7.Accreditation process

7.1Accreditation criteria and information

7.2Application for accreditation

GFSI Requirements to clause 7.2.1

GFSI Requirements to clause 7.2.3

7.3Resource review

7.4Subcontracting the assessment

GFSI Requirements to clause 7.4.1

7.5Preparation for assessment

GFSI Requirements to clause 7.5.6

GFSI Requirements to clause 7.5.8

GFSI Requirements to clause 7.5.10

7.6Document and record review

GFSI Requirements to clause 7.6.1

7.7On-site assessment

GFSI Requirements to clause 7.7.2

GFSI Requirements to clause 7.7.3

7.8Analysis of findings and assessment report

7.9Decision making and granting accreditation

GFSI Requirements to clause 7.9.3 GFSI Requirements to clause 7.9.5

7.10.Appeals

7.11.Reassessment and surveillance

GFSI Requirements to clause 7.11.3 GFSI Requirements to clause 7.11.5 GFSI Requirements to clause 7.11.6 GFSI Requirements to clause 7.11.7

7.12Extending accreditation

GFSI Requirements to clause 7.12

7.13Suspending, withdrawing or reducing accreditation

GFSI Requirements to clause 7.13.2 GFSI Requirements to clause 7.13.3

7.14Records on CAB’s

7.15Proficiency testing and other comparisons for laboratories