Now you have decided who you want to work with as a food safety consultant, we discuss how to work with them successfully.
Category: Food Business Growth
Hiring a Food Safety Consultant: Why and How-To
Food safety is a critical element of business success, but isn’t something you have to do alone. A food safety consultant can provide the support and expertise you need to thrive. As a small business owner, you have a lot to juggle. From recipe development to negotiating with vendors and buyers to posting on social […]
From Home Kitchen to Market: Demystifying Cottage Food Regulations in the Mid-Atlantic
If you’re contemplating starting a business, you may want to begin operating out of your home kitchen. Maybe you have a snack mix that’s so good your friends say you should sell it. Or your jams and jellies have won prizes and now it’s time to bring them to a bigger audience at the local […]
Audit Case Study: The Value of a Food Safety Consultant
Third-party audits are one of the tools used to keep our food supply safe and inspected. Larger stores and distributors often require proof of a third-party audit as part of their wholesale purchasing agreements. Therefore, as your food business grows, you need to be prepared to get one. A third-party audit is an audit conducted […]
Grow Your Business with Food Safety
A good food safety program allows you to scale up your food business without sacrificing the quality or consistency of your product. With a larger reach, you can get your product into more kitchens, solve more consumer problems, and make more of a profit to keep growing. Most conversations about scaling up focus on capital, […]
A Strong Recall Plan is a Food Business’s Best Friend
Recalls are inevitable, but they don’t have to be a death sentence for your food business. A strong recall plan will mean that you can avoid panic and have a well managed food recall.
Scaling up your food production? Have you identified your food safety ‘what ifs’?
If food safety is the process of ensuring that our food does not harm us in the short term, then how do we figure out those potential locations of harm? Especially when scaling up, knowing the answers to your ‘what ifs’ is a critical piece of the the food safety puzzle.