For anyone with an IL Food Service Sanitation Manager certificate, please note: As of January 1, 2018, with the IL FSSMC being eliminated, we defer to the FDA Code which requires an ANSI accredited Certified Food Protection Manager (CFPM) certification to be in compliance. So, any staff persons that renewed the “old way” before July 2014 who never took a national CFPM exam, should work towards getting one because the IL FSSMC alone will not meet the requirements of the food code come January 1st.