On November 26th 2018, the Board of Stakeholders (BoS) for FSSC 22000 version 4.1 decided that from 31 January 2019, new additional requirements shall be taken into consideration by CBs (Certification Bodies).
The reason for adding new requirements is because FSSC 22000 is benchmarked against the GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative). The FSSC 22000 scheme follows an extensive benchmarking process using the requirements that are laid out in the so called GFSI Guidance Document/Benchmarking requirements. As a result of this, FSSC 22000 must be adapted on thirteen requirements.