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Exciting News: We’ve Hit the Jackpot! Before diving into the celebration, let’s discuss what BRC means! BRC stands for the British Retail Consortium, which created the BRC Global Standards to ensure food safety and quality. These standards, introduced in 1998, are vital for food manufacturers, providing a comprehensive framework for managing product safety, legality, and quality. Achieving BRC certification involves rigorous audits that assess over 300 criteria related to food safety management, personnel hygiene, and process control. It’s a badge of honour that boosts consumer confidence and ensures compliance with legal standards. After an intense three-day audit that felt like a test of our mettle, our amazing team at Sipology didn’t just meet the challenge; they crushed it! I can hardly believe how far we’ve come as a manufacturer. It seems like just yesterday, I was in my basement, hand-filling tea bags! 😅 Now, that initial pride has blossomed into something even bigger. We’re celebrating our THIRD annual audit result: AA! For those who aren’t BRCGS aficionados, this is the highest rating you can achieve on an announced audit. This remarkable milestone was made possible by our team rallying together with a single focus: achieving excellence in manufacturing and ensuring impeccable food safety. A huge shout-out to the all-stars on our production floor and in quality control! 🙌 You all knocked it out of the park, and I’m incredibly grateful for every one of you! 💕 So, keep your eyes peeled—there are plenty more AA’s in our future! 🥳 #manufacturing #qualityassurance #AA #teamwork #excellence

Exciting News: We’ve Hit the Jackpot! Before diving into the celebration, let’s discuss what BRC means! BRC stands for the British Retail Consortium, which created the BRC Global Standards to ensure food safety and quality. These standards, introduced in 1998, are vital for food manufacturers, providing a comprehensive framework for managing product safety, legality, and quality. Achieving BRC certification involves rigorous audits that assess over 300 criteria related to food safety management, personnel hygiene, and process control. It’s a badge of honour that boosts consumer confidence and ensures compliance with legal standards. After an intense three-day audit that felt like a test of our mettle, our amazing team didn’t just meet the challenge; we crushed it! I can hardly believe how far we’ve come as a manufacturer. It seems like just yesterday I was in my basement, hand-filling tea bags! 😅 Now, that initial pride has blossomed into something even bigger. We’re celebrating our THIRD annual audit result: AA! For those who aren’t BRCGS aficionados, this is the highest rating you can achieve on an announced audit. This remarkable milestone was made possible by our entire team rallying together with a single focus: achieving excellence in manufacturing and ensuring impeccable food safety. A huge shout-out to the all-stars on our production floor and in quality control! 🙌 You all knocked it out of the park, and I’m incredibly grateful for every one of you! 💕 So, keep your eyes peeled—there are plenty more AA’s in our future! 🥳 #manufacturing #qualityassurance #AA #teamwork #excellence

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Our team is comprised of Information Technologists and those who have a combined 40 years of experience in the food and beverage industry. We have the background and experience to develop a tool we know you already need. #FoodIndustry #Compliance #FoodSafety #Regulations #BusinessGrowth #FoodRegulation #IndustryStandards #BrandTrust #FSMA #EUFoodLaw #ContinuousLearning

Our team is comprised of Information Technologists and those who have a combined 40 years of experience in the food and beverage industry. We have the background and experience to develop a tool we know you already need. #FoodIndustry #Compliance #FoodSafety #Regulations #BusinessGrowth #FoodRegulation #IndustryStandards #BrandTrust #FSMA #EUFoodLaw #ContinuousLearning

"Cheers Connections" I’m thrilled to share I have successfully completed the 'FSSC 22000 V 6.0' Lead Auditor certification. "LOT MORE TO COME"🎯 🚀 The most valuable lessons from this program: 1. Improves the quality of food and food packaging products. 2. Improves food safety processes by reducing hazard and incident risk. 3. Optimises resources resulting in reduced costs. 4. Helps prove food products and services are safe, high quality, and reliable. 5. Builds trust in the supply chain.

Regaining and maintaining the integrity and respect for the Food Safety and Quality Assurance #FSQA profession: 👉 Celebrations of achieved #certifications may keep some food business operators enchanted for some time while their resources get siphoned away by schemers. 👉 Futile food safety pursuits add significant cost to food business operations without getting them anywhere in ensuring safer food. 👉 How should you be advising your food business employers or clients to prevent the wasting of their resources? 👉 How can you provide real #VEEE (Value, Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Efficiency) that they cannot ignore? Let's connect to further explore these matters: #SSQA_Academy #SSQA #VEEE #SSQA_NODE #SSQA_vision

A significant milestone optimistically in my career has been reached with the acquisition through my BRCGS Lead Auditor Issue 9 certification. This certification not only increases my proficiency in inspections, but it also gives me keen information and abilities in widely accepted standards for food safety and quality compliance. #foodsafety #foodquality #leadauditor #Qualityassurance #BRCGS #Foodindustry #BRC #BRCIsssue9 #foodsector #Globalstandard

Boost your food business by obtaining the ISO 22000: 2018 Food Management System certification from the National Certification Body of Jamaica. Call us today to learn more about the process and how it can benefit your business. #NCBJ #ISO22000 #FoodSafetyManagementSystem #Certification

Recently, I had a conversation with one of our senior advisors about a client's food safety program gaps that were deeply entwined with their company culture. Unfortunately recent allergen-related recalls have placed undue blame on the FSQ team. Though we witnessed operators falsifying records, it was still very evident that our client faced a fundamental culture issue of high turnover rate that requires intervention in order to solve everything else. While the Safe Food En Route, LLC team will do our best to address FSQ training and rewriting programs as needed, our client MUST take action to solve their culture issues which can take years of commitment. Company culture is much more than kudos and occasional pizza parties. We find these situations more and more in small to mid sized companies that scale fast and do not have appropriate training and resources at each phase of growth. This is where the Private Equity and Aquisition market can help to get teams operating at as a higher functioning team while they are scaling. It will make us all successful collectively and hopefully save some lives from unnecessary food safety incidents. #FoodSafety #CompanyCulture #FoodSafetyCulture #PrivateEquity #ItTakesaVillage