The food industry faces increasingly demanding standards: GFSI schemes such as FSSC 22000 are virtually mandatory for exporting to international markets. However, most professionals and companies are unfamiliar with the scheme’s detailed structure, its additional requirements (food fraud, food defense, and food safety culture), and how to integrate them effectively into their operations. Failed audits result in multimillion-dollar costs and lost markets.
If you are a quality professional, internal auditor, consultant, or plant manager, you know that implementing FSSC 22000 goes beyond documentation. This diploma program gives you a strategic and operational command of the FSSC 22000 scheme to lead successful implementations and prepare your organization for certification.
Upon completing the program, you will become the specialist the global food industry needs: able to implement an FSSC 22000 system from the ground up, lead risk-based internal audits, manage VACCP and TACCP programs, measure food safety culture, and successfully prepare your organization for certification. Your expertise will be key to accessing international markets and reducing operational risks.
Duration: 160 academic hours · Format: Self-paced online · Level: Advanced specialization in food safety
Overall objective: Develop advanced skills for implementing, auditing, and strategically managing the FSSC 22000 scheme (version 6), integrating ISO 22000 requirements, prerequisite programs, food fraud, food defense, food safety culture, and continual improvement under GFSI standards.