Items Tagged with 'FSSC 22000'

On the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, WPO convened UNIDO, FSSC, and Wageningen University and Research to discuss the Sustainable Packaging Assessment Methodology (SusPAM) and explore how packaging decisions can protect food, help prevent avoidable loss, and support broader sustainability goals.

World Packaging Day on September 6 is an opportunity to move beyond a simple choice between “more” or “less” packaging. The more useful question is whether each packaging decision supports food safety and sustainability, thereby reducing total waste across the value chain.

FSSC 22000 has achieved recognition against Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Benchmarking Requirements.

As part of its Benchmarking process, the Consumer Goods Forum’s Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) has opened a new stakeholder consultation for the FSSC 22000 Version 6 standard.

The latest version of the FSSC 22000 certification scheme—FSSC 22000 Version 6—has gone into effect as of March 31, 2024.

Whether or not a country’s food businesses have largely achieved certification against food safety standards is the second most important predictor of instances of foodborne illness, according to a recent study.

Foundation FSSC has published new guidance documents on Equipment Management and Food Loss and Waste, as well as updated guidance documents in line with the FSSC 22000 Version 6.0 Scheme requirements.

Through a voluntary pilot program, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found four major third-party industry auditing standards for food safety to be in alignment with both the Preventive Controls for Human Foods Rule and the Produce Safety Rule, which are FDA regulations that were issued as part of Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) implementation.

Alvinesa Natural Ingredients recently announced that it has achieved FSSC 22000 certification for food safety management systems (FSMS).

On March 31, 2023, the FSSC Foundation published Version 6 of the FSSC 22000 scheme.