About SQF - Safe Quality Food

The SQF (Safe Quality Food) Institute is a division of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), established to administer the SQF Program, a leading, global food safety and quality certification and management system. The Program provides independent certification that a supplier's food safety and quality management system complies with international and domestic food safety regulations. This enables suppliers to assure their customers that food has been produced, processed, prepared and handled according to the highest possible standards, at all levels of the supply chain

Who is it relevant to?

The SQF Program is the only GFSI recognized standard that can offer a seamless farm to fork food safety and quality certification solution by providing supply chain management for both primary production (SQF 1000) and food manufacturing and distribution (SQF 2000).

Benefits of Certification

SQF is a globally trusted and accepted food safety and quality program. However, it is the only such program, recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), that is headquartered outside of Europe. SQF provides a comprehensive service to the North American food industry. At the same time, buyers and suppliers from all over the world, including Australia, Asia, Europe and Africa have benefitted from adopting a program that is truly global in nature

• Implementation and certification to the level required by you and your customer
• Internal resource optimization
• Hazard analysis to evaluate threats to food safety
• Risk analysis to evaluate threats to quality
• Better planning, less post process verification
• Improved documentation
• The ability to reduce the number and frequency of inconsistent and costly audits
• Systematic management of prerequisite programs
• The ability to demonstrate "due diligence" and compliance with regulatory and product traceability requirements
• Dynamic communication on food safety issues with suppliers, customers, regulators and other interested parties
• A systematic and proactive approach to identification of food safety hazards and development and implementation of control measure

Training on SQF

Kelmac Group offer training courses on SQF covering:

• Implementing SQF 1000/2000 Training (2 days)
• Tailored/Incompany Training

Full course information available by clicking here

For more information and/or a competitive quotation on any training solution, please do not hesitate to contact us.