Food Safety

Halal Certification and ISO 22000 — How GCC Food Businesses Can Satisfy Both

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Halal certification ISO 22000 guide for GCC food businesses

Halal certification ISO 22000 alignment is one of the most operationally important — and most poorly understood — compliance challenges facing GCC food businesses today. Most food manufacturers, processors, and exporters in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and across the GCC need both certifications simultaneously. Halal certification confirms religious and cultural compliance. ISO 22000 confirms systematic … Read more

ISO 22000 DIS 2026 — What Every Food Safety Professional Must Do Now

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ISO 22000 DIS 2026 gap analysis guide for food safety professionals

ISO 22000 DIS 2026 — Where Things Stand Right Now The ISO 22000 DIS 2026 has formally entered its ballot phase — and if you haven’t started your PRP gap analysis against the new ISO 22002-x:2025 series, you’re already behind. This is not a distant compliance exercise. The groundwork you lay today determines how smoothly … Read more

ISO 22000:2018 vs ISO 22000:2026 — The Complete Comparison Every Food Safety Manager Needs

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ISO 22000 2018 vs 2026 complete comparison guide for food safety managers

The ISO 22000 2018 vs 2026 comparison is the most important question in food safety management right now — and most organisations still do not know the answer. ISO 22000:2026 is currently at Draft International Standard (DIS) stage. The revision is progressing through ISO’s formal process, with publication expected in 2026 or early 2027. When … Read more

Supplier Management: 4 Critical Areas ISO and GFSI Auditors Check

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supplier management ISO GFSI audit requirements

Supplier management is consistently one of the highest-scoring areas for non-conformances in ISO and GFSI audits globally. It is also one of the most commonly misunderstood — because organisations often treat supplier management as a one-time approval exercise rather than an ongoing, systematic control. Whether you are certified to ISO 9001, ISO 22000, BRCGS Food … Read more

HACCP Plan — How to Write a Powerful One That Passes Every Food Safety Audit

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HACCP plan 7 principles food safety audit guide ISO 22000

A HACCP plan is the backbone of every food safety management system. Whether your organisation is certified to ISO 22000, FSSC 22000 Version 7, BRCGS Food Safety, or SQF Edition 10 — a properly written HACCP plan is the document auditors check most carefully, and the one that most food businesses get wrong. A HACCP … Read more

Corrective Action (CAPA) — How to Write One That Satisfies Auditors

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corrective action CAPA guide for ISO auditors

A corrective action CAPA process is one of the most scrutinised elements in any ISO or GFSI audit. Auditors do not just check whether you have a CAPA form — they check whether your corrective actions are genuine, whether your root cause analysis goes deep enough, and whether you have verified that the problem has … Read more

ISO 22000 Is Being Revised — DIS Stage 2026: What Every Food Safety Professional Must Know

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ISO 22000 Is Being Revised — DIS Stage 2026: What Every Food Safety Professional Must Know ISO 22000 is the backbone of food safety management for organisations across the global food chain. From primary producers to food manufacturers, caterers, packaging companies, retailers, and logistics providers — ISO 22000 provides the internationally recognised framework for identifying, … Read more

Your Internal Audit Is Supposed to Protect You — So Why Are You Still Failing External Audits?

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⚠️ Your internal audit programme is supposed to PROTECT you from external audit findings. But for many organisations — it is actually making things WORSE. Here are the 6 most common internal audit failures seen across ISO, BRCGS, FSSC and HSE systems 👇 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━❌ FAILURE 1 — Auditing for Compliance, Not Risk━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Most internal auditors go … Read more

FSSC 22000 Version 7 — 7 Critical Changes Every Certified Site Must Know

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🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: FSSC 22000 Version 7 is officially here! If your organisation is certified to FSSC 22000 — the clock is now ticking! ⏰ Here is everything you need to know 👇 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔑 What Has Changed in FSSC 22000 Version 7?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ New PRP StandardsThe old ISO/TS 22002-x series is OUT. The new ISO … Read more

7 Critical HACCP Failures That Cost Companies Their Certification

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🚨 These 7 HACCP mistakes are costing companies their audit grades — and even their certifications! After thousands of food safety audits across BRCGS, FSSC 22000, ISO 22000 and SQF, these are the most common HACCP non-conformances that auditors find again and again. Is your site making any of these? 👇 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━❌ FAILURE 1 — … Read more