ISO 22002-100:2025: What the New PRPs Change for Moroccan Sites

What is the ISO 22002-x:2025 series?

It is the new series of ISO standards on food safety prerequisite programmes (PRPs), which FSSC 22000 Version 7 makes mandatory. According to the Foundation FSSC’s article Key Changes Explained, ISO 22002-100:2025 was published in July 2025 to bring the common requirements together and remove duplication between sectors.

The series has two levels. Part 100 applies to everyone: it sets the requirements for the food chain, animal feed and packaging. A sector part comes on top and only contains what goes beyond Part 100. Appendix 2 of the Version 7 scheme lists six 2025 sector parts: 1 (food manufacturing), 2 (catering), 4 (packaging manufacturing), 5 (transport and storage), 6 (animal feed) and 7 (retail and wholesale).

The change of status matters as much as the content. The old texts were ISO/TS technical specifications; the Version 7 FAQ points out that they are now international standards, hence the disappearance of the “TS”. For retail and wholesale, BSI/PAS 221:2013 also disappears from the scheme.

Which part applies to your plant?

The one that Table 1 of Part 1 sets for your FSSC category, always on top of Part 100. Here is the mapping for the most common activities in Morocco, with what Version 6 required.

A site that combines several categories, for example a cannery that rents out cold storage space to a sister company, applies the parts for every category in its scope.

What actually changes in the plant?

Six things, and none of them is settled by changing a number in a manual.

1. The standards library. You need to buy ISO 22002-100:2025 and the sector part, and remove the ISO/TS documents from the active reference documents. In Morocco, the online catalogue of IMANOR (Institut marocain de normalisation, Morocco’s national standards body) lists the Moroccan standard NM ISO 22002-100 and the sector parts NM ISO 22002-1, -2, -4, -5, -6 and -7: ask IMANOR which edition and language are available before ordering.

2. The PRP cross-reference table. For each clause of Part 100 and of the sector part, record the procedure, instruction or record that meets it, and the gap. We do not reproduce a clause-by-clause mapping with the old ISO/TS 22002-x documents: they are paid ISO texts, and the table is built on the standard the site has purchased.

3. The references in the additional requirements. Several FSSC headings now rest on specific clauses: 16.2 and 16.3 of ISO 22002-100:2025 for food defence and food fraud, 11.1 for time and temperature after slaughter, 10 and 12 of ISO 22002-1:2025 for the procurement of animals and fish and for slaughterhouse inspection. Part 100 also deals with food loss and waste (clause 8.1), but only to prevent contamination; the reduction strategy stays in additional requirement 2.5.16.

4. The inspection checklists. Requirement 2.5.12 calls for regular, risk-based site inspections “linked to the relevant technical specification”. Your checklists must therefore cite the new clauses. In Version 7, this requirement extends to catering (E) and to retail and wholesale (FI).

5. How findings are raised. Annex 2 of the scheme sets a new rule for auditors: a PRP nonconformity is written against the clause of ISO 22002-100, unless it concerns a requirement specific to the sector part. Your action plans will therefore cite those clauses. The same report template lists what the auditor summarises: site boundaries, environment, construction, water, ice and steam, air and ventilation, pests, waste, maintenance, personnel hygiene and health status, food defence and food fraud.

6. Service providers. Pest control, cleaning, transport or laboratory contracts: their specifications often refer to the old texts. Update them at the same time as your procedures.

On the certification body side, auditors must pass a training course and an exam on ISO 22002-100:2025 and the sector parts for their categories before any v7 audit. The minimum PRP training for a new auditor is at least 3 hours on Part 100 and the relevant parts.

How much time is left to switch?

Until your upgrade audit, which will fall between 1 May 2027 and 30 April 2028. The ISO/TS documents remain the reference for v6 audits, possible until 30 April 2027. The full timetable is in our article on the FSSC 22000 Version 7 timeline, and every change in the scheme in our guide to FSSC 22000 Version 7 changes.

For a cannery or a packhouse, the real timetable is the works schedule. If the new cross-reference reveals a gap on floors, flows or zone separation, it has to be dealt with outside peak season. Build the cross-reference table early: it is what tells you whether works are needed.

Which checklist should you follow?

• Confirm the FSSC category of every activity in the scope.
  
• Buy ISO 22002-100:2025 and every applicable sector part.
  
• Build the cross-reference table clause by clause, with the gaps.
  
• Update the PRP inspection checklists and their risk-based frequency.
  
• Link food defence and food fraud to clauses 16.2 and 16.3.
  
• Update service provider contracts and specifications.
  
• Train the food safety team and the internal auditors on the new standards.
  
• Carry out a full PRP inspection with the new checklists before the v7 internal audit.
  

The overall order of the transition work is set out in our FSSC 22000 v6 to v7 upgrade plan.