a great welfare based nonprofit organization which has been working for consumers. For producing quality products or services it’s contribution is lot.

For developing countries it is a great friend for accessing his product in the international market. By accepting and implementing a specific ISO standard a manufacturer easily can claim that he is producing quality product or services. So easily he can sell his product in the International market. This way manufacturers from developing countries can be benefited from ISO.