ISO 22002-4:2025 Prerequisite Programmes for Food Packaging Manufacturing
About Course
If your PRP manual still cites ISO/TS 22002-4:2013, it cites a withdrawn document. ISO 22002-4:2025 replaced it in July 2025, it cannot be used without ISO 22002-100:2025, and from 1 May 2027 FSSC 22000 audits of packaging sites are against Version 7 and this 2025 pair.
This 12-hour online ISO 22002-4 course takes you through every PRP clause of the pair as it applies on a converting floor. You finish with a scored gap assessment of your own site, ready for your Technical Manager.
Is it for me? Yes, if you are a food safety coordinator, QA supervisor, technical officer, or production or engineering manager at a packaging site preparing for FSSC 22000 Version 7, category I.
After the course you can:
- Gap assess a packaging site against ISO 22002-4:2025 read with ISO 22002-100:2025.
- Write PRP procedures that match what happens on the floor, on every shift.
- Use monitoring and verification records, and their trends, to show an auditor that your PRPs work.
Six modules, 36 lessons:
- What changed in 2025, and site, layout and building standards
- Utilities, waste, equipment, maintenance and calibration
- Purchased materials, suppliers and contamination control
- Hygiene zoning, environmental monitoring and allergen controls
- Cleaning, pest control, personnel hygiene, warehousing and transport
- Rework, traceability, withdrawal and verifying that PRPs work
Will it work in my plant? Every lesson is set on Mzansi Pack, a fictional converter in Germiston built from real audit patterns on South African sites. Its 35 case packs come from events you will recognise: an ink odour complaint, a laminate released before cure, a blade tip beside a slitter, two print versions in one pallet.
What you get: a gap assessment tool that scores 45 rows, ranks the gaps, gives a readiness figure and exports to Excel. Knowledge checks, games, a proctored final and a marked workshop assignment, each passed at 70 percent with three attempts. Then a QR-verified ASC certificate.
Is it worth R2 450? That is the once-off price, with no VAT charged. A critical nonconformity at stage 2 fails the audit and the full certification audit is repeated. At a certified site it suspends the certificate within 3 working days. For the whole scheme, take ASC’s FSSC 22000 packaging course. To get the PRPs working on the floor, take this one.
Buy ISO 22002-4:2025 and ISO 22002-100:2025 to use alongside it. The course does not reproduce ISO text.
Course Content
Module 1: Module 1: What changed in 2025, and site, layout and building standards
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From a 2013 technical specification to a 2025 pair of standards
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Reading the pair clause by clause
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Where FSSC 22000 Version 7 fits for a category I site
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Boundaries, environment and the building shell
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Inside the halls: structures, fittings and where equipment sits
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Storage areas and segregation
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Module 1 knowledge check
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Find the clause
Module 2: Module 2: Utilities, waste, equipment, maintenance and calibration
Module 3: Module 3: Purchased materials, suppliers and contamination control
Module 4: Module 4: Hygiene zoning, environmental monitoring and allergen controls
Module 5: Module 5: Cleaning, pest control, personnel hygiene, warehousing and transport
Module 6: Module 6: Rework, traceability, withdrawal and verifying that PRPs work
Assignment, final assessment and course review
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