ISO 22000 — Food Safety
Management

Certification of food safety management systems against ISO 22000:2018 — for every organisation in the food chain, from production to packaging to service.

What it is

What is ISO 22000?

It is the food safety standard that turns HACCP principles into a full management system.

Hazard analysis, critical control points, traceability and hygiene practice are checked at every step of the food chain: on the production floor, in storage and in transport. Retail chains, distributors and export markets usually want exactly this evidence before they give you shelf space.

Who it's for

Built for teams
like yours.

  • Food and beverage producers and processors
  • Storage, logistics, and packaging operators in the food chain
  • Restaurants, catering, and food service companies
  • Exporters meeting foreign retail and regulatory demands

If one of these is you, it is worth a conversation.

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Deliverables

What's included.

The handover pack

06 items
  • An accredited ISO 22000:2018 certificate, valid three years
  • A certificate entry anyone can confirm online on the public verification page
  • The Stage 1 readiness result: the gaps listed for you before the main audit
  • The two-stage certification audit report and its nonconformity records
  • A certification decision signed off by an independent decision-maker
  • An annual surveillance programme, and recertification at the end of the cycle
Why us

3 reasons to choose us.

A food safety audit does not finish in the office: it runs on the production floor, in the warehouse and in transport.

  • Traceability is tested against a real batch.

    Not the chain as written in the file — we follow one selected batch from raw material through to dispatch. That is exactly the form the question takes in a retail chain’s own supplier audit.

  • We certify ISO 22000 on top of HACCP, and we do not conflate the two.

    HACCP is a method; ISO 22000 is the management system standard built over it. FSSC 22000 is a separate scheme and we do not issue it — we say so at the first meeting, not on the day of the audit.

  • Your buyer in the export market can verify the certificate themselves.

    Our accreditation is under AZS ISO/IEC 17021-1:2021, attestation AZ 03.0031.01.26. Whoever decides on shelf access confirms the certificate online instead of asking us for a letter.

Questions

Asked &
answered.

Three years, subject to annual surveillance audits that confirm the system is still operating. In year three a recertification audit renews the cycle.

Yes — General Group Co. is accredited by the Azerbaijan Accreditation Centre under AZS ISO/IEC 17021-1:2021 (attestation AZ 03.0031.01.26), so the certificates we issue are independently recognised, not self-declared.

Anyone can. Every certificate we issue can be checked online through our public verification page at any time — no account, no request, no waiting.

No — impartiality rules prohibit a certification body from certifying a system it built. We can certify a system prepared in-house or with an independent consultant; our procedures explain exactly what the audit will examine.

HACCP is the method of hazard analysis and critical control points; ISO 22000 is the full management system standard built on top of it. What we certify is ISO 22000.

No. ISO 22000 is a voluntary management system certificate; the AFSA permit is a legal condition of operating. They run in parallel and neither replaces the other.

No. FSSC 22000 is a separate, GFSI-recognised scheme that adds requirements on top of ISO 22000. We certify against ISO 22000.

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