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Charting the Course to SQF Success: 7 Essential Steps to Certification

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Certification Fast-Track! Our clients save weeks, even months, when becoming certified. We teach them the why and the how. Trust the experts and book a free consultation.

Training provided on demand & document templates written by a seasoned food safety consultant with over 30 years of experience. The Sirocco team holds the highest credentials (Master of Food Science, SQF certification)

Affordable and quick SQF and HACCP implementation. Save money with affordable courses and compliance documents (HACCP, SQF, Canadian PCP plans, FSVP, Preventive Controls for Human Food Plans).

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The SQF Certification Roadmap

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SQF Gap Assessments

All SQF certification projects generally start with a gap assessment or internal audit – one to two days – to determine the business needs and SQF code implementation timeline. The goal of the evaluation is to:

Identify food safety risks on site (compliance with GMP).
Evaluate the documented food safety management program.
Identify the completeness of food safety records.
Confirm the regulatory scope of the facility and corresponding documentation
Assess the “gaps” or the missing elements that are required for SQF certification.
Review and discuss training needs with the team and management.

Interested in a free Zoom consultation with our consultant Karine Lawrence? Email us.

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How Sirocco Can Help after the internal Audit or Gap Assessment

Sirocco Consulting Inc. can provide a quotation to develop your SQF manual and assist with training and full implementation.
Alternatively, you can purchase our SQF template bundle and implement SQF directly yourself guidance from our team.
SQF certification can be achieved quickly if your facility is already HACCP certified. Our clients give themselves 6 to 9 months to get audit ready.
Our team develops food fraud vulnerability assessments, food safety plans (HACCP, Import plans (Canadian PCPs, FSVP) and Manufacturing plans (FDA Preventive Controls for Human Food plans, Canadian PCP Plans).
We provide PCQI, Internal Audit and HACCP training. Check our list of courses for details.
Our clients from Texas achieved SQF certification within 6 months. Read our case study here. They are now transitioning to SQF 10 Quality & Food Safety certification with our help.

Next Steps

Are you committed to achieving SQF within 6-9 months?

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Do you need the help of our SQF and regulatory experts on site?

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Interested in a do-it-yourself option?

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What Clients Are Saying

We would like to express our sincere appreciation for the outstanding support provided during our SQF preparation and implementation process. Your guidance was practical, clear, and aligned with regulatory expectations, which made a significant difference in our development of the processes.

You were consistently professional, very knowledgeable, and exceptionally responsive. Questions were addressed quickly and thoroughly, often accompanied by helpful examples, forms, and templates that we could immediately apply within our system. This level of support streamlined our efforts and ensured we stayed on track.

Although we have not yet completed our certification, we are confident that, with the foundation you helped us establish, we will successfully achieve certification without difficulty.

We are very pleased with your expertise and commitment, and we highly recommend your services to any organization seeking reliable and effective SQF consulting support.

Sigal Pashinski

VP of Compliance and Regulatory Affairs - Nelipak (San Francisco)

I just wanted to take a moment to thank you Karine Lawrence for the excellent PCQI V2 course you taught. I truly appreciated how detailed and thorough you were in your explanations. You took the time to ensure I understood the concepts, and I learned a great deal from you.

Your patience and the way you clarified each point made the training very effective. I feel much more confident now, and I know I will be able to apply the knowledge and skills I gained in my career moving forward.

I’m very grateful for the time and effort you spent with me. Thank you again for such a valuable learning experience.

Prakshi P.

Quality Assurance Services, Primo Brands.

It was a pleasure working with Karine throughout the process of getting our first SQF certification completed on a deadline. Having no in-house experience in the process of setting up a proper SQF level system and being audited, the resources and expertise that Karine was able to offer us was irreplaceable. The SQF templates were instrumental in getting our internal paperwork organized in time and the onsite consulting ensured that our facility passed with flying colours. She gave us much-needed confidence during a very stressful process.

Keith Seidel

Director of Operations/co-founder

Distillers Way

Karine was the best part of this [SQF] course. It is clear that she is an authority in many processes based on the examples provided. I like that Karine went into detail and spoke of her own experiences. I really enjoyed how she kept everyone engaged.

participant feedback obtained from a SQF course taught for Eurofins

We had the privilege of working with Karine at Sirocco Food + Wine Consulting for a gap assessment of our facility to SQF standards. Karine demonstrated exceptional expertise, provided a very thorough and insightful analysis, and really went above and beyond to take the time to clearly explain each requirement and provide suggestions. She developed a comprehensive, actionable report despite a tight timeline, and would highly recommend her services to any organization.

MG, Food Scientist

I have had the pleasure of working with Karine for over a year now. She helped our company pass our first SQF audit Ed. 8.1 with a score of 94. For our recertification audit, which was on SQF Ed. 9.0, Karine visited our site and performed a gap assessment. She was able to identify a lot of areas for improvement and with her help our company passed the audit and achieved a score of 96. Karine is really knowledgeable on SQF. She is easy to work with and extremely helpful.

Issa Hashim

QA Specialist/SQF Practitioner

Blue Ocean Teaz & Herbalz Inc.

We successfully passed our initial HACCP certification audit, without a single finding! While this seemed quite surprising, I then realized that this was due to the thorough gap assessment provided by Sean Xia at Sirocco Consulting, along with additional documentation support.

Sean inspected our facility and dug through all of our systems and records in such detail as to be able to expose all of our issues. We were then provided with our initial HACCP plan and a set of GMP documentation that we were able to edit and integrate with our existing documentation. But these documents were not just provided to us, they were each individually reviewed in a handover that provided further insights. And Sean also made himself available for future questions – such amazing support!

As we proceeded to work through implementation of the new GMP’s and to address all items in the gap assessment, I felt quite confident – albeit a bit trepidatious – about the pending audit. However, on the audit date, things went so much more smoothly than I ever could have imagined.

Thank you, Sirocco!

Sean

My company needed to create a more robust Preventative Control Plan than what we had, and I am so thankful to have found Sirocco Food + Wine Consulting. Their templates were just what I needed, and Karine and Sean were readily available to answer my questions and provide guidance when necessary. Karine and her team are highly competent, knowledgeable, friendly, and prompt to respond with help. I can’t recommend them enough!

Craig Stuart

Oceanside Brands

Karine is such a wonderful teacher. As a student for the PCQI hybrid course I learned a lot from the virtual course but was left with a lot of questions. I was looking forward to the instructor-led course to get some more practice and answers to my questions. Karine was clear and thorough in her explanations. Her consulting business experience gave her a plethora of examples to draw from. I was impressed by her ability to address my questions and give me resources to continue my study. She is very well versed in the regulations required and is up to date on any changes or new publications that may influence your business. She was very accommodating to my needs. I highly recommend taking a class from Karine. She is an expert in her field. I left the class feeling confident in my ability to act as a PCQI and make a positive impact on my company.

Annalisa Broadhead

Graduate Student

Utah State University

I have been very pleased and satisfied with the SQF Bundle edition 9 developed by Karine Lawrence from Sirocco Food + Wine Consulting.
All procedures (templates) are professionally and beautifully written, saved us a tremendous amount of time, and enabled us to achieve our goal of gaining an excellent score in the audit.
Karine is very knowledgeable, and it has been a pleasure working with her. I highly recommend the SQF Bundle and her consulting services.

Shahrzad Shahvand

Quality Systems Manager

California Packaging Centers

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