What Are the Objectives of IFS PACsecure?

The objectives of IFS PACsecure are as follows:

• Establish food safety for packaging materials.
• Create a common standard with a single type of audit system.
• Deliver audits through accredited certification bodies and qualified IFS-approved auditors.
• Provide comparability and transparency across the full supply chain.
• Reduce cost and time for manufacturers and retailers.
• Align with GFSI requirements.

Why These Objectives Matter

A common audit standard cuts the number of customer audits a packaging supplier handles per year, and the supporting comparability across the supply chain supports procurement decisions by brand-owners and retailers. Accredited audit delivery supports the credibility of the resulting certificate.

GFSI Recognition

GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative) recognition means that an IFS PACsecure certificate is accepted in place of many individual customer packaging audits, which reduces duplicated effort and cost across the chain.

What the Standard Covers

To meet these objectives, IFS PACsecure sets requirements around senior-management responsibility, product development, HACCP for packaging, operational hygiene, and continual improvement. Certification reflects a working system, not a paper exercise.

Certification Support

Sistem Patent Kalite supports packaging operators in mapping their current system against these objectives and closing the gaps needed for certification.