What is the meaning of FSSC 22000?

What is the meaning of FSSC 22000?

Food Safety System Certification
The Food Safety System Certification 22000 (FSSC 22000) offers a complete certification Scheme for the auditing and certification of Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS). It also offers certification for combined FSMS and Quality Management Systems (FSSC 22000-Quality).

What is the difference between ISO 22000 and FSSC 22000?

The main difference between ISO 22000 and FSSC 22000 is that ISO 22000 is not GFSI recognised and FSSC 22000 is GFSI recognised.

What is FSSC 22000 and describe how it relates to GFSI?

FSSC 22000 combines the benefits of a business management tool linking food safety and business processes with the ability to meet growing global customer requirements for a GFSI recognised supplier food safety system certification.

What is FSSC standard?

Food Safety System Certification 22000 (FSSC 22000) is a robust, ISO-based, internationally accepted certification scheme for auditing and certification of food safety within the food and beverage manufacturing sector.

What are the 3 components of FSSC 22000?

FSSC 22000 has three components:

• Food manufacturing (ISO 22002-1)
• Catering (ISO 22002-2)
• Farming of animals (ISO 22002-3)
• Food packaging manufacturing (ISO 22002-4)
• Food and feed for animals (ISO 22002-6)
• Retail and supermarkets (PAS 221)
• Logistics (NTA 8059 – being developed as ISO 22002-5).

Who developed FSSC 22000?

What is ISO 22000? The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) developed a Food Safety Management System following a similar format as the well known quality standard ISO 9001. The Food Safety Management System standard is ISO 22000.

Can we say that FSSC 22000 is much better than ISO 22000?

FSSC 22000 is nothing more than: ISO 22000. ISO 22003 – a technical specification that details which and how the pre-requisite programs should be implemented.

What is a GFSI certificate?

Retailers and other buyers around the world trust GFSI-recognised certification as a mark of the highest standards in food safety, allowing food businesses that hold these certificates to access all corners of the global market.

Is FSSC 22000 GFSI recognized?

FSSC 22000 has achieved full GFSI recognition since 2010 and considers this recognition of great importance to the increasing number of brand owners using the Scheme.”

What are the FSSC 22000 additional requirements?

FSSC 22000 additional requirements are related to the topics management of services, product labelling, food defense and food fraud mitigation. 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.

What are the additional requirements of FSSC 22000?

What is the latest version of FSSC 22000?

Version 5.1
In November 2020, FSSC 22000 has published Version 5.1 of its Scheme, which is the newest version of the FSSC 22000 Scheme. Version 5.1 will be applicable from 1 April 2021.