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FSSC 22000 is a food safety scheme approved by GFSI, which includes ISO 22000:2018 along with another prerequisite program standard and other requirements of FSSC. FSSC 22000 certificate can be issued only after an FSSC 22000 Audit conducted by a certified certification body, and it remains valid for three years via annual surveillance visits. It is common practice in India for manufacturers and exporters catering to international retail markets to be required to have this certificate before they confirm their purchase order. A mandatory first step is the gap assessment of the facility based on this scheme to be ready to address any shortcomings before the auditor arrives. Legal4sure helps with the entire process from registration to renewal with FSSC 22000 Audit service and consultancy.
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This is the actual process, from scoping to renewal, and the Legal4sure FSSC 22000 Audit Consultancy team walks you through each stage. The outcome is a site that meets every requirement, has closed its compliance gaps early and arrives at the certification body audit-ready.
This determines which sector prerequisite standard should be used for the audit.
Scope includes the product(s), line(s), and sites and is listed on your certificate.
A systematic assessment against all scheme requirements reveals precisely what you are lacking.
All policies, HACCP plans, procedures, and records must exist before an auditor reviews them.
As audits include checking implementation as well as documentation, things need to be done the way they were written.
Competence of food safety team leader and HACCP team members should be demonstrated.
Both are mandatory inputs and both will be reviewed by the auditor.
An audit simulation identifies the weak spots without the threat of an official finding.
The certification body should be licensed by the FSSC Foundation in order to issue a valid certificate.
Stage 1 focuses on assessing readiness and Stage 2 on implementation, not exceeding six months apart from each other.
The corrective action should be approved before making any certification decision.
Surveillance on an annual basis and renewing the certificate before three years expiry.
Legal4sure has been helping food producers, food packers and exporters with the implementation of FSSC 22000 system from initial gap assessment to renewal. Our consultants know exactly what will be expected at the audit and where there could be problems with documentation. The audit to get certification is not carried out by us since the independent nature of auditing requires such work to be performed by an accredited entity; we help you to get ready for it.
Your facility is evaluated against all scheme requirements, and we develop an action list. FSSC 22000 Gap Analysis forms the basis of your project plan.
The HACCP plan and prerequisites, together with defense and fraud assessments are documented according to your plant’s reality.
FSSC 22000 Pre-assessment Audit is conducted in accordance with the process used by the certification body and concludes with a formal audit report. Any non-conformities are resolved before the actual audit.
Certification does not finish with the issuance of the certificate. We prepare your organization for every FSSC 22000 Surveillance Audit, including the surprise one, through record keeping in-between audits.
Global retailers and international food manufacturing companies demand GFSI certified accreditation before accepting a supplier. Without this accreditation, the process of vendor enrollment with these buyers might become out of reach for you. It is more of a business mandate and not a legal one, however it helps in achieving compliance with FSSAI and the importing country through documentation of controls. This documentation is made audit-ready through our FSSC 22000 Audit Service.
The certification process is conducted by an independent and accredited organization rather than through self-certification and certified facilities are registered in the FSSC public register, available for purchase by companies. Surveillance visits annually and an audit without prior notice prove that standards are maintained during the period of time between visits.
A specific programme must be in place for food fraud, food defense, allergens, environment, and food safety culture. Facilities that implement the programme correctly will have fewer instances of product recall, rejected consignments, and delisting. A regular cycle of audits helps identify deviations while it is easy to fix them. Continuous FSSC 22000 Audit Consultancy keeps the process up-to-date as products and suppliers change and new schemes come up.
The policy describes the management commitment and objectives, whereas the scope identifies the products, processes, and locations to which the certificate will be applied. Both documents help the certification body determine the audit period.
These include flowcharts, identification of hazards, controls, critical limits and record keeping. This gives the auditor assurance that all important hazards are under control.
This includes cleaning, pest control, maintenance, and personal hygiene records under the relevant ISO 22002 section. Auditors take samples from them in order to check whether the hygiene standards are being maintained.
The plan calls for conducting threat and vulnerability assessments with corresponding mitigations, which are to be performed following any modification in the supplier or recipe.
The matrices for allergens, cleaning validation studies, and mock recalls confirm that you can identify and withdraw the product promptly.
They include the audit program, reports, corrective action and minutes of the review. The auditors assume that the two should already be completed at stage 2 since the system conducts self-reviews.
This includes cleaning, pest control, maintenance, and personal hygiene records under the relevant ISO 22002 section. Auditors take samples from them in order to check whether the hygiene standards are being maintained.
Bridging technical complexity and operational excellence across highly regulated global markets.
We support food and beverage manufacturers in establishing FSSC 22000 systems covering food safety controls, hygiene practices, hazard management, traceability, supplier controls, and production processes.
Our FSSC 22000 support for dairy businesses covers milk handling, processing, storage, sanitation, temperature control, contamination prevention, traceability, and other food safety requirements across dairy operations.
We help meat and seafood businesses implement food safety controls for raw material handling, processing, cold-chain management, hygiene, cross-contamination prevention, traceability, and storage.
We assist bakeries and confectionery manufacturers with FSSC 22000 requirements related to ingredient control, allergen management, sanitation, production hygiene, process controls, traceability, and finished-product safety.
Our FSSC 22000 services help snack manufacturers control raw materials, allergens, processing conditions, hygiene, foreign-body risks, packaging, storage, and traceability throughout production.
We support fruit and vegetable processors with food safety systems covering raw material sourcing, washing, processing, contamination control, hygiene, temperature management, packaging, storage, and traceability.
Our consultants help grain and pulse processors establish controls for raw material inspection, cleaning, milling, processing, storage, pest management, contamination risks, traceability, and food safety monitoring.
We support spice, sauce, seasoning, and condiment manufacturers with controls for ingredient quality, microbial hazards, allergen management, foreign-body prevention, sanitation, processing, packaging, and traceability.
We support animal feed manufacturers with FSSC 22000 requirements covering ingredient sourcing, hazard control, contamination prevention, production hygiene, traceability, storage, and supplier management.
We help businesses involved in food storage and transportation establish controls for temperature management, hygiene, contamination prevention, product handling, traceability, vehicle or facility sanitation, and supply-chain food safety.
Before working with us, most factories ask the same things. These FAQs cover what Legal4sure does and how we support you.
The organization should implement ISO 22000:2018, ISO 22002 prerequisite standard for the relevant category and the additional FSSC requirements. Version 7 was published on 1 May 2026 and will have a 12-month implementation period after which certified organizations will migrate during their next audit cycle.
This checklist should include ISO 22000 clauses, prerequisites programs, food defense, food fraud, allergens, environmental monitoring, and food safety culture. Additionally, it should verify traceability through a simulated recall and completion of internal audit and management review.
It is a comparison of your current system against every scheme requirement, ending in a prioritised action list. The scheme does not mandate it, but it is the most efficient first step because it prevents surprises at Stage 1.
Gap analysis involves comparing your system against all the scheme requirements to produce a prioritized action list. This is not a mandatory part of the scheme but is the most efficient initial step due to no surprises at the Stage 1 audit.
The surveillance audits are done every year and the first audit should be completed within 12 months after the certification decision is made. These audits are system audits and at least one during the three-year period is an unannounced audit.
Establishments having well-developed food safety management systems need six to twelve months for the certification process while those without such systems require more time. Stage 2 of the audit process should be done six months after Stage 1 and the time of the audit is defined by the certification body depending on personnel and HACCP category.
Not necessarily, however, most new sites usually lose several weeks because of scope mistakes, insufficient record keeping and repetitive issues. A consultant makes preparation faster and allows your team to concentrate on production.
This audit is a verification part of the entire FSSC 22000 Certification process that includes category determination, scoping, documentation and certification body selection. The passing of this audit results in the issue of a three-year certificate.
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