food safety CONSULTING
We have a very hands-on approach and believe in building long term relationships with our clients. Our support services empowers employees with the knowledge, mindset and skills needed to strengthen food safety and quality systems, brick-by-brick, day-by-day. We see ourselves as builders of systems and catalysts for change. If there is a better way of doing things we will certainly help you take take that path. Sometimes the most powerful changes come from doing small improvements every day over a long period. Many of these changes do not cost money, but merely require a different mindset. We have witnessed the power of incremental gain with many of the clients we have worked with. Drawing from many years of experience working with many different industries and processes we can certainly make your journey towards certification achievable using a proven consulting methodology, with an excellent track record.
Our consultancy services include assistance with the implementation of the following Food Safety and Quality Management Systems:
- HACCP as per Retail Chain Store requirements (aligned with GFSI requirements)
- FSSC 22000 / ISO 22000
- AIB
- ISO 9001
- GLOBALG.A.P.
- ISO 14001
- OHAS 18001
- Coaching and mentoring
- Maintenance support services
Did you know that Entecom is also listed as GLOBALG.A.P. licensed Farm Assurer Company? This means that our approved consultants are able to provide expertise to help producers implement Good Agricultural Practices. Click here to see our listing.
We also offer the implementation of Tempo, a paperless software managment solution, to ensure that your systems work smarter and reduce the amount of stress associated with conventional paper systems. Click here to learn more about Tempo.
Clients that we have worked with over the years include, but are not limited to: Dynamic Commodities, Snackworks, Illovo, Spier, Pioneer Foods, Nampak, Polyoak Packaging, Unifrutti, Rhodes Food Group, East Balt, Wild Coast Abalone, Montego Pet Nutrition, I&J, Premier Foods and Doppio Zero.
Please click here to see what our clients say about us
some of our CONSULTants in action
Hands-on approach
Beyond the obvious
Mind changing
Empowering
MAINTENANCE SUPPORT SERVICES
If you answer yes to the following questions, our maintenance support service might be the perfect solution you are looking for.
- Have a new QA Manager who needs to be coached on the Food Safety Management system, but you don't have the time to coach her?
- Your QA Manager is going on vacation or maternity leave and you need someone to assist their deputy with the maintenance of the system until they return?
- Are you a small / medium sized businesses and need to pass Retain Chain Store audits but canot afford a full time QA Manager?
- Find it difficult to take the time to conduct monthly internal audits?
- Struggle to maintain an effective corrective action system?
- Need help with your management reviews?
- Have a good Quality Control team but find it difficult to take the time to do forward and reverse traceability exercises, mock recalls, food defence audits, food fraud audits?
- Too nervous to manage the review of the HACCP studies on your own?
Our Support Service solution includes:
- Update the Food Safety / Quality Managment Systems to remain current with customer requirements
- Mock recall, forward and reverse traceability exercises
- Assist with Management Review Meetings
- Compilation of monthly trend analysis
- Document and record revision control
- Compilation of product specifications
- Updating / reviewing of risk assessments
- Customer complaint investigations
- Food defence audits
- Microbiological Monitoring
- HACCP Study review
- Internal Audits
system Maintenance support services
Consulting
- Complete Food Safety Management System Implementation
- System integration
- Process streamlining
- Root cause analysis and problem solving
- Coaching and mentoring the food safety team
- Maintenance Support Services customised to your requirements
Training
- Customized & flexible
- Practical
- Fun and interactive
- Mind changing
- Presented by subject matter experts
- Inclusive of workplace assessments
- Multilingual facilitators
Auditing
- Gap Audits
- Pre-certification readiness audits
- Internal Audits
- Problem solving audits
- Safe Serve Audits
- Hygiene Audits
- SMETA
Tempo
- Paperless QMS
- Integration with HR, OHAS and ISO 14001 paperless modules
- Audit Master provided a bird's-eye-view of how entire system is cross-referenced to the requirements of the relevant standard
For more information about Tempo, the paperless software solution, click here
our Laboratory partner
Food Chain Laboratories functions as a Microbiological (food, feed, water, environmental monitoring, veterinary, pharmaceuticals and raw material), Serological (veterinary) and Molecular (PCR on veterinary samples) Testing Laboratory. The lab is is situated in Port Elizabeth and opened its doors in April 2013.
Why use FCL?
- DAFF approved
- SANAS 17025 Accredited
- Affiliation to Entecom
- Affiliated to The Poultry Practice
- Added value via reporting, flagging and trending of results
"Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof."
Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek
