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Food Safety Audit

A Food Safety Audit is a comprehensive inspection designed to assess your organisation’s adherence to food safety laws, standards, and best practices. Completing a food safety audit demonstrates your business’s commitment to protecting consumers, ensuring product quality, and complying with regulatory requirements – trusted by clients, partners, and regulators across the food industry. With robust food safety management, you reduce the risk of contamination, avoid costly recalls, and build a reputation for safety and excellence. Compliancy Group guides you through every step – making food safety compliance clear, practical, and a genuine business advantage.

Why Choose Compliancy Group?

We understand the complexities of food safety regulations and industry standards. Our team brings hands-on experience with food safety audits, HACCP implementation, and sector-specific compliance requirements.

No one-size-fits-all here. Whether you need an initial audit, HACCP plan development, ongoing monitoring, or compliance advice, our services are fully customised to your operations. We offer flexible support packages—from essential guidance to comprehensive on-site consultancy.

We work exclusively with UKAS-accredited certification bodies and maintain a 100% pass rate for compliance assessments. Our clients trust us to deliver results that stand up to audit and regulatory scrutiny—helping you achieve, maintain, and leverage food safety compliance for business growth.

Compliance shouldn’t slow you down. We help you build safer operations, reduce food safety risks, and improve efficiency—so you can focus on your core business.

You’ll work directly with our expert team, including leadership involvement from our CEO. We pride ourselves on responsive communication, clear guidance, and ongoing support throughout your compliance journey.

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Food Safety Audit Benefits for Your Business

Demonstrate compliance to secure contracts and reassure customers and supply chain partners.

Show your commitment to food safety, quality, and legal responsibilities.

Minimise the risk of contamination, recalls, and costly liabilities.

Enhance your standing as a responsible and trusted food business.

Regular audits and compliance checks foster a culture of ongoing safety and operational excellence.

Unlock New Opportunities

Boost Credibility

Strengthen Reputation

Strengthen Reputation

Drive Continuous Improvement

Benefits of Compliancy Group Services

From initial audit to ongoing support, our team ensures you’re always prepared and confident.

We streamline compliance processes, freeing up your team to focus on core business activities.

Services are tailored to your specific business needs, not generic templates.

Ongoing support, training, and regulatory updates keep your business compliant long after inspection.

Our 100% compliance pass rate and exclusive partnerships with UKAS-accredited bodies mean you’re in safe hands.

Expert Guidance at Every Step

Time & Resource Savings

Customised Solutions

Relevant Certifications & Accreditations

FAQ's - Food Safety Audit

A food safety audit is a systematic, independent, and documented activity in which objective evidence is collected and evaluated to determine if a food safety system is suitable and effective.
The IFS Food Standard reviews the products and production processes to evaluate a food producer's ability to produce safe, authentic, and quality products according to legal requirements and customer specifications. integrity and increasing efficiency.
The four Cs of food safety are cleaning, cooking, chilling, and cross-contamination. These four principles are essential for preventing foodborne illnesses and maintaining food safety standards. They are used to minimize the risk of bacteria and other harmful microorganisms contaminating food
Conduct assessments of food businesses to ascertain their compliance with the requirements of the Food Safety Standards, Submit audit reports prepared in accordance with section 102 of the Food Act to the enforcement agency, with a copy provided to the proprietor of the food business.
Promoting safe food handling •Keep clean. •Separate raw and cooked. •Cook thoroughly. •Keep food at safe temperatures. •Use safe water and raw materials.
BRCGS: Requires a third-party audit by an accredited certification body and is typically more prescriptive in its requirements. ISO 22000: Also requires third-party certification but is more flexible, allowing organizations to tailor their FSMS based on their specific needs and risks.
Tips To Prepare For A Food Safety Audit 1.TRAIN YOUR EMPLOYEES. ... 2.APPOINT SANITATION EXPERTS. ... 3.INSTALL A SLOT DRAIN SYSTEM. ... 4.MONITOR STORAGE TEMPERATURES. ... 5.REVIEW THE FOOD SAFETY STANDARDS. ... 6.CONDUCT A PRE-AUDIT. ... 7.DOCUMENT EVERYTHING. ... 8.PREPARING FOR YOUR AUDIT.
Food Safety Act 1990 The main responsibilities for all food businesses covered by the Act are to ensure that: businesses do not include anything in food, remove anything from food or treat food in any way which means it would be damaging to the health of people eating it.