ISO 22002-100:2025 is the prerequisite programme standard that sits under every food chain category in FSSC 22000 Version 7 except trading. It holds the PRP requirements common to the food, feed and packaging supply chain. Each sector then has its own part that adds only what is specific to it, so a food factory works to ISO 22002-100:2025 and ISO 22002-1:2025 together.
It replaces the old arrangement in which each sector had its own complete ISO/TS 22002 technical specification. For most certified sites in South Africa this is the largest single piece of work in the Version 7 upgrade, because the PRP programme touches cleaning, pest control, maintenance, personnel hygiene, purchasing and storage at the same time. Our free FSSC 22000 Version 7 Upgrade Handbook has a printable PRP gap register to work from.
Why did ISO restructure the PRP standards?
The old ISO/TS 22002 documents were written separately over ten years, so the same topic, say pest control, was worded differently in the manufacturing, catering and packaging documents. A company running a factory, a cold store and a canteen dealt with three versions of the same requirement. The 2025 series puts the shared requirements into one document, Part 100, and keeps the sector parts for what genuinely differs.
The documents also changed status. The ISO/TS documents were technical specifications, while the 2025 parts are international standards. The Foundation’s Version 7 FAQ explains that this is why the “TS” was dropped.
Which parts apply to your site?
| Your FSSC 22000 category | Standards you need |
|---|---|
| BIII packhouses and pre-process handling of plant products | ISO 22002-100:2025 and ISO 22002-1:2025 |
| C food manufacturing, including pet food and abattoirs | ISO 22002-100:2025 and ISO 22002-1:2025 |
| D feed and animal food | ISO 22002-100:2025 and ISO 22002-6:2025 |
| E catering and food service | ISO 22002-100:2025 and ISO 22002-2:2025 |
| FI retail and wholesale | ISO 22002-100:2025 and ISO 22002-7:2025 |
| FII brokering and trading without physical handling | No PRP standard |
| G transport and storage | ISO 22002-100:2025 and ISO 22002-5:2025 |
| I packaging manufacturing | ISO 22002-100:2025 and ISO 22002-4:2025 |
| K bio/chemicals | ISO 22002-100:2025 and ISO 22002-1:2025 |
A packaging converter that makes only packaging does not need the food manufacturing part, a point the Foundation confirms in its FAQ. A site with more than one category needs Part 100 plus each relevant sector part. A food manufacturer that also stores product for a sister company adds category G under Part 1, clause 3.6, so it works to Part 100, Part 1 and Part 5.
Retail and wholesale is the category with the biggest jump. It moves from a British PAS document to ISO 22002-7, a part that did not exist before the 2025 series.
What moved from the FSSC additional requirements into Part 100?
Some of what used to be written out in full in FSSC 22000 Part 2 now lives in ISO 22002-100, and the scheme simply points to it. This is why the FSSC requirements on food defence and food fraud look shorter in Version 7. The threat assessment for food defence now sits in ISO 22002-100 clause 16.2 and the vulnerability assessment for food fraud in clause 16.3. FSSC requirements 2.5.3 and 2.5.4 add one thing on top: the plans have to be developed and maintained by people with the knowledge and competence to do it.
Food loss and waste works the other way round. ISO 22002-100 clause 8.1 deals with managing food loss and waste so that it does not contaminate product. It does not require a reduction programme. The reduction policy, the measurable targets with timelines, and the controls on donations and animal feed come from FSSC requirement 2.5.16, which applies to every category except packaging.
So a shorter FSSC requirement is not a lighter one. The detail has moved into a standard you have to buy and read.
Where the old ISO/TS 22002-1 clauses went
If your PRP manual is laid out by the old ISO/TS 22002-1:2009 clause numbers, this map helps you find each topic in Part 100. It covers the moves that catch people out. Check every line against your licensed copy, because some topics were split or reworded as well as renumbered.
| Topic | ISO/TS 22002-1:2009 | ISO 22002-100:2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Pest control | Clause 12 | Clause 7 |
| Waste, now food loss and waste | Clause 7 | Clause 8 |
| Product information and consumer awareness | Clause 17 | Clause 15 |
| Food defence, with food fraud now beside it in 16.3 | Clause 18 | Clause 16 |
How to run the PRP gap assessment without rewriting everything
Do not start by replacing “ISO/TS 22002-1” with “ISO 22002-100 and ISO 22002-1” throughout your manual. That changes the references and nothing else, and an auditor reading Part 100 will find what you missed. Work from the new standards outwards.
- Buy the two standards for your category from ISO or South Africa’s national standards body. They are copyright documents and sharing an unlicensed copy infringes the publisher’s copyright, so budget for licensed copies.
- List every clause of Part 100 and your sector part in a register, one row per requirement.
- Map each row to where your system already meets it, with the procedure, the record and the person who owns it. Most rows will map, because good PRPs do not change much from one edition to the next.
- Mark each gap as missing (nothing covers it), weak (something exists but would not satisfy the new wording) or a reference gap (the content is fine but the document still cites the old standard).
- Rank the gaps by food safety risk first and effort second, and give each one an owner and a date.
- Fix the gaps, then run the programme. An auditor will sample records, so give each changed programme time to produce them before your upgrade audit.
On a typical medium factory the register runs to a few hundred rows, and most of them close as “already met, update the reference”. The value is in the rows that do not. If you would rather not build the register from a blank page, our FSSC 22000 Version 7 document toolkits give you PRP procedures and records for your category to adapt to the 2025 standards.
An example from a packaging converter
Take a flexible packaging printer in Gauteng, category I-1, making printed laminates for snack brands. Under Version 6 it worked to ISO/TS 22002-4:2013. Under Version 7 it needs ISO 22002-100:2025 and ISO 22002-4:2025, not the food manufacturing part. Because it prints, FSSC 2.5.2 asks for artwork management and print control procedures, and its hazard analysis has to deal with ink and adhesive migration and set-off.
Where it specifies the laminate for a customer rather than only printing to the customer’s specification, the new 2.5.13 item (g) applies. Each new design then has to consider containment and protection, shelf life, food loss and waste and consumer instructions, as applicable and never at the expense of food safety. Requirement 2.5.11(a) asks for specific requirements wherever its packaging is meant to have a functional effect on the food, such as extending shelf life, and 2.5.1(e) asks for criteria on any recycled material it uses.
Because it is category I, the food loss and waste requirement 2.5.16 does not apply. Environmental monitoring under 2.5.7 does, which surprises some converters.
What your certification body will check
Every auditor working under Version 7 has to pass an exam on ISO 22002-100:2025 and the sector parts they audit before they can audit to Version 7, and the requalification deadline is 1 May 2027. Expect them to know Part 100 well. Expect them to ask where in your system a given clause is met, and to walk the floor to see it.
The ISO committee notes that these documents are not treated as main standards by the international accreditation community, so there is no default transition period for them. Each scheme sets its own. For FSSC 22000, that is the Version 7 upgrade window, 1 May 2027 to 30 April 2028. Until your upgrade audit, keep working to the ISO/TS documents your Version 6 certificate is based on. Our page on FSSC 22000 Version 7 changes has the dates, and the Version 7 transition deadline guide has a month by month timetable.
Courses on the 2025 PRP standards, and document toolkits
The Implementation course for food manufacturing at R5,500 works through ISO 22002-100:2025 and ISO 22002-1:2025 clause group by clause group, and each sector course does the same for its own part. Each module ends with a knowledge check, each course has a graded final assessment, and you receive a certificate when you pass. The two page course brochure lists every FSSC 22000 Version 7 course with prices.
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Questions South African sites ask about Version 7
What is ISO 22002-100:2025?
It is the common prerequisite programme standard for the food, feed and packaging supply chain, published in 2025. Under FSSC 22000 Version 7 every category except FII applies it together with a sector part.
Does ISO 22002-100 replace ISO 22002-1?
No. ISO 22002-1:2025 still exists as the food manufacturing part, but it now holds only what goes beyond Part 100. A food manufacturer applies both.
Can I keep using ISO/TS 22002-1:2009?
Until your Version 7 upgrade audit, yes, because Version 6 references it. Your upgrade audit, between 1 May 2027 and 30 April 2028, is against the 2025 standards.
Do we need to buy the standards?
Yes. ISO standards are copyright documents. Buy licensed copies from ISO or your national standards body.
Sources
- Foundation FSSC, FSSC 22000 Scheme Version 7.0, May 2026, Part 1 Table 1 and Part 2
- Foundation FSSC, FSSC 22000 Version 7 FAQ
- Foundation FSSC, FSSC 22000 Version 7: Key Changes Explained
- ISO/TC 34/SC 17, Publication of the ISO 22002 series: Prerequisite Programmes for food safety, 12 September 2025
- Foundation FSSC, Version 7 Upgrade Process