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What is a Food Safety Plan?
A comprehensive Food Safety Plan is essential for establishing a proactive and scientifically grounded approach to ensuring consumer health and regulatory compliance. It serves as the foundation of your food safety management system, systematically identifying potential hazards, biological, chemical, and physical, and implementing critical control measures at specific points in your production process.
An effective Food Safety Plan not only minimizes risks of contamination, illnesses, and recalls but also provides a clear framework for ongoing monitoring, verification, and continual improvement. Developing and maintaining a robust Food Safety Plan demonstrates your commitment to safety, supports regulatory inspections, and helps build trust with consumers, customers, and stakeholders.
Why Choose Our Food Safety Plan Services?
Reach out to us today to get a tailored Food Safety Plan developed or refined for your facility. We specialize in aligning your system with USDA, FDA, and GFSI-recognized standards, providing scientifically validated hazard analyses, control strategies, and comprehensive documentation.
Our team will work closely with you to identify hazards, establish effective control measures, and create detailed monitoring and verification protocols. With our support, your facility will be audit-ready, compliant, and well-positioned to maintain high safety standards, protecting your brand, your products, and your consumers.
Hazard Analysis & Control Strategies
Conducting a thorough assessment to identify biological, chemical, and physical hazards throughout your production process. Based on this analysis, control measures are established at critical points, such as cooking, cooling, and sanitation, to prevent, reduce, or eliminate hazards, ensuring product safety from raw ingredient to finished product.
Establishing ongoing monitoring and verification protocols to confirm that control measures are functioning as intended over time. Regular sampling, review of records, and validation activities help ensure continuous compliance, quickly identify deviations, and support process improvements.
Verification & Monitoring Systems
A Food Safety Plan is a scientifically based, well-documented system that outlines how your facility identifies, assesses, and controls biological, chemical, and physical hazards that could affect product safety. It covers the hazard analysis process, identification of critical control points (CCPs), and implementation of preventive controls to reduce or eliminate risks.
The plan also includes procedures for monitoring, validation, and verification to ensure controls remain effective and consistent over time. By taking a structured, proactive approach, your Food Safety Plan ensures compliance, enhances safety, builds consumer trust, and supports continuous improvement.
Ready to Build a Stronger Food Safety Program?
Creation
We can create your Food Safety Plan aligned with industry standards, including GFSI-recognized schemes, USDA, and FDA regulatory requirements.
Our tailored solutions provide a strong foundation for compliance, operational efficiency, and industry performance, ensuring your programs are scalable and audit-ready.
Gap Analysis
Our thorough assessments identify weaknesses in your current processes and systems, whether related to GFSI standards, USDA, or FDA regulations.
By pinpointing vulnerabilities early, we enable you to proactively address gaps, strengthen your compliance posture, and prepare effectively for audits or certification processes.
Implementation
Our team supports seamless integration of new or existing programs, ensuring they meet industry standards such as GFSI, USDA, and FDA.
We assist in training staff, establishing procedures, and embedding controls into daily operations—helping you achieve system integrity and regulatory readiness.
Wherever You Are in the Process, We've Got You Covered
Training & Support
We empower your team with customized training programs focused on GFSI, USDA, or FDA compliance requirements.
Our ongoing support ensures your programs are maintained properly, fostering a strong culture of food safety, continuous improvement, and regulatory adherence.
Validation
We confirm that your controls, processes, and systems are effective through science-based validation tailored to GFSI schemes, USDA, or FDA standards.
Our validation services help reduce risks, demonstrate ongoing compliance, and support continuous improvement in your food safety and quality management systems.
Contact us for your free consultation today
Comprehensive Food Safety Plan & Documentation Solutions
At Points North Certified, we provide a comprehensive set of documents designed to help you develop, validate, and maintain an effective Food Safety Plan that complies with industry standards such as USDA, FDA, and GFSI. These documents serve as a structured framework for hazard analysis, control measures, and ongoing verification, ensuring your facility produces safe, high-quality products with confidence and audit readiness.
Our Food Safety Plan Documents
Food Safety Plan
A detailed, scientifically validated document that outlines how your facility systematically manages hazards, implements controls, and verifies their effectiveness to produce safe, high-quality food products. It includes hazard analysis, critical control points, and verification protocols.
Point North 3rd Party Document Validation
An impartial review of your Food Safety Plan and related documentation by our experts to ensure they meet regulatory requirements and industry best practices, providing credibility and supporting audit success.
HACCP Team Composition & Qualifications
Documentation that details your HACCP team’s structure, including team member roles, responsibilities, and qualifications, demonstrating that your team has the expertise necessary to develop and maintain an effective hazard analysis.
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Experienced Industry Experts
Our team brings decades of hands-on validation experience across multiple food sectors, including meat & poultry, baked goods, snack foods, beverages, and more.
Support & Continual Improvement
We provide guidance for ongoing validation activities, re-validation schedules, and performance monitoring to sustain food safety over time.
Detailed and Clear Documentation
Our validation reports and protocols are comprehensive, transparent, and designed to support your internal records, external audits, and regulatory inspections.
Regulatory & Certification-Ready
We tailor validation procedures to meet FDA, USDA, GFSI, and other relevant standards, ensuring your processes are audit-ready and certification compliant.
Our relationship doesn’t end once your programs are created. We offer ongoing support, help monitor performance, and review your systems periodically to identify areas for improvement, ensuring your food safety practices stay current and effective.
Why Partner with Points North Certified?
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