INTRODUCTION
Food quality and safety are an important criterion of "quality of life" in all countries of the world. Such characteristics of food products as "quality" and "safety" determine to a large extent the "competitiveness" and "profitability" of the food enterprise. The development strategy of the food processing industry of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2020 proposes to implement modern management methods and integrated management systems of quality indices and safety of food raw materials and food products during the processing, transportation and storage to "solve the problem of increasing competitiveness of Russian food organizations, to create conditions for the import substitution for socially important foods and the export potential"[1].
The implementation and use of various management systems standardized in the documents of universally recognized organizations primarily the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) can certainly contribute to the successful realization of this direction. A significant part of the international standards ISO is universal: the standard requirements are general and applicable to all enterprises and companies, regardless of the industry sector, size and category of products. These include, for example, ISO 9001:2008 "Quality management systems. Requirements", ISO 14001:2004 "Environmental management systems. Requirements and instructions for use", ISO 50001:2011 "Management systems in power consumption. Requirements and instructions for use", and others.
The next group of standards can be characterized as the "industry standard", that is, with a clear field of application, for example: ISO 22000:2005 "Food safety management systems. Instructions for use", ISO 13485:2003 "Medical devices. Quality management system. Requirements for regulatory purposes", and others. The popularity of these ISO standards is shown by the statistics of a large number of certifications in the world, as well as in Russia. Table 1 presents the data on the quantity of certificates of conformity for the management systems at the enterprises of two groups: "agriculture and fishery" and "production of food, drinks and tobacco" according to the report «The ISO Survey - 2013» [2].



