Food Safety Audits
Food Safety Audits
Food Safety Audits are the core of our business. Unfortunately and usually we are called only after a Food Safety incident has already started. Some customers do prefer to be pro-active and have us come in and hopefully confirm that they have control of their Food Safety risk or ask us to find any Food Safety Risks on THEIR time rather than on CFIA’s time.
This is a list of what can be included during an on-site Food Safety Audit.
- We - Will confirm as a 3rd-party Food Safety consultant that all your current food safety programs and related potential risk is actually being controlled.
- We help you minimize mandated Regulatory Intervention, find and eliminate the risk and get your plant and production back up and running ASAP from Recall, Product Loss event, or poor test results.
- Identifying employee Good Manufacturing Practices issues in all departments
- Evaluating the sanitation program after processing and operational sanitation happening during production
- Identifying issues with sanitary design of equipment and the facility
- Evaluating the microbial monitoring (all zones) program for effectiveness
- We can review and advise you on “Recall Team Management”, Regulatory Impact reduction and Traceability.
- Looking for bacterial harbourage, niches and bio-films throughout the facility
- We can get quick feedback on most situations coming from CFIA and HC in Ottawa and often USDA & FDA.
- We Evaluate Shelf-Life stability Issues and work together to troubleshoot and resolve what is affecting your shelf life results. We can also advise you on how to increase your current shelf life results.
- We do Training: Lots & lots of training (dozens of typical titles available) on Site-specific custom-Training ranging from Food Safety for Maintenance to Rework Control, Bacteria Harborage, to full sanitation and in-process sanitizing. And many more. Training Videos are also very popular and available to make on site and custom to your operation.
- We do PCP (HACCP) Systems Review to meet current regulatory requirements and minimize regulatory stumble-ons. Specifically ensuring your programs does not over commit you to scrutiny.
- We do GFSI – BRC & SQF program review & implementation, certification audit preparation, internal audits, audit assistance, and help in the implementation of programs both on the floor in the plant, and paper control.
- We do Food Safety Audits – In House and on all shifts and departments including sanitation, set-up, Pre-Op, & start-up.