Food Safety

Build a World-Class Food Safety System with Pilothouse Advisors Programs

Our food safety consultants help companies achieve and sustain their certifications and regulatory obligations. However, a strong food safety cultures go beyond checking the boxes.
Be sure your food safety and quality systems are airtight and scalable as your business grows. We provide custom approaches to the following areas:
• GFSI Certification and Sustainability
• Food Safety Plan Development or Reanalysis
• Internal Auditor Training
• HACCP Plan Development or Reassessment
• HACCP Training & HACCP Certification
• Regulatory Enforcement Response Assistance
• FSMA Compliance Assessment

FOOD SAFETY ASSURANCE PROGRAMS

Our services consist of helping clients assure that their food safety plans and programs, including allergen, sanitation, supply chain and food recall plans, are compliant with all federal, state and local rules and regulations. We can also assist food manufacturers with obtaining Organic, Non-GMO, and Fair Trade Certifications. We are your trusted advisor in getting approvals from the USDA, as well as from state-level Agriculture Departments, local Health Departments, and help obtain SQF, and FSSC 22000 certifications, our consultants are PCQI, USDA HACCP, FDA Seafood HACCP, and retail HACCP certified.

Let Pilothouse Advisors HACCP certified advisors deal directly with regulators on behalf of our clients to assure that your food safety programs meet the requirements, we can assist you with:
• FSMA-compliant Preventive Controls Plans for Food Manufacturers, Food Processors, Farms, and Food Distributors
• FDA-compliant Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP) for Food Importers
• USDA-compliant HACCP Plans for Meat processors and Butcher Shops
• GFSI-benchmarked programs such as SQF, BRC, FSSC 22000, PrimusGFS and Safe Feed/Safe Food
• Retail HACCP Plans for Restaurants and Food Service companies.

Pilothouse Advisor’s Food Safety Specialty division focuses on the food supply chain areas of:
WHOLESALE SUPPLY CHAIN

• Food Manufacturers
• Food Processors
• Food Distributors, Importers
• Food Warehouses and Cold Storage Facilities
• Food Ingredient Manufacturers and Distributors
• Beverage Bottlers, Suppliers, Juice and Non-carbonated Beverage Manufacturers
• Dietary Supplement Producers, Growers, Processors
• Animal Food Processor Operations, and Animal Feed Supply Producers, Farms and Granaries
• RETAIL SUPPLY CHAIN :
• Grocery Stores, Restaurants and Restaurant Groups, Breweries,
• Catering Companies, Food Trucks, Start-up Food Businesses

About COMPONENTS OF OUR PROGRAMS

Risk Assessment
As a first step we perform a risk assessment to determine what areas need to be addressed in order to assure that you are complying with all food health codes.
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Food Safety Compliance Program
We work with you to create a customized food safety compliance program tailored to your exact needs.
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Ongoing Monitoring
Our services are on-going, and assist in training, auditing, and monitoring with timely updates to you to make sure that you are always up-to-date on any upcoming changes to the food health code. We work with you to assure that you not only comply with all state and local health codes, but that you also have a process in place to effectively deal with unannounced inspector visits without having to sacrifice your exceptional customer service.

FSMA Compliance Ready

Pilothouse Advisors will ensure you’re FSMA compliant using our excusive FSMA Compliance PROGRAMS
Using our food safety and FDA regulatory specialists we work with clients to develop food safety plans and prerequisites programs that meet all FDA requirements. September 17th, 2018 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) deadline was passed, assure that you are in FSMA compliance.

• Receive clear guidance with our thorough FSMA Compliance Assessment
• Develop a Food Safety Plan customized for your operations
• Rest easy with a thorough re-analysis of existing Food Safety Plan
• Ensure your facilities have the required PCQI personnel with on-site training
• Utilize the Pilothouse proprietary Enterprise Food Safety and Regulatory Risk Assessment

Contact us for your free FSMA compliance Pilothouse Risk Assessment, we can evaluate where you stand regarding your FSMA preparedness.

Assuring a GFSI Certification Rating

Helping food companies achieve and sustain high scores with SQF, BRC, and FSSC 22000. Save internal management time and take the stress out of GFSI certification with Pilothouse Advisors assistance.
• Achieve certification while reducing constraints on your teams
• Automate your GFSI sustainability program for your next SQF audit, BRC audit, or FSSC 22000 audit
• Ensure a smooth transition to SQF Edition 8 or BRC Global Standard 8
• Keep your staff GFSI trained

GFSI COMPLIANCE PROGRAMS

Our staff provides you with certified GFSI consultants that have a proven track record helping food manufacturers, food distributors and food packaging manufacturers to obtain GFSI certification.


We have a “proprietary Pilothouse process” that will prepare you to pass your certification audit for the following standards:

• SQF
• BRC
• FSSC 22000
• PrimusGFS
• Global G.A.P.
• Safe Feed/Safe Food
• GMP/HACCP

Clients typically work with us because they do not have the time, resources or expertise to put a GFSI-compliant program in place the right way. We customize the way we work with our clients to meet their exact needs.
• GFSI Gap Assessment
• GFSI Program Development
• GFSI Implementation
• GFSI Audit Preparation
• GFSI Audit Corrective Action Support

HACCP Program Assistance

Your Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) Plan is the foundation of your food safety system. Pilothouse Advisors HACCP Consultants become an extension of your HACCP team to build confidence in your systems and documentation of your HACCP program.
• Create a new HACCP plan
• Perform annual reassessment to improve existing HACCP plans
• Ensure key team members are trained with accredited by HACCP Alliance
• Provide on-site HACCP training customized to your unique operations

HACCP ASSURANCE

We help assure that your food safety programs meet the required state and local health department regulations so you can stay focused on your customers, avoid fire drills when called on by health organizations.

We are certified to write HACCP Plans such as:
• Reduced Oxygen Packaging
• Cook-Chill
• Sous Vide
• Fermentation
• Smoking
• Pickling
• Growing Sprouts
• Dry Curing and Aging