Global Cold Chain Compliance & Regulations — Buyer's Reference

How HACCP (Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points) applies to cold storage: CCPs, temperature limits, monitoring records and audit-ready documentation for food-grade warehouses.

ISO 22000:2018 for cold-chain operators: how it combines HACCP with a certified management system, what auditors check, and what buyers should require in RFQs.

EU F-Gas Regulation 2024/573 explained for buyers: quota system, GWP limits, phase-down calendar, servicing bans, and equivalent regimes in UK, US, and other markets.

Design, safety and testing standards buyers should require for industrial refrigeration plant: EN 378 (EU), ASHRAE 15 (US), ISO 5149 (international), NH₃ codes and Machinery Directive interplay.

What regulators, retailers and pharma customers require from temperature-monitoring systems: sensor density, logging interval, calibration, alarm escalation, audit trail and 21 CFR Part 11 for pharma.

Documents required to export temperature-controlled food and pharma: sanitary/health certificates, phytosanitary, CoA, CoO, temperature-history records, and destination-country attestations.

The complete EU regulatory stack for cold storage and cold-chain operators: 852/2004, 853/2004, F-Gas 2024/573, PED 2014/68, Machinery, EN 378, GDP and TRACES NT.

The US regulatory stack: FSMA / 21 CFR 117, USDA-FSIS for meat and poultry, FDA for seafood and dairy, AIM Act for refrigerants, ASHRAE 15 and IIAR for NH₃ plants.

Post-Brexit UK regulatory stack for cold storage and imports: UKCA / CE dual marking, retained EU F-Gas, PSSR pressure regulations, FSA / DEFRA rules, IPAFFS pre-notification and GB/NI split (Windsor Framework).