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Food Safety Audits
& Auditor Training
RQA excels in delivering comprehensive food safety and supplier audits, and industry-specific internal and supplier auditor training programmes to businesses across diverse sectors, leveraging our team’s expertise in various industries. On this page learn more about our:
- Food Safety & Supplier Audits
- Food Hygiene Audits
- Auditor Training
- Specialist Audits
We understand the critical role that food safety plays in the food industry, and our goal is to help businesses maintain the highest standards of food safety through thorough audits and effective training programs.
Food Safety Audits
If you don’t have the time or resource to perform your own internal or supplier audits, we can provide businesses with an independent and objective assessment of their processes, procedures, and compliance with food safety regulations and standards. Our auditors work closely with your team to identify any gaps or areas of non-compliance, helping you proactively address issues and continuously improve your food safety practices. Ultimately, by conducting comprehensive audits, we help you make informed decisions regarding your sites to minimise risks and safeguard your brand reputation.
Audits from RQA are:
- Tailored to your exact needs
- Delivered by expert auditors who understand your business
- Include clear and actionable corrective actions
Food Supplier Audit
Food Supplier Audits evaluate the practices and processes of your suppliers to assess their compliance with food safety standards and regulations.
By conducting comprehensive supplier audits, we help you make informed decisions regarding your suppliers, minimise risks, and safeguard your brand reputation.
Food Hygiene Audits
Our Food Hygiene Audits are designed to assess and evaluate the hygiene practices and standards in food service establishments. Our experienced auditors conduct thorough inspections to ensure that proper hygiene protocols are followed, including cleanliness, sanitation, and safe food handling practices.
Food Allergen Audits & Foreign Body Assessments
We also offer specialist food auditing services, including Food Allergen Audits and Foreign Body Assessments.
Food Allergen Audits focus on assessing the effectiveness of allergen control measures in your facility, including ingredient handling, labelling accuracy, cross-contamination prevention, and staff training.
Our expert team can also carry out Foreign Body Assessments to identify any potential risks and provide a strategy to ensure you and your customers are protected against any foreign body contamination.
Food Safety Auditor Training
Our Food Safety Auditor Training programmes are designed to equip delegates with the necessary knowledge, skills, and competencies to conduct thorough and reliable internal or supplier audits.
Our training courses, which can be customised to suit the requirements of BRC, IFS, SQF or other GFSI audit programmes, cover:
- Audit planning & preparation
- Audit performance & auditing techniques
- Audit reports
- Corrective actions
We can also include live practical audits of your company’s quality system to enable the delegates to practice auditing with feedback from the RQA trainer
By investing in auditor training, you can enhance the capabilities of your audit team and strengthen your overall food safety management system.
Not sure what service you need?
If you’re unsure what you need to be fully compliant or can’t see a service
you’re looking for, get in touch with our friendly team of experts.
“De’Longhi Group has been working with RQA for several years now, always finding it very beneficial to the company, teams and people. High professionalism, prompt and competent interventions, have provided great benefits and contributions to continuous improvement of our processes, the strengthening of a preventive approach to potential crisis, and effective training. A very successful cooperation indeed!”
Lorenzo Paglierani,
Group Product Safety & Liability Director, Delonghi Group
“I would like to thank RQA for the amazing job! The crisis simulation went very well and the observations provided in the report were extremely insightful.”
Francesco Giliotti,
Legal Vice President, Group DPO, Group Crisis Team Coordinator
Barilla S.p.A.
Other relevant services
Whether you need to create a product recall plan from scratch or would like us to review your existing plans, RQA can help.
How can we help?
We have specialist skills in a variety of sector and industries, contact us to see how we can help you.