This blog post discuss the basics of food safety culture and tips to embrace positive food safety culture.
Food SafetyStrategy for Food Defense Plan
March 24, 2021by Felicia Loo
Food defense is an intentional effort to protect food from the act of intentional adulteration. Have you heard of * terrorist attack * a dissatisfi...
ConsultationFood SafetySQFBuilding Food Safety Culture
February 13, 2021by Felicia Loo
Food Safety Culture is what you do when no one is watching. In this article, we discuss the importance of leadership and training to build a food safety culture
BusinessOngoing TrainingStart-UpTrainingStart Food Business in Vancouver Right
February 7, 2021by Felicia Loo
Want to know how to start a food business in Vancouver and Burnaby? This webinar capture the business licensing, food safety plan, sanitation plan, food labelling and tips for successful product research and development.
NewsTrainingUpcoming TrainingWebinar: Boost Your Program with Food Safety Grants
February 3, 2021by Felicia Loo
SFPM Consulting and Fair Grant Writing are pleased to invite you to join us in this webinar, where we will discuss expert tips on obtaining food safety grants and food safety compliances for improved profitability.
Ongoing TrainingSpeed Masterclass Training
February 3, 2021by Felicia Loo
Speed Masterclass food safety programs allow our food professionals to learn about a chosen food safety topic within 10-15 minutes presentation and engage participants to discuss and exchange ideas for the topic.
Integrating food safety into your company’s culture is a great way to ensure your employees make the right decisions. SFPM Consulting offers a fully customized food safety culture development session to help you comply with GFSI requirements and improve your return on investment.
TrainingUpcoming TrainingMasterclass SFCR Program Development Training
February 3, 2021by Felicia Loo
This SFCR program development training is designed specifically to food manufacturer that is new to the concept of PCPplan and food safety program but need to comply with the CFIA SFCR requirements.
Design specifically to assist SQF program SOP development and implementation, this SQF training session aims to deliver usable and customized programs, at a fraction of the cost. Learn more inside.
Food Safety2021 Initiatives to Support Food Businesses and Food Professionals
December 31, 2020by Felicia Loo
Congratulations on making it to the end of 2021. Leaping into 2021. We had a challenging 2020. It has been almost a whole year that we have been pivoting with our business priorities, cost and managing expectation for the upcoming months and days. Some of us are directly affected by the pandemic through a layoff...
Food SafetyHow to Manage CFIA or FDA Regulatory Visit?
November 10, 2020by Felicia Loo
Handling Regulatory Visits Regulatory visits can be stressful, especially when it comes to an unannounced audit. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) or US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) is authorized to visit any of its registered and licensed sites without the need to announce the visits, as per the Safe Food for Canadian...
BusinessYour Food Safety and Branding Partner
September 7, 2020by Felicia Loo
SFPM Consulting delivers reliable food safety consulting and coaching services that focus on our client's goals and ROI -your reliable partner in building your food safety and branding.
Food fraud is real. This article discussed direct and indirect ways that food manufacturers and importers are responsible for the product manufactured or sold in Canada. Subsequently, discuss about food fraud plan development to mitigate food fraud risk.
Introduction to Internal Audit Internal audit is the process by which food safety systems are analyzed against the written program to ensure the program is implemented correctly. Internal audit is a required component to meet food safety audit requirements for GFSI recognized certification schemes such as SQF, BRC and FSSC 22000. It is recommended that the internal audits are conducted by another department independent from the audited department. This makes perfect sense as...
BlogFood SafetySQFSQF Consulting
August 30, 2020by Felicia Loo
Learn how SQF consultant and certification can help build your food brand by building customer trust and prevent food recall. SFPM Consulting offers coaching and consulting services to help you maximize your investment and cost savings.
This is a part of the “Building Your Food Business” education series for those who like to start a successful food business with consideration of customer and food safety in mind.
This is a part of the “Building Your Food Business” education series for those who like to start a successful food business with consideration of customer and food safety in mind.
This is a part of the “Building Your Food Business” education series for those who like to start a successful food business with consideration of customer and food safety in mind.
COVID-19 distrupt the food supply chain and increase motivation for food fraud to ensure contracts are filled. Are you ready for food fraud wave?
SFPM Consulting supporting food businesses with free standard operating procedure to comply with reopening business safely.
AdvicesFood SafetyHow to Develop a Food Safety Plan that Control Physical Hazards without Screening Devices such as Metal Detector and X-ray?
July 31, 2020by Felicia Loo
Metal Detector or X-ray is a common processing step for food manufacturing to sort and reject food products that contain physical contamination such as rocks, metal fragments, plastic fragments, glass etc. This processing step works for larger manufacturers who have the space for the machine and the ability to monitor, verify and validate the...
We live in a technological era. There are many food safety software in the market. The question for business owners or food safety program owners would automatically be how do we choose food safety software solutions that meet the user’s needs? Here are a few of my own criteria when choosing...
NewsGet to Know Felicia Loo
July 31, 2020by Felicia Loo
Learn about SFPM Consulting founder, Felicia Loo on her perspective on food safety consulting and how COVID-19 changes the food industry and how we eat.
SFPM Consulting present guidelines, tips and resources for food businesses to apply for Safe Food for Canadian Regulation (SFC) license without fuss.
Food traceability can sometimes be an ambiguous concept to understand. You may recognize the term “contact tracing” that arise from the recent pandemic and COVID-19 situation. What COVID-19 has done is introduce the concept of tracing viruses as it is transmitted from a symptomatic or asymptomatic COVID-19 carrier to another virus-free person. Contact tracing is...
Food SafetySFCRSafe Food for Canadians Act and Regulations are in effect on July 15, 2020 for most business -Are you in compliant?
July 15, 2020by Felicia Loo
Many of you have asked -how do I meet the Safe Food for Canadian Requirements (SFCR) with an existing food safety management system? Indeed, there are a number of food safety documents that we use in our day-to-day operations to ensure compliance with multiple regulatory and voluntary certifications. So, it did makes sense to incorporate the requirements for the...
What do you need in your crisis management for COVID-19? Learn from global food safety guidance comparison for SQF, BRC, FSSC 22000 and IFS.