At SurkshaNow, we help food ecosystem organizations accelerate their safety standards and global market access. By aligning your processing workflows, logistics, and management protocols with the internationally recognized ISO 22000:2018 FSMS framework, we ensure your business is low-risk, audit-ready, and fully positioned to win high-stakes enterprise retail and hospitality contracts.
Navigating the global food safety landscape can be demanding. SurkshaNow simplifies your FSMS certification journey's handling everything from initial hazard analysis to HACCP plan development, prerequisite program verification, and independent registrar Stage 1 and Stage 2 certification reviews.
Our compliance specialists possess extensive experience across ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, HACCP, and global food authority codes, ensuring your processing controls meet strict international expectations.
We build your Food Safety Management System (FSMS) package, prepare Hazard Analysis matrices, and create reusable process artifacts to eliminate friction during the external assessment phase.
We work directly alongside accredited Certification Bodies (Registrars) to streamline objective evidence collection, management reviews, and audit simulations, accelerating your time-to-certification.
We go beyond physical clipboards. Our modern approach natively incorporates automated cold-chain IoT data logging and cloud-based ingredient tracking into your audit-ready evidence base.
Whether you operate in primary farming, food processing, packaging manufacturing, or retail logistics, we design a customized remediation roadmap tailored precisely to your operational style.
Post-certification, we manage your internal safety review compliance, supplier verification auditing, and surveillance audit preparation to sustain your compliant status permanently.
Evaluating organizational frameworks to ensure structural integrity and compliance.
The global food supply chain demands absolute visibility. Modern farm-to-fork compliance requires more than traditional biological hazard tracking.
ISO 22000 structures now require organizations to implement robust defenses against intentional contamination and food fraud. SurkshaNow integrates advanced Threat Assessment Critical Control Point (TACCP) and Vulnerability Assessment Critical Control Point (VACCP) matrices directly into your existing system, safeguarding your brand against raw material adulteration and supply chain disruption.
We guide your organization through a transparent, structured process to achieve and maintain your formal ISO 22000 FSMS certification.
We analyze your current facility layouts, hygiene practices, and logistics workflows against ISO 22000 clauses, identifying critical procedural gaps and mapping out a precise organizational remediation strategy.
We author and refine your comprehensive HACCP master plans, flow diagrams, raw material risk vectors, and structural policies using proven, audit-ready templates.
Our team manages coordination across production lines and logistics, helping you establish critical control point thresholds, execute mandatory employee hygiene training, and organize sanitation logs.
We conduct mandatory internal food safety audits, facilitate your formal Management Review meetings, and compile the objective facility verification and chemical control logs required before the registrar audit.
We guide you seamlessly through Stage 1 (Documentation Review) and Stage 2 (On-site Manufacturing Review) audits conducted by your independent, accredited Certification Body.
We help your team manage facility non-conformances, track recall simulation performance indicators (KPIs), and establish continuous monitoring dashboards for hassle-free annual surveillance assessments.
ISO 22000 combines established industry standards with systemic management practices to ensure total food safety throughout the entire processing lifecycle.
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Core Pillar |
Strategic Objective |
FSMS Implementation Profile |
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Interactive Communication |
Ensure downstream transparency and upstream supplier integrity. |
Workflows govern rapid batch tracking, supplier allergen notifications, and direct contact protocols for product recalls. |
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System Management |
Run food safety as an integrated, structured corporate discipline. |
Blends standard operational policies with executive management reviews, metric evaluation, and continuous infrastructure updates. |
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Prerequisite Programs (PRPs) |
Maintain basic sanitary environmental conditions. |
Establishes automated cleaning-in-place (CIP) logs, pest control metrics, employee hygiene standards, and waste containment designs. |
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HACCP Principles |
Scientifically eliminate, prevent, or minimize foodborne hazards. |
Identifies biological, chemical, and physical hazards, defining strict Critical Control Points (CCPs) and automated monitoring bounds. |
Seamlessly add specific sector requirements to your base ISO 22000 standard to meet Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) market mandates.
Integrate your food safety operational workflows with broader corporate quality structures to optimize cross-department productivity.
Evaluate external farming, vendor packaging, and cross-docking logistics footprints using advanced preliminary audits.
An ISO 22000 Gap Assessment is a structured pre-certification review designed to evaluate your current processing facilities, sanitation workflows, and hazard logs against the standards clauses. While not legally mandatory, it significantly enhances your compliance posture by highlighting missing biological or operational controls early—preventing critical audit failures.
While both standards utilize the exact same ISO 22000 framework for core management, FSSC 22000 is explicitly recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). FSSC 22000 combines ISO 22000 with technical specifications for sector-specific Prerequisite Programs (PRPs) and explicit requirements for food defense and food fraud prevention.
PRPs are the baseline environmental and operational conditions required to maintain food safety prior to running hazard controls. They cover fundamental facility items such as water safety, pest control, employee locker sanitation, equipment maintenance, and chemical storage rules.
(UX Update) Under modern processing guidelines, ISO 22000 requires organizations to assess risks beyond accidental contamination. TACCP focuses on preventing deliberate malicious threats (like tampering), while VACCP evaluates your supply chain vulnerability to economic fraud (such as counterfeit ingredients). SurkshaNow integrates these risk profiles directly into your core safety metrics.
A comprehensive certification-ready package consists of your main Food Safety Manual, documented HACCP plans with validated limits, complete PRP verification files, internal audit logs, past Management Review minutes, and your emergency response/recall simulation data.
A CCP is a specific manufacturing step where control can be applied to completely prevent or eliminate a significant hazard (e.g., specific pasteurization temperature settings). An oPRP is a control measure used to reduce the likelihood of introducing a hazard or contamination into the processing environment (e.g., rigid sanitization of conveyor belts).
The Food Safety Management System belongs entirely to your business and must be practiced daily by your plant engineers and processing staff. However, because building detailed hazard analyses and legal compliance logs can be taxing, companies leverage specialists like SurkshaNow to architect, organize, and write the documentation to clear external evaluations seamlessly.
The external audit involves deep structural, administrative, and physical evaluation. Registrars perform comprehensive document and HACCP logic analysis during Stage 1. During Stage 2, they execute physical processing plant walkthroughs, test real-time digital temperature logs, check batch traceability chains, and interview operators on the floor.
(UX Update) Yes, absolutely. Modern registrar teams prefer machine-readable, automated electronic logs (such as IoT cold-storage alerts and digital signature workflows) over manual clipboards. Digital logs reduce human logging errors, prove continuous compliance, and significantly speed up evidence retrieval during the Stage 2 evaluation.
Yes. ISO 22000 strictly mandates that organizations execute separate, independent internal audits at planned intervals, regardless of the size of your day-to-day quality team. Internal audits provide a qualitative, systematic review of your frameworks overall operational health to ensure practices have not degraded before external registrar visits.