Having a third party audit helps your company meet your customers requirements and expand your market. We perform third party audits to verify your food safety and quality system against regulatory requirements and industry practices through document/records review and on-site observations. Evaluations are conducted by trained and experienced auditors with extensive knowledge of the food industry, to provide an objective overview of your food safety programs. The 3rd party audits provide food manufacturers, distribution centers and food packaging facilities with an independent unbiased review of conformance, and areas for improvement.

• Offer third party independent audits to meet your customers requirements
• Provide HACCP and food safety management system audits (GMP & HACCP)
• Conduct Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) audits
• Verify your programs to ensure the compliance of appropriate standards and regulations 

UFSG helps manufacturers, retailers and food service companies conduct food safety supplier audits to evaluate the effectiveness of the supplier food safety management systems. We can conduct supplier audits to support your supplier approval program and/or to monitor your supplier performance on an on-going basis by performing the following activities:

• Conducting supplier audits to assist in selecting and approval of your new suppliers
• Ensuring the suppliers compliance with your company and regulatory requirements
• Conducting on-onsite audits of your foreign supplier to identify and document hazards and controls measures in your Preventive Control Plan (PCP) associated with the food to be imported meeting the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR) requirements
• Providing an periodic independent audit to monitor your supplier performance
• Reviewing and following up with supplier audit corrective action plan
• Conducting investigation of supplier food safety and quality related complaints
• Assisting in development and continuous improvement of supplier food safety programs 

Internal auditing is a key component of any food safety and quality management system, such as SQF and BRC. The GFSI recognized schemes and regulatory agencies require that companies must verify the effective application of their food safety management system, and the implementation of the requirements of the food safety standards. We provide independent internal audits to help your facility meet global food safety standard requirements, and ensure continuous improvement within a company by performing the following internal audits activities:

• Determine scope and frequency of internal audits in relation to the risks of your process
• Schedule and conduct internal audits to verify the effectiveness of your food safety and quality system, include facility and equipment inspections, prerequisite programs and HACCP plans
• Conduct a pre-assessment audit to assist in identifying gaps in your existing food safety system against the SQF, BRC, FSSC 22000 standards
• Follow up with corrective actions of deficiencies identified during the internal audits
• Perform food safety and quality inspections for restaurants and food service operations 

To support your food safety policy and program requirements, we can work with your company to customize an effective auditing program that reflects your expectations, to evaluate the effectives of your internal food safety management systems was well as those vendors and suppliers who provide ingredients and food products to your company.

Audits and inspections are conducted by specially trained, experienced certified auditors with extensive knowledge in the food industry and food service sectors. To learn more about our auditing services, or to develop customized audit criteria, please contact us.