Packaging and food contact materials
ISO 9001:2026 document toolkit
202 editable documents, roughly 553 000 words, written to the sixth edition of ISO 9001 published on 16 September 2026 and built for a food contact packaging manufacturing operation. Clauses 4 to 10 in full, ten packaging quality control modules, six QMS enabler modules, 12 Excel risk assessment workbooks with live formulas, a 123-row internal audit checklist and a transition gap analysis checklist. Word and Excel, once-off, no subscription.
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Digital delivery by email after payment, so there is no shipping, no customs and no difference in how long it takes to reach you wherever you are. Launch price holds until 30 November 2026. All prices on this page are excluding VAT, and no VAT is added at checkout.
Payment is taken in South African rand. Card payments from outside South Africa are accepted by our payment provider; if your card is declined, contact us and we will invoice you directly. The launch price of R5 480 applies until 30 November 2026, after which the price is R6 850. Prices are excluding VAT and no VAT is added at checkout, so R5 480 is what you pay. Once-off purchase, no subscription and no renewal fee. For comparison, Advisera sells a 61-document ISO 9001 toolkit from US$897, roughly R16 000, and ASC’s own FSSC 22000 V7 food contact packaging toolkit is R6 350.
Download free sample documents before you decide. The samples are taken from the toolkit as it ships, not rewritten for the website.
Why this matters now
The 2026 edition changed what your documents have to say
ISO 9001:2026 is the sixth edition. It was published on 16 September 2026, cancels and replaces ISO 9001:2015, and incorporates Amendment 1:2024, the climate change amendment. Certified organisations have until 30 September 2029 to complete the transition, under the three year transition set by Global Accreditation Cooperation, known as Global ACI, which took over the work of the IAF when the IAF ceased operations on 1 January 2026. From 31 March 2028 new and initial accredited certifications may only be issued to the 2026 edition. Confirm the exact dates with your own certification body. Confirm the clause lettering against your own controlled copy of ISO 9001:2026. A 2015-era document set will not carry you through a transition audit, because several of the documents it is built around no longer match the clause.
- A separate opportunity register. Clause 6.1.3 is a new dedicated sub-clause. Opportunities must be determined, analysed, evaluated, planned, integrated, implemented and evaluated for effectiveness in their own right. A combined risk and opportunity register does not satisfy it, because 6.1.2 is now separated and focused on undesired effects. This is the single biggest new build for a certified site.
- A rebuilt change record. Clause 6.3 went from four considerations to seven, adding communication of the changes, monitoring and evaluating their effectiveness, and reviewing the results. That is three new columns on the record you already keep.
- Quality culture and ethical behaviour, evidenced. It lands at 5.1.1 i), in a note under 7.1.4 and at 7.3 e). Clause 5.1.1 went from ten items to twelve. It is satisfied by dated top management actions with measurable outcomes, not by posters, a values statement or a culture survey with no recorded action.
- Written acceptance criteria. Clause 8.1 is restructured a) to e) and separates process criteria from acceptance criteria. On a converting line that means the tolerance lives in a controlled document, not in the operator’s head.
- An eight-heading management review. Clause 9.3 went from six inputs to eight, adding c) changes in the needs and expectations of interested parties, and splitting risks from opportunities at g) and h). Clause 9.1.3 is now eight items a) to h), with e) and f) splitting the effectiveness of risk actions from opportunity actions.
- Audit objectives on every plan. Clause 9.2.2 a) now requires you to define the audit objectives, criteria and scope for each audit. One sentence per audit plan, on every plan.
- Climate change on the record. Clause 4.1 requires you to determine whether climate change is a relevant issue, and 4.2 adds a note that interested parties can have climate-related requirements. That came from Amendment 1:2024 rather than from the revision, and it is satisfied by one dated context register entry with issue, determination, reason, owner and date.
- No quality manual required. Neither the 2015 nor the 2026 edition has ever required a quality manual, six documented procedures or a management representative. This toolkit includes a quality manual and a QMR appointment record, and says plainly in both that neither is required — they are there because customers ask for them, and you can delete them without creating a nonconformity. What it gives you is documented information your processes can actually follow.
Contents
Everything in the toolkit, part by part
202 documents in three parts: 190 Word and 12 Excel, approximately 553 000 words. Every document is editable, carries your own document control fields, and is cross-referenced to the clause it serves.
Part 1 – ISO 9001:2026, clauses 4 to 10
Policies, procedures, work instructions, registers and control forms covering the whole standard, written to the sixth edition text rather than converted from a 2015 set.
| Clause | What Part 1 gives you |
|---|---|
| 4 Context | Context analysis and context register including the climate change determination at 4.1; interested parties register with the 4.2 c) column for which requirements will be addressed through the QMS, plus review dates; scope statement; process map and process interaction with the a) to i) listing from 4.4 |
| 5 Leadership | Quality policy written to the 5.2.1 e) standalone requirement on context and strategic direction; leadership commitment evidence pack covering all twelve items a) to l) at 5.1.1, including i) quality culture and ethical behaviour and k) risk-based and opportunity-based thinking; customer focus record; responsibilities and authorities matrix split to the six items a) to f) at 5.3, separating reporting on QMS performance from reporting on opportunities and carrying f) integrity of the QMS during change |
| 6 Planning | Risk methodology and risk register under 6.1.2, with the analyse and evaluate steps; a separate opportunity register and opportunity procedure under 6.1.3 covering determine, analyse, evaluate, plan, integrate, implement and evaluate effectiveness; quality objectives plan to the a) to h) listing at 6.2.1, with 6.2.2 a) to e) unchanged; change control procedure and change record rebuilt to the seven considerations at 6.3, including e) communication, f) monitoring and evaluating effectiveness and g) reviewing the results |
| 7 Support | Resources, infrastructure and work environment; monitoring and measuring resources with calibration register and measurement traceability; organizational knowledge register written to the 7.1.6 wording of retained, applied and shared; competence matrix and training records; awareness pack built to the five items at 7.3, including e) the organizational quality culture and ethical behaviour; internal and external communication plan; document control procedure and master list using the 7.5 available-as-documented-information wording |
| 8 Operation | Operational planning and control to the restructured 8.1 a) to e), separating process criteria from acceptance criteria and covering planned and unintended changes and externally provided processes; customer requirements determination and review; customer communication procedure carrying 8.2.1 e) on contingency actions and disruptions to supply; design and development control; supplier and external provider evaluation, control and re-evaluation; production and service provision control including identification and traceability, customer property, preservation, post-delivery activities and control of changes; release of product under 8.6; control of nonconforming outputs and concession under 8.7 |
| 9 Performance evaluation | Monitoring and measurement plan; customer satisfaction procedure and survey set under 9.1.2; analysis and evaluation to the eight items a) to h) at 9.1.3, with separate lines for the effectiveness of risk actions and of opportunity actions; internal audit programme, audit plans carrying the objectives sentence required by 9.2.2 a), auditor competence and independence records, audit report and nonconformity forms; management review agenda, input pack and minutes template built to the eight inputs at 9.3 including c) changes in the needs and expectations of interested parties |
| 10 Improvement | Improvement procedure under the restructured clause 10, now two sub-clauses rather than three; nonconformity and corrective action procedure, form and register, including customer complaints as a source of nonconformities; root cause analysis toolset; continual improvement log with references renumbered away from the old 10.3 |
Part 2 – ten packaging quality control modules
This is the part a generic ISO 9001 toolkit does not have. Each module is a working set of procedures, work instructions, forms and registers for a converting operation making food contact packaging.
| Module | What it covers |
|---|---|
| 1. Artwork, print and colour | Artwork approval and version control at the line, proofing, colour standards and tolerances, print defect classification, press-side sign-off |
| 2. Converting | Set-up and first-off approval, in-process checks, run control, waste and reject handling, changeover control |
| 3. Laboratory and test methods | Test method sheets, sample plans, retained samples, lab competence, result recording and out-of-specification handling |
| 4. Statistical process control and capability | Control charts, sampling rules, capability studies and the decision rules for when a process is judged capable |
| 5. Measurement system analysis | Gauge studies, repeatability and reproducibility, measurement uncertainty and the link to 7.1.5 monitoring and measuring resources |
| 6. Customer specific requirements | Capturing, reviewing and flowing down a customer’s own requirements, and proving at audit that you met them |
| 7. Identification, labelling and packing | Batch identification, traceability through converting, label control, pack and pallet configuration |
| 8. Warehousing and dispatch | Stock control, stock rotation, damage and segregation, loading checks, on-time-in-full measurement |
| 9. Equipment, tooling and maintenance | Tooling registers, planned maintenance, breakdown and return-to-service control, tooling wear and its effect on tolerance |
| 10. Cost of poor quality | Capturing scrap, rework, complaint and concession cost so improvement has a number attached and 9.1.3 has something to analyse |
Part 3 – six QMS enabler modules
| Module | What it covers |
|---|---|
| 1. Quality culture and ethical behaviour | The evidence pack for 5.1.1 i), 7.1.4 and 7.3 e): dated top management actions with measurable outcomes, floor interview practice, multilingual induction material, and the working definition from the 5.1.1 Note 2 wording on shared values, attitudes, practices and actions |
| 2. Climate change and sustainability | The 4.1 determination record, the 4.2 note on climate-related requirements of interested parties, and how to record a determination of not relevant without leaving the entry blank |
| 3. Organizational knowledge | Knowledge register, capture on people leaving, and the retained, applied and shared wording at 7.1.6 |
| 4. Resilience and business continuity | Continuity planning and the contingency communication trigger that 8.2.1 e) requires in the customer communication procedure |
| 5. Risk and opportunity methodology | The methodology behind the two separated registers: scoring, proportionality, analysis and evaluation for 6.1.2, and the full 6.1.3 cycle for opportunities |
| 6. Transition from 2015 to 2026 | The transition gap analysis checklist that separates the genuinely new requirements from the terminology tidying at 7.5 and the renumbering at 4.4 and clause 10, with a transition plan and evidence log |
The tools that come with it
- 12 Excel risk assessment workbooks with live formulas. 5×5 scoring, inherent and residual scores, conditional formatting, drop-down lists and an action tracker on every one. They calculate; you do not rebuild them.
- A 123-row internal audit checklist. Every sub-clause from 4.1 to 10.2, with the 2026-specific rows flagged so a transition audit and a full system audit come from the same file.
- A transition gap analysis checklist. Written so a certified site does the work that is real and skips the work that is not.
- An integration matrix. Thirty-eight clause-level rows from 4.1 to 10.2 mapping ISO 9001:2026 against ISO 22000:2018 and FSSC 22000 V7, each marked SHARE, EXTEND or SEPARATE, with the decision recorded and signed. 20 of its 38 clause rows are marked SHARE and 13 EXTEND, which means one context register, one interested parties register, one competence matrix, one calibration register, one document control system, one internal audit programme and one management review across both certificates. One column of the matrix references document numbers in our companion FSSC 22000 toolkit, TK02, so on that column you are reading our numbering rather than yours.
- A master product and process specification. Every parameter held once, so no two documents can state a different limit. This is the document that stops an auditor finding two tolerances for the same seal.
- Built on ISO 19011:2026. The audit documents follow the fourth edition of the auditing guidelines, including its new guidance on remote auditing and virtual locations.
- A note on versions. FSSC 22000 Version 7 is the version to build to, but V6 remains the version being audited until 30 April 2027, with V7 upgrade audits from 1 May 2027 to 30 April 2028. The additional requirement numbering used here is the 2.5.x numbering both versions share. Confirm your own upgrade audit date with your certification body.
- An independent proof-read, and the report that proves it. Before release the set was read by an ISO 9001 lead auditor, a packaging technical manager and a document control specialist. The proof-read and remediation report ships with the toolkit, so you can see what was checked and what was changed.
Free samples
Read it before you buy it
Sample documents are available to download, taken from the toolkit exactly as it ships. They are the fastest way to judge whether the writing is at the level your site needs, whether the document control fields suit your system, and whether the Excel workbooks calculate the way you want.
Be clear on what you are buying
What a toolkit does, and what it does not do
What a toolkit does, and what it does not do
You get the documented system already written and structured to ISO 9001:2026: the policies, procedures, work instructions, forms, registers and risk assessments, in Word and Excel, editable throughout. That is normally the slowest part of getting certified and the part that is close to identical from one converting site to the next. It is also the line on the budget with the widest spread, because the alternative is a consultant writing it at a day rate from a blank page.
It does not implement itself. Someone at your site still has to make the documents true, with your process steps, your tolerances, your suppliers, your equipment and your monitoring records. A template that still carries an example tolerance is worse than no template at all, and an auditor will find it. Nobody can write your quality objectives for you either, because 6.2 requires them to be consistent with your policy and your context.
Two things in particular are yours. The opportunity register under 6.1.3 has to hold your opportunities, not a sample list. The evidence for 5.1.1 i) has to be dated actions your top management actually took, with measurable outcomes, because posters and a values statement do not satisfy it. The toolkit gives you the structure, the prompts and the forms for both. It cannot give you the content.
The food contact compliance content is written to the EU framework: Regulation (EC) 1935/2004, Regulation (EU) 10/2011, the GMP Regulation and Regulation (EU) 2024/3190 on bisphenols, because that is what South African brand owners and export customers ask converters to declare against. If you supply the domestic market only, the South African requirements under R638 of the Foodstuffs Act are yours to add, and the structure is built to take them.
Local law stays local and is yours to add. Legal metrology, labelling, permits and any NRCS requirement that applies to your product are not in the standard and are not in the toolkit.
Before you buy
Questions people ask
Which edition is this written to, and when does our 2015 certificate expire?
ISO 9001:2026, the sixth edition, published 16 September 2026. It cancels and replaces ISO 9001:2015 and incorporates Amendment 1:2024. The transition period set by Global Accreditation Cooperation, known as Global ACI, which took over the work of the IAF when the IAF ceased operations on 1 January 2026, is three years, so certified organisations have until 30 September 2029 to complete the transition. From 31 March 2028 new and initial accredited certifications may only be issued to the 2026 edition. Confirm the exact dates with your own certification body.
We are already certified to 2015. Is this a transition kit or a full system?
Both. Part 3 includes a transition gap analysis checklist that separates the genuinely new requirements from the terminology tidying at 7.5 and the renumbering at 4.4 and clause 10, plus a transition plan and evidence log. Parts 1 and 2 give you the rebuilt documents where the clause changed: the separated registers under 6.1.2 and 6.1.3, the change record rebuilt to the seven considerations at 6.3, the responsibilities matrix split at 5.3, and the management review agenda rebuilt to eight inputs at 9.3. A site that only needs the transition still gets the whole set.
We make food contact packaging, not food. Is this the right toolkit?
Yes. Part 2 is ten packaging quality control modules written for a converting operation: artwork, print and colour; converting; laboratory and test methods; statistical process control and capability; measurement system analysis; customer specific requirements; identification, labelling and packing; warehousing and dispatch; equipment, tooling and maintenance; and cost of poor quality. A generic ISO 9001 toolkit gives you clauses 4 to 10 and stops there.
We hold FSSC 22000 or BRCGS. Will this duplicate what we already have?
That is what the integration matrix is for. It is thirty-eight clause-level rows from 4.1 to 10.2 mapping ISO 9001:2026 against ISO 22000:2018 and FSSC 22000 V7, each marked SHARE, EXTEND or SEPARATE, with the decision recorded and signed. 20 of its 38 clause rows are marked SHARE and 13 EXTEND, which means one context register, one interested parties register, one competence matrix, one calibration register, one document control system, one internal audit programme and one management review across both certificates. One column references document numbers in our companion FSSC 22000 toolkit, TK02. See ISO 9001 versus FSSC 22000: do we need both?
What format is it in, and can we edit it?
190 Word documents and 12 Excel workbooks, editable throughout, in English. The Excel workbooks carry live formulas, 5×5 scoring, inherent and residual scores, conditional formatting, drop-down lists and an action tracker. There is no locked content, no macro you cannot see and no portal. Delivered by email after payment.
Is this a subscription?
No. It is a once-off purchase at R5 480 during the launch period and R6 850 afterwards, both excluding VAT, and no VAT is added at checkout. There is no renewal fee and no per-user licence. For comparison, Advisera sells a 61-document ISO 9001 toolkit from US$897, roughly R16 000.
Has anyone checked it apart from the people who wrote it?
Yes. Before release the set was independently proof-read by an ISO 9001 lead auditor, a packaging technical manager and a document control specialist. The proof-read and remediation report ships with the toolkit, so you can see what was checked and what was changed rather than taking the claim on trust.
Will buying this get us certified?
No, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling. The toolkit is the documented system. You still have to make the documents true for your site, run the system long enough to generate records, complete at least one internal audit cycle and one management review, then pass a stage 1 and a stage 2 audit by an independent certification body accredited by SANAS or an equivalent body. If you want help with that part, see our ISO 9001 implementation consulting.
Why is the price in South African rand?
Because ASC is a South African company based in Gqeberha and prices in the currency it trades in. Card payments from outside South Africa are accepted by our payment provider. If your card is declined, contact us and we will invoice you directly.
Train the people who will use it
The documents are half of it. The people are the other half.
An auditor interviews operators, not folders. Clause 7.3 e) now includes the organizational quality culture and ethical behaviour in what people must be aware of, and it is not satisfied by a signed attendance register. All three courses are self-paced with lifetime access, a 70 percent pass mark and three attempts.
| Course | Who it is for | Length | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transition to ISO 9001:2026 | A site already certified to 2015 that must move the certificate. Includes an interactive Transition Planner | About 8 hours, 22 lessons | R1 950 |
| Introduction to ISO 9001:2026 | Everyone who works inside the system but does not build it: supervisors, line leaders, QA staff, anyone an auditor will interview | About 6 hours, 21 lessons | R1 495 |
| ISO 9001:2026 Understanding and Implementation | The people who build, upgrade or run the system. 7 interactive tools, 68 case packs, a marked workbook and a proctored final | About 24 hours, 75 lessons | R4 800 |
The usual pattern on a site is one or two people on Implementation and everyone else on the Introduction. Five or more people, ask about a group arrangement.
New to the standard entirely? Start with what ISO 9001 means for a South African manufacturer, then ISO 9001:2026 versus 2015, clause by clause and what certification actually costs in South Africa.
Tell us what you convert and we will confirm the scope
If you are not sure whether Part 2 matches your converting operation, or whether you need the full set or only the transition material, send us your scope and your current certificate position. It is quicker to get that right before you buy than to correct it during a transition audit. Launch price R5 480 until 30 November 2026, then R6 850. Prices are excluding VAT and no VAT is added at checkout.
ISO 9001:2026, ISO 9000, ISO 22000:2018 and ISO 19011:2026 are published by the International Organization for Standardization. FSSC 22000 is operated by Foundation FSSC. BRCGS standards are owned by BRCGS. Advisera is an unrelated third party and the price quoted for its toolkit is a published list price at the time of writing, for comparison only. ASC Food Safety Consultants is an independent consultancy, training provider and auditing firm. This toolkit and our courses are independent products and are not approved, endorsed or accredited by ISO, by Foundation FSSC, by BRCGS or by any certification body. The 30 September 2029 date is set by Global Accreditation Cooperation, known as Global ACI, in document Global ACI-TECH-3-TR. Confirm the dates that apply to your certificate with your own certification body.