Strategic Cooperation FSSC 22000 and SYNERGY 22000
02/02/2012
Learn about how the agreement benefits food safety for the global supply chain.
On 30 January 2012 the management of FSSC and of Synergy have reached agreement on a joint future strategy regarding the use of ISO 22000 for developing GFSI recognised schemes, as a basis for certification of Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS) in food supply chains worldwide.
Both FSSC 22000 and Synergy 22000 schemes were initially developed in parallel with the same goal: provide a worldwide ISO 22000 based and GFSI recognised FSMS scheme as an alternative to private standards on the FSMS certification market.
The cooperation will solve the user-unfriendly and confusing situation having two equivalent schemes with useless competition, and generate synergies involving all available forces and competences behind the common objective, within FSSC structures and representations.
FSSC 22000 will remain the international certification scheme to be accepted by the Global Food Safety Initiative, Synergy 22000 will not apply anymore for such acceptance.
Synergy will remain supporting manufacturers who have been Synergy 22000 certified and will work together with FSSC for those of them who want to have their certificate transformed into a FSSC 22000 certificate.
The management of Synergy will start working together with the management of FSSC to the benefit of supply chains worldwide that seek food safety certification based on ISO 22000 and will support the rapid growth of FSSC 22000 and the further extension of its scopes with their wide experience and networks in food safety certification.
To this day FSSC has 60 contracted certification bodies and almost 1000 FSSC 22000 certificates have been granted since the initial acceptance by the GFSI in 2010.
Gorinchem, the Netherlands
Fons Schmid
Chairman Board of Stakeholders FSSC 22000
Foundation for Food Safety Certification
info@fssc22000.com
www.fssc22000.com
Geneva, Switzerland
Prof. Guy Turchany
President & Chair of Standardisation Committee
Synergy Global Standardisation SA
info@synergy-gss.com
www.synergy-gss.com
For further information or questions contact us via info@fssc22000.com