Press ReleasesNippon Paper Industries Obtains FSSC 22000 Food Safety Management System CertificationCertification Obtained by Two Liquid Packaging Carton Manufacturing Companies

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. (President: Fumio Manoshiro; hereinafter referred to as "Nippon Paper Industries") has obtained certification in the international food safety management system standard FSSC 22000 (*) for two of its four liquid packaging carton producing companies, Soka Paper-Pak Co., Ltd. (President: Yutaka Kaneko) and Egawa Paper-Pak Co., Ltd. (President: Takashi Omori). Certification was obtained in order to cater to both domestic and overseas demands for the provision of safe and secure liquid packaging cartons.
Even up until this point, these liquid packaging carton manufacturers had established their own unique quality management systems, incorporating HACCP concepts based on the ISO 9001 standard. Moving forward, with the introduction of FSSC 22000, we will aim to construct even more advanced, more reliable food safety management systems, and perform continuous improvements.
Additional efforts are also underway with a view to obtaining certification forother two companies, Miki Paper-Pak Co., Ltd. (President: Hidehiko Ishikawa; Location: Miki City, Hyogo Prefecture) and Ishioka Kako Co., Ltd. (President: Kazuhiko Sase, Location: Ishioka City, Ibaraki Prefecture) during FY2015.

*FSSC 22000 is a globally acknowledged benchmark food safety standard established by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) that integrates the international food safety management system standard ISO 22000 with the ISO/TS 22002-4 standard, which is an extension of it. It incorporates requirements for food defense etc., for which interest is recently increasing, and promises higher-level standards of food safety management.

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Company NameLocation

Registration

Date

Production Item

Registration

Number

Soka Paper-Pak

Co., Ltd

5-1-19 Matsue,

Soka-shi, Saitama

March 13,

2015

NP-PAK carton JQA-FC0067

Egawa Paper-Pak

Co., Ltd

2572 Egawa,

Gokamachi,

Sashima-gun, Ibaraki

March 27,

2015

NP-PAK carton

NS-FUJI packing

JQA-FC0069

Audit registration organization: Japan Quality Assurance Organization (JQA)

Separate sheet: FSSC 22000 Management System Certificates (Separate sheet)