The International Organization for Standardization (ISO). First edition. 2007-02-15. 24p. This Technical Specification
- defines the rules applicable for the audit and certification of a food safety management system (FSMS)
complying with the requirements given in ISO 22000 (or other sets of specified FSMS requirements), and
- provides the necessary information and confidence to customers about the way certification of their
suppliers has been granted.
Certification of FSMSs (named certification in this Technical Specification) is a third-party conformity assessment activity (see ISO/IEC 17000:2004, 5.5). Bodies performing this activity are therefore third- party conformity assessment bodies (named certification body/bodies in this Technical Specification).