Survey on certification under ISO 22000 and ISO/TS 22003
Responses: 23 (13 ABs and 10 CBs)
Section 1: AB and CB members who operate ISO 22000 accreditation or certification
service
Q1: Have you provided or observed ISO 22000 certification to organizations manufacturing
drugs for human use?
Yes: 2
No: 18
Was the certificate issued under
Why don’t you or your accredited CBs
accreditation against ISO/TS 22003?
provide ISO 22000 certification to drug for
Yes: 1
human use?
No: 1
What kind of drugs are covered under the
organization’s ISO 22000 certification
a) Drugs for human use are outside
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of the scope of ISO 22000.
scope?
b) No client who wishes to be
Accredited: Herbal drugs (NABCB / L)
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certified.
Not accredited: Herbal extracts, Mineral
c) others
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fortifiers **
**: from the examples provided from responders, excluded the examples which are
definitely included in “Example of sectors” in Table A.1 of Annex A of ISO/TS 22003.
Q2: Have you provided or observed ISO 22000 certification to organizations manufacturing
non-food products (e.g. personal products such as shampoos)? Please select a) or b)
below.
Yes: 6 ***
No: 14
*** Yes:
Why did you or your accredited CBs provide the certification to non-food products?
a) it is covered under Table A.1 of Annex A of ISO/TS 22003
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b) request from clients
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c) others
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Was the certificate to non-food products issued under accreditation against ISO/TS
22003?
Yes: 5
No: -1/4
List of non-food products which are covered under the organization’s ISO 22000
certification scope.
AB
Examples of non-food products
Category and sector
JAB
rental and cleaning of uniforms
I
JAB
Food safety training
I
JAB
inspection and tutoring of kitchen hygiene
I
JAB
fuel tablets for cooking
L
NOTE: from the examples provided from responders, excluded the examples which are
definitely included in “Example of sectors” in Table A.1 of Annex A of ISO/TS 22003.
Some responders showed packaging materials as non-food products.
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Section 2: AB members who operate FSMS accreditation service under ISO 22000
and ISO/TS 22003
Q1: Have you observed ISO 22000 certification to organizations outside of the stated scope
of ISO 22000?
Yes: 2****
No: 11
**** Yes:
What products or activities were covered under the organization’s ISO 22000
certification scope?
(These two responders misunderstood the questions. Their examples are included
the scope of 22000.)
Was the certificate issued under accreditation (yourself or others) against ISO/TS
22003?
Yes:
1
No: 1
Q2: Does your organisation have a policy regarding the granting of accredited certification
to organisations outside of the stated scope of ISO 22000?
Yes: 3
No: 10
Please specify your policy and its
Please specify the reasons of No.
justification.
NOTE: This question might have been misunderstood. Both Yes and No were shown,
though each AB had similar policies.
Comments from ABs;
Not allow accreditation and certification outside the scope of ISO/TS 22003
9 ABs
and ISO 22000.
Follows the ISO/TS 22003 categories A to M as well as the local business
1 AB
standard categories. (categories and sub-categories)
Certification bodies can issue unaccredited certificates without accreditation
mark within the scopes permitted by AB.
However Certification bodies
which intend to issue unaccredited certifications shall define and establish
procedures to perform such works and shall submit the relevant procedures
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1 AB
to AB for approval prior to commence unaccredited certification activities.
To be discussed if the CB apply for the scope outside the stated scope in ISO 1AB
22000.
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