Getting Started with SQF

Protect your brand, ensure regulatory compliance, and reduce the risk of recalls with expert guidance from SFPM Consulting. Learn why food safety consulting is essential for your business.

Learn how to conduct a pre-op inspection in food manufacturing. Ensure food safety and quality with our step-by-step guide and downloadable pre-op checklist. This comprehensive tool covers everything from exterior inspections to employee hygiene, helping you streamline compliance and maintain top-notch food safety standards.

Discover the importance of validation in food safety, examples, and how SFPM Consulting aids in designing in-house research and teach HACCP training for effective validation procedures.

Discover the essential insights gleaned from the 2024 SQF Unites Conference, where food manufacturers delved into AI integration, change management, certification strategies, continuous improvement, and the nuances of food fraud risks.

Welcome to the world of SQF certification! If you’re new to the world of food safety and looking to obtain SQF certification, you’ve come to the right place. In this blog post, we’ll guide you through the process of obtaining SQF certification from scratch with the help of SFPM Consulting and Felicia Loo, a registered

Ensure food safety and quality with confidence! Discover the essential tips and strategies to ace your next food internal audit. Overcome fears and misconceptions, and drive continuous improvement in your food safety practices.

Are you seeking for SQF certification but worry about the challenges of managing the SQF requirements within your team? In fact, if you know the right way, SQF certification can be easy. Hear from Felicia Loo, Registered SQF Consultant on how we can manage SQF standard expectation easily.

Download these free SQF tips sheets from SQFI. Need more guidance to pass your SQF audit. We have a system that helps our client manage audit expectation timeline. Learn how we can expedite your SQF certification process.

Achieving SQF certification requires a strong team, and one critical member is the SQF practitioner. Learn about the importance of selecting an experienced practitioner and how they can help you achieve certification success.

Are you interested in achieving food certification quickly? If so, you’ll want to check out our Food Safety Template. Our helpful resource can help you save time and get your certification done correctly.

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are a key part of any organization’s operation. Writing an SOP from scratch can be challenging as it takes time and creates writer blues. SFPM provides food safety template and program development service so you don’t have to go through the headache of writing your own

There are many benefits of setting food safety objectives for food businesses. However, knowing what to set for your SQF food safety objectives or HACCP food safety objectives can be challenging. In this article, we review the benefit of setting food safety objectives and how to use data to trend for the effectiveness.

Food product development is a process that starts with the ideation, followed by formulation and testing, and finally marketing and distribution. In this article, we discuss nine tips to ensure that your food product development process is effective

We rely heavily on the HACCP framework as the fundamental framework to identify, manage, and mitigate food safety risks in the food industry. HACCP has been referred to as the fundamental framework for food safety regulatory and preventive control development for the United States Food Safety and Modernization Act and the framework for preventive control

The use of the Maintenance program in the HACCP system is to ensure equipment is properly maintained to produce safe food products. These include minimizing the possibility of contamination, identifying and correcting potential problems, and establishing a preventive maintenance plan.

Welcome to another strategy session. Today, we will be reviewing the smart solutions that we create to reduce training time and focus on what matters the most, whether the trainee understood and implement the activities competently. One-to-one training is old school! It is great for building connections. However, it takes lots of time and it

Kept hearing about food safety certification but am not sure how or which GFSI scheme you are looking to get certified. Here is a quick guide on why you want to get started even though you are not immediately going for SQF certification, FSSC 22000 certification or BRC certification.

This article discusses how to manage obsolete food labels to prevent mislabelling, which may lead to food withdrawal or recall and food brand damage.

We’ve got lots of questions on how to set food safety objectives for SQF and food safety management systems. This blog shares quick guidance on setting food safety objectives -how to choose, get resources and stay accountable for your food safety objectives.

If you obtain a score below 70%, you are deemed to failed an SQF audit. This includes having a critical non-conformances. We understand this is a stressful fact. The focus should be on getting them corrected. Know what to do and how to prevent this from recurring

What is SQF certification? The Safe Quality Certification is a globally recognized food safety management system, that is a part of the GFSI recognized programs. The SQF scheme is developed and maintained by the SQF Institute. Read more about what is SQF program on the SQF website. – Why do you need SQF certificate? -Who

SFPM Food Safety Consultant can save you time, effort, prevent costly decisions and guide your team towards your business certification requirements

Introduction to Validation and Verification as GFSI requirements A food safety plan will not be complete without monitoring, verification and validation activities. That is exactly why food safety manuals are usually thick. A complete food safety plan includes hazard identification and plans to control identified hazards along with monitoring, verification, validation and record-keeping activities. Today,

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

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.

Comply with SFCR 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

This blog covers 5 tips to meet SQF 9.0 requirements recently in effect from May 2021. These include your questions on SQF practitioners, SQF score changes, label reconciliation, corrective actions and preventative actions and food safety culture. Don’t forget to download our free SQF template.

The SQF Meaning, Codes, & Requirements SQF meaning (Safe Quality Food): A global food safety initiative (GFSI) program that evaluated food safety based on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP). SQFI has recently published SQF code version 9.0. The expected compliance date for SQF code 9.0 would be in May 2021. You may download the

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.

Getting started with an SQF Certification doesn’t need to be scary. Our SQF consultant can help support and navigate you through the process. Once you are certified, our monthly support program helps you to be audit-ready. Inquire about our SQF consulting services today.