Each service is one piece of work with a start, a finish and a written report at the end. Most are delivered remotely, so where you are usually makes no difference.
A food safety service is a defined consulting project carried out for a food business by an external specialist, covering a single area such as a food safety audit, a HACCP plan review, food label compliance, supplier approval or corrective action after an audit finding. It has an agreed scope, an agreed price and a written report at the end.
We deliver food safety consulting to manufacturers, processors, packers, importers, food supplement brands, storage and distribution operators and food service businesses. Work is carried out against the certification standard you hold or are working towards, including BRCGS, IFS Food, FSSC 22000, ISO 22000 and SQF, and against the food law of every market your product is placed on, including EU food hygiene and food information regulations and FSMA preventive controls rules in the United States.
Most services are delivered remotely from documents and records you already hold, which keeps cost down and turnaround short for businesses anywhere in the world. Where a service depends on observing the site itself, such as a mock certification audit or a hygiene assessment, we arrange a visit and cost it with the rest of the project.
Everything on this page is a food safety service. You buy one defined piece of work, at an agreed price, and it ends with a deliverable. That suits manufacturers, processors, packers, importers, food supplement brands, storage and distribution operators and food service businesses who need one thing done well.
| Food safety service | Ongoing consulting | |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | One defined project with an agreed scope. | An ongoing relationship across your whole system. |
| How it is priced | Quoted once, against that scope. | Agreed as a retainer or as a programme of work. |
| How long it lasts | Days or weeks, ending with the deliverable. | Months or years, with no fixed end. |
| What you get | A report, register, plan or document set. | Continuous advice, attendance at audits and hands on support. |
| Who it suits | A specific problem, a deadline, or a gap you already know about. | A business without an internal technical function, or one carrying several standards. |
| Moving between them | Any service can become ongoing work if you want it to. | Consulting clients can commission single services at any time. |
If you can name the problem, take a food safety service. If you need someone alongside you across the whole system, take ongoing consulting. Neither locks you out of the other.
A structured comparison of your current food safety system against the standard you need to meet, returning every gap with a priority and an owner.
Gap register listing each finding, the clause it fails, its severity, and a prioritised corrective action roadmap with realistic timings.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on number of sites, standard in scope, number of processes, volume of existing documentation, remote or on site.
Read moreAn independent internal audit carried out to the requirements of your standard, satisfying the internal audit clause with someone genuinely independent of the work.
Full audit report with findings graded, objective evidence recorded, and a nonconformity register ready to submit to your certification body.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on number of sites, standard in scope, audit duration required, number of processes, remote or on site.
Read moreFocused preparation in the weeks before a certification audit, covering evidence, records, and readiness of the people who will be interviewed.
Readiness verdict, evidence pack assembled against the clause list, document gap closure, and a briefing for the team who will face the auditor.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on standard and issue, audit date, site size, system maturity.
Read moreA measured assessment of food safety culture across your site, meeting the culture requirements now embedded in the major GFSI standards.
Culture maturity baseline across defined dimensions, anonymised survey results, observed behaviour findings, and an improvement plan with measurable indicators.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on headcount, number of shifts, number of languages, survey and interview scope.
Read moreA full rehearsal of your certification audit, run to the same protocol and duration as the real one, before the certification body arrives.
Audit report in certification body format, findings graded to the scheme's own system, and a readiness verdict with the time needed to close each item.
Delivered on site. Price depends on standard and issue, site size, audit duration, number of shifts, travel.
Read moreA review of your operation against the food law that genuinely applies to it, in each market you place product on.
Compliance register by regulation and article, each item marked compliant, at risk, or noncompliant, with the action required.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on markets in scope, product categories, operation type, number of sites.
Read moreA second party audit of one of your suppliers, carried out on your behalf against your own requirements or a recognised standard.
Supplier audit report, risk verdict, nonconformity list, and an approval recommendation you can put on file.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on supplier location and travel, audit protocol, audit duration, language requirements.
Read moreA structured walk of the facility assessing hygienic design, zoning, flows, fabrication and housekeeping against prerequisite programme requirements.
Findings report with photographic evidence, zoning and flow assessment, and a prioritised remediation list.
Delivered on site. Price depends on site footprint, number of production areas, travel, shift coverage.
Read moreAn assessment of what your people need to know for their roles, against what they have been trained on and what the standard requires.
Competence matrix by role, gap analysis against current records, and a costed training plan.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on headcount, number of roles, number of sites, languages required.
Read moreAn independent technical review of your existing HACCP plan, checking that the hazard analysis holds and that the CCPs are genuinely the right ones.
Review report marking every element as sound, weak or missing, with specific rewrites for anything that would not survive an audit.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of product families, number of process steps, standard in scope.
Read moreBuilding the full documented system your standard requires, from policy through to record templates.
Complete documentation set, indexed and version controlled, including manual, procedures, work instructions and record templates.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on standard in scope, number of sites, what already exists, languages required.
Read moreDevelopment of a complete HACCP plan for your products and processes, built to Codex principles and the requirements of your standard.
Full HACCP plan including flow diagrams, hazard analysis, CCP determination with decision rationale, critical limits, monitoring, corrective action and verification.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of product families, number of process steps, standard in scope, whether flow diagrams exist.
Read moreA focused review of the hazard analysis itself, which is where most HACCP plans fail an audit.
Hazard by hazard assessment covering identification, significance decisions, justification quality and control measure adequacy.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of product families, number of process steps, hazard categories in scope.
Read moreA review of the prerequisite programmes underneath your HACCP plan, since a hazard analysis is only as sound as the PRPs it assumes.
PRP by PRP assessment against the applicable technical specification, with gaps and the documentation needed to close them.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on number of PRPs in scope, standard in scope, site size.
Read moreWritten procedures your people will follow, produced for the specific processes you run, never adapted from a template.
Complete SOP set with responsibilities, frequencies, records, and the corrective action to take when the procedure is not met.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of procedures, process complexity, languages required.
Read moreA review of the records you keep against the records your standard and your regulator expect to see, including retention and legibility.
Record register mapped to requirements, gap list, retention assessment, and improved record templates where needed.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of record types, paper or digital, standard in scope.
Read moreA review of whether your controls have been validated as capable, and whether verification proves they keep working.
Validation evidence register per control, verification schedule assessment, and the specific evidence required where it is missing.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of CCPs and control measures, existing validation evidence, standard in scope.
Read moreA full legal review of your product label against the food information rules of every market you sell into.
Annotated label review listing every mandatory element, each marked compliant or noncompliant with the article cited, plus corrected wording ready to send to your designer.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of SKUs, target markets, number of languages, claims present on pack.
Read moreA review of your product specifications for completeness and technical accuracy, so they hold up with customers and auditors.
Specification assessment per product with missing fields identified, technical errors corrected, and a compliant specification template.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of specifications, product complexity, customer format requirements.
Read moreA focused review of how allergens are declared on pack, which is the single highest risk area on any food label.
Allergen declaration assessment per SKU against the recipe and the target market rules, including emphasis, naming, and precautionary labelling advice.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of SKUs, target markets, recipe complexity.
Read moreA review of an existing label against the requirements of a new export market, before you commit to artwork.
Market by market compliance report, mandatory element mapping, language obligations, and the specific artwork changes required.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of SKUs, number of target markets, languages required.
Read moreA review of the nutrition declaration and every claim on pack, checking each claim is permitted, authorised and correctly conditioned.
Claim by claim verdict citing the regulation and register entry, nutrition declaration check, and compliant rewording for anything that cannot stand.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of SKUs, number of claims, target markets, whether analysis data exists.
Read moreA review of every ingredient and additive in the recipe, checking each is authorised for that food category at that level in each target market.
Ingredient register with authorisation status, permitted level, category restriction and correct declaration wording for each entry.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of recipes, number of ingredients, target markets, novel or fortified components.
Read moreStructured root cause analysis and corrective action planning for findings that need to close properly and stay closed.
Root cause analysis per finding using a recognised method, corrective and preventive action plan, and the verification evidence needed to demonstrate closure.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of findings, finding severity, response deadline, investigation depth required.
Read moreA review of the response you have drafted before it goes to the certification body, so it is accepted the first time.
Response assessment per finding, marked accept, strengthen or rewrite, with the evidence the auditor will expect attached to each.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of findings, response deadline, standard and scheme.
Read moreA recovery programme after a failed or downgraded audit, covering everything from root cause through to reaudit readiness.
Recovery plan with a dated milestone schedule, corrective action across every finding, system remediation, and a readiness verdict before the reaudit.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on number and grade of findings, reaudit date, scale of system rework, site visits needed.
Read moreHands on support closing a major nonconformity inside the window your certification body has given you.
Closure package including root cause, corrective action, implementation evidence and effectiveness verification, formatted to the scheme's requirements.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on number of majors, closure window, implementation work required, site visits needed.
Read moreSupport during a live withdrawal or recall, covering decision making, notification, traceability and the closure record.
Recall decision support, authority and customer notification drafting, traceability reconstruction, and the full post incident report.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on urgency, volume of affected product, number of markets, authority involvement.
Read moreSupport responding to a competent authority inspection finding or enforcement notice.
Response strategy, drafted correspondence citing the relevant provisions, corrective action plan, and evidence pack for the follow up visit.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on nature of the finding, response deadline, market and authority, enforcement stage.
Read moreA review of the documentation you hold for each supplier, checking it is current, complete and covers the material you buy.
Supplier file assessment listing every missing, expired or mismatched document, with the specific request to send each supplier.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of suppliers, documents per supplier, number of materials.
Read moreA timed traceability exercise in both directions, testing whether you can account for product inside the window your standard demands.
Mock recall report with achieved timings, mass balance reconciliation, gaps in the trace chain, and a corrective plan for anything that failed.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on number of sites, product complexity, number of trace steps, paper or digital records.
Read moreA review of how you approve and monitor suppliers, which is one of the most commonly failed clauses in every major standard.
Approval procedure assessment, supplier file audit against your own criteria, risk classification review, and a compliant approval framework.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of suppliers, number of raw material categories, existing procedure quality.
Read moreAn assessment of the traceability system itself, covering lot coding, record linkage and mass balance capability.
System assessment against the applicable requirements, lot code logic review, and a redesign recommendation where the chain breaks.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on number of sites, number of trace steps, recording method, number of SKUs.
Read moreA defensible risk classification across your supplier base, so monitoring effort goes where the hazard really is.
Risk scored supplier register with the methodology documented, and a monitoring schedule proportionate to each risk band.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of suppliers, number of material categories, data available.
Read moreAn end to end review of food safety control across your supply chain, from raw material origin through to customer delivery.
Supply chain map with control points identified, vulnerability assessment, and a control plan for each weak link.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on chain length and complexity, number of suppliers, number of markets, product risk.
Read moreA review of allergen control across the whole site, from receipt and storage through to changeover cleaning and validation.
Allergen control assessment covering segregation, scheduling, cleaning validation, labelling linkage and cross contact risk, with a control plan.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on number of allergens handled, number of production lines, changeover complexity.
Read moreA review of your cleaning programme and whether it has been validated as effective, not merely performed.
Cleaning schedule assessment, chemical and contact time review, validation evidence check, and a verification regime with defined limits.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on number of areas and lines, equipment complexity, existing validation evidence.
Read moreA review of your environmental monitoring programme, covering zoning, sample sites, frequency, organisms and how you respond to a positive.
Programme assessment with a zone based sampling plan, corrective action escalation for positives, and trend analysis requirements.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on site footprint, number of zones, product risk profile, existing programme maturity.
Read moreA review of the calibration programme covering every device you rely on to prove a control is working.
Equipment register with calibration status, traceability to reference standards, frequency assessment, and out of calibration procedure.
Delivered remotely. Price depends on number of devices, number of sites, device criticality.
Read moreA review of temperature control across storage, processing and distribution, including monitoring, alarms and what happens on a deviation.
Cold chain assessment by stage with monitoring adequacy, alarm and escalation review, deviation procedure, and validation evidence requirements.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on number of storage and transport stages, monitoring method, product risk profile.
Read moreA review of physical hazard control across the process, including detection equipment, its validation and its verification regime.
Foreign body risk assessment by process step, detection capability review, validation evidence check, and a verification schedule with reject handling.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on number of lines, detection equipment in place, product and packaging type.
Read moreA focused review of pathogen control in ready to eat environments, covering harbourage, zoning, sampling and seek and destroy response.
Pathogen control assessment with harbourage site mapping, zoning verdict, sampling plan, and a documented response protocol for a positive result.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on site footprint, ready to eat exposure, existing sampling history.
Read moreA review of the pest control programme and your contractor's performance against it, which auditors examine closely.
Programme assessment covering device mapping, inspection frequency, trend analysis, contractor reporting quality and proofing recommendations.
Remote as standard, on site by arrangement. Price depends on site footprint, number of devices, contractor reporting quality.
Read moreFour routes covering most of what businesses bring us. If none matches, tell us the problem and we will say which service fits.
No plan yet, start with HACCP plan development. A plan that attracts findings, start with a HACCP plan review, or go to a hazard analysis review where the findings sit in the analysis. A sound plan on weak programmes, take a prerequisite programme review. Controls you cannot evidence, take a verification and validation review. Where the documents are the problem, documentation development and SOP development cover it.
New to certification, start with a gap assessment. A date booked and a system built, take certification audit preparation. For a real rehearsal, take a mock certification audit. Internal audits lacking depth, take an internal audit. After an audit, audit finding response review and CAPA support cover the response. A major raised, take major nonconformity support. Certification lost, take failed audit recovery.
For a full check against information law, take a food label compliance review. Allergens specifically, take an allergen declaration review, which goes deeper. Claims on pack, take a nutrition and claims review. Composition, take an ingredient and additive review, and check it before artwork. A new market, take an export market label review. A wrong underlying document, take a product specification review.
Start with a supplier document review, the cheapest and frequently enough on its own. Approval failing at audit means the process is the problem, so take a supplier approval system review. To put monitoring where the risk is, take supplier risk classification. Where a supplier warrants a visit, take a supplier audit. If you cannot see past the business that invoices you, take a supply chain review.
Every service is quoted against your own scope. These are the factors that determine the price.
A single site is quoted differently from a group. Multi site work is usually cheaper per site, because the preparation is shared.
BRCGS, IFS, FSSC 22000, ISO 22000, SQF and FSMA each carry different evidence expectations, which changes the depth of the work.
Label, specification and HACCP work scales with the number of products or process families involved.
A system with gaps takes less time to assess than one with nothing documented at all.
Document based work is delivered remotely. Work requiring observation of the site carries travel and time on site.
Each market is assessed separately, because mandatory requirements diverge between them.
An audit date or a regulatory response window determines how the work is sequenced and how much runs in parallel.
Several services quoted as one project normally costs less than commissioning each separately.
Projects are built around how your operation already works. Scoping establishes your production schedule, your audit dates, who is available and how your records are kept, and the work is arranged around those constraints instead of fighting them.
That extends to the deliverable. Where you already use a particular register, report format or corrective action system, we supply findings in that format so they can be used directly.
You confirm the standard, the sites, the products and the deadline. This takes a short form, with no meeting needed.
You receive a quote setting out the scope, the deliverable, the timeline and the price. Work begins only once it is accepted.
Documents are reviewed, or a site visit takes place. Progress is reported as the work proceeds.
Findings are issued in writing, in a format suitable for an auditor, a customer or a competent authority.
Questions on the findings are answered after delivery, at no additional cost.
The report belongs to you. It can be reused, shared with customers, submitted to a certification body, or handed to whoever takes over the role.
Where a project identifies work outside its scope, that is stated plainly in the report and never converted into a further engagement.
Confi Food assigns work by subject. HACCP, labelling, certification standards, regulatory compliance, supplier assurance and monitoring are separate disciplines, and each piece goes to someone who works in that area. Every deliverable is reviewed internally by a second specialist before it reaches you.
Our technical positions are built from primary sources, meaning the legislation, the competent authority, Codex Alimentarius, the certification scheme owner or the relevant standards body. We set out how that works in our technical review and editorial policy, and what happens at each stage of an engagement in how Confi Food works.
Advisory work that runs alongside your operation instead of ending at a report.
Consulting →Certificated courses covering HACCP, auditing, labelling and the major standards.
Courses →Train a whole team on one standard.
Team training →Your food safety management system run externally, end to end.
Outsourced FSMS →Prices are not listed because the same service can be small or large. Checking one label for one country takes a fraction of the time that ten labels across four countries takes. What changes the price is how many sites you have, which standard you are held to, how many products are involved, how much paperwork already exists, whether anyone needs to visit your site, and how soon you need it. Tell us those things and you get a real price for your own situation.
No. Each service on this page stands on its own. Book one and nothing else follows. If you pick several they are quoted together as one project, which usually costs less than booking them one at a time because a lot of the groundwork is shared.
Confi Food works with food businesses worldwide. The company is registered in Estonia and most work is delivered remotely, so where you are rarely decides whether a project can go ahead. Site visits are arranged when the work needs one, and travel is quoted with the rest of the project. Any review of rules is written against the countries you sell in, so tell us which those are.
BRCGS, IFS Food, FSSC 22000, ISO 22000 and SQF for certification. FSMA and its preventive controls rules for the United States. EU food hygiene law, including Regulation (EC) 852/2004, and EU food information rules under Regulation (EU) 1169/2011. Customer standards and retailer codes are covered too if you can share the requirement document.
Most of it, yes. Anything based on documents works remotely. That covers label reviews, HACCP plan reviews, supplier files, specifications, corrective actions and traceability testing. Work that depends on seeing the building needs a visit, such as a mock certification audit or a hygiene assessment. Each service above says which applies.
A written report you own and can hand straight to an auditor, a customer or a regulator. Every service above says what its report contains before you book. Questions about the findings are answered after delivery, because a report nobody can act on is not finished work.
That depends on what is already booked and how urgent your deadline is. Deadlines are asked about up front, because an audit date or a deadline from a regulator changes the order work is done in. Say when you need it and the quote comes back with a real start date.
A service is one piece of work with an end point. Consulting runs alongside your business over months and covers whatever comes up. For one plan reviewed or one label cleared, a service costs less and finishes faster. For building or running a whole food safety system, consulting fits better.
Our consultants. Every project is assigned to a consultant with direct experience in the relevant area, whether that is labelling and claims, certification auditing, HACCP, or supply chain control. Our team's background spans manufacturing, packaging, hospitality and third party auditing across the food and food supplement sectors. Reports are reviewed internally before they reach you, and you are told at scoping who will be working on your project. Confi Food holds TrustBite recognition for its training and consulting practice.
You receive a written quote first. Once you accept it an invoice is sent directly and paid by bank transfer. There is no subscription and no card payment on this page.
Pick what you need and answer a few questions. A written quote comes back with the cost, the timing and what you will receive.