When maintaining a food safety management system, SQF practitioners are responsible for continuous improvement. They know that Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) are quality management tools that drive continuous improvement and improve SQF Audit Scores. When deviations from SQF requirements are identified, a systematic process must be followed to determine…
What is TRIZ? TRIZ is a continuous improvement and quality management tool, designed to help organizations learn from past incidents and preventively address potential issues. TRIZ stands for "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving" (translated from Russian). It's a problem-solving methodology developed and made popular in the 1950’s by Russian scientist Genrich Altshuller who studied 200,000…
This year’s SQF Unites Conference was held in New Orleans. Over 600 participants gathered to learn and connect with colleagues and industry experts. The conference agenda included discussions about SQF Edition 10. The SQF Town Hall event discussed the launch of CMX1, the new SQF Assessment database platform and a new credential for SQF practitioners.…
In the past 10 years, the Safe Quality Food (SQF) certification has grown significantly to include many small food manufacturers, food packaging manufacturers, storage and distribution providers and now pet food and animal food businesses. According to market analysts, this trend is destined for further growth. Linkedin Pulse predicts that the food certification market will…
If your food business or warehouse already follows good manufacturing and good distribution practices, now is the time to upgrade to an SQF certification which will enable you to export and to do business with large customers and retail chains. Safe Quality Food (SQF) is an accredited, internally-recognized food safety certification which is benchmarked to…
It’s been over a year since the SQF code edition 9 was published and implemented. The SQF Professional update for 2022 Q2 provides some insights on food safety compliance for certified sites. Audit Findings SQFI reported that over 7,500 audits were conducted worldwide in 2021. The average audit score reached 94.30/100, a “G-good” audit score…
SQF Version 9.0 SOP Templates - Full Bundle Create or Update your SQF 9.0 Manual with these Detailed Templates! SQF Bundle 9 has been updated to reflect the recent SQFI FSMA addendum. SQF Bundle 9 has also been significantly expanded and now has 125 documents! New additions include a Get Started Guide, GMP (Good Manufacturing…
This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the SQF Institute will be hosting its annual SQF Conference online. The food safety event which will be held from October 27 to 29, 2020, will be able to reach SQF practitioners in 40 countries. This is a great opportunity for students to participate (a ticket costs 99…
What is CAPA? In order to understand the usefulness of CAPA, we must first introduce the PDCA cycle. The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle is a four-step quality management process that was introduced by Dr. W. Edwards Deming in 1950. A graphical representation of the Deming wheel is represented below. This model is commonly used by project…
NEWS UPDATE: * Edition 8.0 Audits will continue to be in effect until September 30, 2019. ** From October 01 on, audits will be conducted under the SQF Code, Edition 8.1 Learn more at sqfi.com SQF Institute Professional Update SQFI just announced in their July newsletter that the SQF Food Safety Code Manufacturing version 8.1…