Food Safety Management Systems audit context
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Control food-safety hazards across the value chain.

ISO 22000:2018 — Food Safety Management Systems. Food safety fails at the interfaces — with suppliers, with transport, with cleaning contractors. ISO 22000 tests whether the hazard analysis and prerequisite programmes actually cover those interfaces.

Standards applied
ISO 22000:2018
Accreditation status for this programme

Certification programme — accreditation is not claimed on this page.

Each standard page states its accreditation status exactly as it appears in the current official documents of Global Energy Up. The phrase “accredited certification” and any accreditation symbol are used only where the standard and the activity fall inside the published official scope.

Field status: a current accreditation document for this programme has not yet been received in a publishable form. The programme is therefore presented here without an accreditation claim — and the absence of evidence is not a conclusion in either direction.

Who typically applies

Three specific situations.

  • A processor supplying retailers with their own food-safety requirements.
  • An exporter meeting importing-country requirements.
  • A catering or logistics operation inside someone else's food chain.
Food Safety Management Systems audit context
What auditors examine

What has to be evidenced.

  • Hazard analysis and its inputs
  • Prerequisite programmes and their verification
  • Operational PRPs and critical control points
  • Traceability and recall capability, tested rather than described
  • Emergency preparedness and response
  • Validation, verification and improvement
  • Communication along the food chain
Certification cycle

Not a one-time inspection.

  1. Application and review

    System scope, sites, activities, effective personnel count and outsourced processes.

    Global Energy Up
  2. Stage 1

    System readiness: documentation, internal audit, management review and site arrangements.

    Audit
  3. Stage 2

    Implementation and effectiveness in practice, against evidence.

    Audit
  4. Correction and corrective action

    Nonconformities addressed and their effectiveness examined.

    Client
  5. Independent technical review

    Performed by someone who took no part in the audit.

    Independent reviewer
  6. Certification decision

    Taken by authorised personnel who did not participate in the audit.

    Authorised decision
  7. Surveillance

    Periodic audits confirming continued conformity during the cycle.

    Annual
  8. Recertification

    Full review of continued effectiveness before renewal after three years.

    Every 3 years
What the certificate does not mean

The limit, plainly.

Certification does not mean your product conforms and does not mean your performance is excellent. It means your management system met the requirements of the standard at the assessment date, within the scope and sites shown on the certificate.

Management-system certification services are delivered by Global Energy Up. Energy Up International does not issue management-system certificates.

Describe the claim — not the service.

Tell us what must be relied on, who will rely on it and by what date. We will confirm the correct programme, evidence requirement and responsible entity — or tell you it is outside our scope.