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FSSC Development Program V2.0 · Food and Feed Manufacturing (BIII, C, D and K)The written system for the FSSC Development Program, for factories, feed mills and packhouses.
If a customer wants proof of a food safety system and full FSSC 22000 is out of reach, the FSSC Development Program is the route for that gap. This toolkit closes all 182 auditable sub-clauses of the Assessment Requirements for Food and Feed Manufacturing V2.0, published May 2025, and it ships with the sector Self-Assessment Checklist, all 182 clause rows populated.
R4,500, no VAT · about USD 276 · EUR 240 · GBP 205 · AED 1 012
Lifetime access and a lifetime licence, editable Word and Excel, one hour of consultation with one of our consultants.
Counted from the delivered register, against the Assessment Requirements for Food and Feed Manufacturing V2.0, published May 2025.
A conformity statement, not a certificate.
The FSSC Development Program is a voluntary assessment model run by Foundation FSSC for organisations in the food supply chain, with Version 2.0 published in May 2025. Assessments are performed unaccredited by a licensed conformity assessment body, and a successful one produces a conformity statement and an entry in the public FSSC Register of conforming organizations, which your customer can look up.
It is not FSSC 22000. Version 2.0 runs as one set of sector requirements with no tiers, normative and set per food chain category in the Assessment Requirements document for that sector, linked to the ISO 22003-1:2022 Annex A categories. Assessments against Version 1.1 ended on 31 May 2026, so V2.0 is the only version in play.
Categories BIII, C, D and K are the Programme’s manufacturing and feed set, so this is the toolkit for the factory, the feed mill, the pet food producer, the packhouse and the ingredient maker.
Five steps, and the fourth is the one people skip.
Nothing in this sequence can be skipped, and the fourth step is the one every rushed site tries to skip. No assessor accepts a system that started yesterday.
Three parts, so a clause number leads straight to a folder.
205 controlled documents, FSDM001 to FSDM205. That is 168 Word documents and 37 Excel workbooks, made up of 69 procedures and policies, 98 control forms and records, 5 risk assessment workbooks in our four sheet house format, 32 supporting workbooks, plus the master index.
Food Safety System
Clauses 1.1 to 1.12. The management half the Programme asks for before it looks at your floor.
- Leadership, policy and scope
- Document and record control
- Competence, training and communication
- Supplier and outsourced process control
- Nonconformity, correction and improvement
Prerequisite Programmes
Clauses 2.1 onward. The conditions that have to hold before HACCP means anything.
- Buildings, utilities and hygienic design
- Cleaning, pest control and waste
- Personal hygiene and protective clothing
- Allergen, rework and chemical control
- Food defence, food fraud and traceability
HACCP Control
Clauses 3.1 to 3.4. Worked honestly to 4 CCPs and 7 OPRPs.
- HACCP team, product and process description
- Hazard analysis and significance
- CCP and OPRP determination
- Validation, monitoring and verification
Index and clause mapping
A mapping document at the root of each part lists every sub-clause against the documents that close it and the evidence the assessor will ask for.
- Clause mapped master index
- Mapping document per part
- Full Self-Assessment Checklist, all 182 clause rows populated
Restaurants, hotels, canteens, cafeterias, coffee shops, food trucks and event catering sit in category E, which has its own Assessment Requirements and its own toolkit at R4,000.
Written so a site with no system can actually run it.
Most packs on the market are a dump. You open a procedure on nonconforming product and nobody knows what the clause behind it wants, which is where implementation dies. Here each procedure opens with a plain terms box in ordinary language, then the procedure itself, written for a real site with real constraints, then a closing section naming the evidence the assessor will ask to see. Hand a clause group to a supervisor who has never read a standard and you still get usable output.
Procedures and policies
69 documentsOne per requirement, each opening in plain termsWritten for a real siteConstraints, shifts and people, not an ideal plantEvidence named at the endWhat the assessor will ask you to produceControl forms and records
98 formsThe half of the system you run on day to dayShift level checksMinutes, not meetingsRetention stated on eachSo nothing is thrown out earlyRisk assessments
5 workbooksOur four sheet house format, scored and bandedDrop-downs, not typed scoresThe matrix does the ratingAction tracker built inEvery Medium and above gets an owner and a dateWorkbooks and checklists
32 supporting workbooksSchedules, registers and logs in ExcelEight sheet HACCP workbookHow to Use, Study, Significance Matrix, Risk Register, CCP and OPRP Summary, Decision Tree, Matrixes, Action TrackerSelf-Assessment ChecklistAll 182 clause rows, the one the CAB works fromWhat the assessor asks to see on the day.
Every procedure in the toolkit closes with a section naming its evidence, so the question is never a surprise. These four are where assessments are won and lost.
Trace a clause to a document and back
When the assessor reads out a number, your QC opens one folder. The mapping document at each part root makes that a ten second answer instead of a hunt.
A matrix an assessor can follow
Rating Salmonella on a dry ingredient line, Listeria monocytogenes in chilled ready to eat and Bacillus cereus where cooked starch sits warm is the sort of reasoning that survives a challenge.
Filled in on the spot, not on Friday
Four CCPs and seven OPRPs are worked honestly. Twelve control points look impressive in a proposal and collapse when the assessor asks for the monitoring records.
The same checklist the CAB uses
All 182 clause rows populated. Work it before the assessment and you find your own gaps first, which is the whole point of a gap audit.
Bought by sites with a date on the calendar.
Categories BIII, C, D and K cover pre-process handling of plant products that keeps the product in its whole form, such as a fruit and vegetable packhouse that washes, sorts, grades or packs (BIII), the processing and packaging of food from the primary conversion of animal carcasses through perishable animal, plant and mixed products to ambient stable products (C), the processing of feed material and feed mixtures for animals not kept in households (D), and the production of food and feed processing aids, additives, gases, minerals, bio-cultures and enzymes (K).
A retailer has given you a date to have a system in place, and nobody on site has written one before.
An overseas customer wants a third party position on file, and a self-declaration is not going to answer it.
You came out of a customer audit with findings and you need a system, not another folder of forms.
A new plant, or a group site that cannot carry a full FSSC 22000 audit yet, setting habits before bad ones set in.
It is the wrong buy if you already hold FSSC 22000, where the Version 7 toolkits on this shop are your set. An off-site catering kitchen or an industrial kitchen making food that is not for immediate consumption belongs here rather than in category E, because the Programme places it in category C.
What your site still has to do.
A toolkit is the written half of a food safety system, the half that takes months from nothing. The rest is yours, and no document pack on the market can do it for you.
- Put your own details, products, processes and site layout in, and approve them.
- Run the HACCP study against your own process flow. The workbook is built to be worked.
- Train your people on what they now have to do, and keep the records.
- Build up real records. No assessor accepts a system that started yesterday.
- Appoint a licensed conformity assessment body and book the assessment.
ASC does gap audits and implementation work, and we audit sites we have supplied documents to. Spend your consultation hour on the category you sit in and which control points are genuinely critical.
Everything below, for R4,500
- All 205 documents, FSDM001 to FSDM205, editable Word and Excel.
- The full Self-Assessment Checklist for the sector, all 182 clause rows populated.
- The clause mapped master index and a mapping document at each part root.
- The eight sheet HACCP workbook, worked to 4 CCPs and 7 OPRPs.
- Five risk assessment workbooks in the four sheet house format, 32 supporting workbooks.
- One hour of consultation with one of our consultants.
- Lifetime access and a lifetime licence.
- No VAT.
The Development Program is a staging post.
This toolkit uses the same three part spine, clause mapped index and risk assessment format as ASC’s FSSC 22000 Version 7 toolkits, so the step up extends what your people already know rather than replacing it. ASC Food Safety Training at ascfoodsafetytraining.com runs the course for each step.
Implementation of FSSC 22000 Version 7 for Food Manufacturing
The implementation course, with an assessed food manufacturing elective, bundled with the matching sector toolkit.
Food Safety Inspections and Audit Readiness for QCs and HACCP Teams
The right first course for a site with no system, because it teaches your people what an assessor actually does.
Internal and Supplier Auditing Practices
For your QC and HACCP team, since the system still has to be checked by someone.
Hygienic Design Essentials
Pays for itself before you spend money on plant changes.
When the paperwork starts to hurt, ASCloud takes these checklists off paper so records, verifications and task alerts run from a phone on the floor. The ASCloud group on the ASC shop sets out what it covers, and if you already have a login it is at portal.ascfoodsafety.com.
Questions we get asked before people buy.
Does this give us FSSC 22000?
No. It is a separate voluntary assessment model giving you a conformity statement and a listing in the FSSC Register of conforming organizations, not FSSC 22000 status.
Will our customer accept it?
It depends what they asked for. A documented system with a third party position is answered by the conformity statement and the register entry. A specification naming FSSC 22000 is not.
We were assessed under Version 1.1. What now?
Version 1.1 assessments were allowed only until 31 May 2026, and from 01 June 2026 every assessment is against Version 2.0. Remaining Version 1.1 conformity statements leave the public register after 31 May 2027.
How many of the 205 documents do we use every day?
You run on the 98 control forms and records, mostly shift level checks of a few minutes. The 69 procedures get read, approved, then opened when something changes.
Can we put our own logo and name on them?
Yes. Editable Word and Excel with no other company’s name in them, so you set your own header, numbering and approval block.
Does ASC perform the assessment?
No. A licensed conformity assessment body that you appoint does that. ASC does the work either side, gap audits, implementation support, internal audits and training.
If the deadline is on you, the toolkit can be open on your screen today.
R4,500, no VAT. All 205 documents, the full Self-Assessment Checklist and one hour of consultation. Ask for the invoice or payment link and book your consultation hour at the same time.