Potential ISO 22000 accreditation by UKAS.

The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) currently have over 130 accredited certification bodies offering certification to clients all over the world. Of these 130 certification bodies a select handful has been chosen by UKAS to form an ISO 22000 pilot scheme in late 2005. Independent European Certification Ltd is proud to have been selected to join this new and exciting scheme. The aim of this new pilot is to agree on the certification requirements provided by the certification bodies and ensure that the bodies selected are competent to audit to the standard. The output from this scheme will be that companies will be able to receive a UKAS accredited ISO 22000 certificate once they have been successfully audited by one of the accredited members of the pilot scheme. It is anticipated that the first accredited certificates to be issued on completion of the pilot phase will occur in the summer of 2006.