Food Safety System Certification 22000

The standard consists of three components: ISO 22000, PRPs and the additional FSSC 22000 requirements. The international standard ISO 22000 forms the basis for FSSC 22000 and outlines the requirements for management, for internal and external communication and points out the continuous improvement approach. This is the reason why the revision of ISO 22000 has such a big impact on FSSC 22000. The sector specific PRPs (Pre-Requisite-Program) makes sure that FSSC 22000 is applicable for (nearly) all companies in the supply chain. The additional FSSC 22000 requirements ensure consistency and integrity and regularize the administration and management of FSSC 22000.

Moreover, there is an optional quality management module, which includes all the integrable elements of ISO 9001 into the FSSC 22000 certification. This way it is possible to combine a Food Safety Management Certification with a Quality Management Certification.

FSSC 22000 is applicable for the following branches: food manufacturing, food packaging manufacturing, animal feed production, farming and newly also transport and storage, catering and retail and wholesale. GFSI benchmark is valid for food manufacturing (C), animal feed production (D), transport and storage (G), food packaging manufacturing (I) and bio chemicals (K).

• ISO-based supply chain approach
• GFSI accepted
• Use of existing, independent, inter­national standards
• ISO 22000, ISO 22003 and technical specifications for sector PRPs
• ISO/IEC 17021 accreditation (system & process approach)
• Wide scope: food manufacturing (slaughtering and pet food included)
• Stakeholder approval & commit­ ment (industry, retailers, ngo-s)
• In depth and rigorous food safety audits
• Independent scheme management
• Transparency

In the new version 5 there is an optional quality management module, which includes all the integrable elements of ISO 9001 into the FSSC 22000 certification. This way it is possible to combine a Food Safety Management Certification with a Quality Management Certification.
FSSC 22000 is applicable for the following branches: food manufacturing, food packaging manufacturing, animal feed production, farming as well as transport and storage, catering and retail and wholesale. GFSI benchmark is valid for food manufacturing (C), animal feed production (D), transport and storage (G), food packaging manufacturing (I) and bio chemicals (K). Read more

On June 3, FSSC 22000 published Version 5 of its certification scheme. One big reason for the revision is the publication of the standard ISO 22000: 2018 last summer, which is used as a basis for the GFSI benchmarked certification scheme. The new version includes mainly structural changes.

Audits against the FSSC 22000 Scheme requirements V4.1 are only allowed until December 31st of 2019. Upgrade audits against FSSC 22000 Scheme requirements V5 shall be conducted between 1st January 2020 and 31st December 2020. Under extraordinary circumstances, the V5 upgrade audit can be postponed to 2021, but this process shall be completed in accordance with the FSSC scheme requirements and before June 29. After that date, V4.1 certificates will expire and the organization will need to start over with the certification process as per ISO 17021 to re-gain certification.