Food Safety Consulting Services: HACCP, GFSI Manuals, Gap Analysis and Audit Readiness

A food safety consultant helps a food, beverage, packaging, dietary supplement or cannabis facility design, document and implement the programs required by regulators, certification schemes and customers. At Kiwa ASI that includes building or reviewing HACCP and food safety plans, writing cGMP and cGAP standard operating procedures, assembling a GFSI-ready food safety management system manual, running gap analyses and sanitary design assessments, and developing food defense, food fraud, crisis management and food safety culture plans. The consultant works alongside your quality team so the system fits how your facility actually operates.

Kiwa ASI consultants work with SQF, BRCGS, FSSC 22000, IFS and PrimusGFS certification requirements, FSMA Preventive Controls for Human Food under 21 CFR Part 117, FDA current good manufacturing practices, cGMP for dietary supplements under 21 CFR Part 111, ISO 22716 for cosmetics, USDA and state agricultural requirements, and cannabis quality management system requirements such as CSQ and state GMP rules. If a customer has issued a proprietary supplier standard, we can build your programs to that standard as well.

No. All consulting services are delivered through ASI Training and Consulting, LLC, which operates separately from our accredited certification body, ASI Food Safety, LLC. Consultants who help build your system do not audit your facility for certification, and the certification body does not see your consulting work. This separation is required by ISO/IEC 17065 and by GFSI-benchmarked schemes to protect audit impartiality, and it means you remain free to certify with Kiwa ASI or with any other certification body.

For a single-site facility, a HACCP plan or FSMA food safety plan is typically developed over several weeks to a few months, depending on the number of products and processes, the condition of existing documentation, and how quickly your team can validate critical limits and generate records. Kiwa ASI scopes the project during an initial call and gives you a fixed timeline before work begins. Facilities preparing for a first certification audit should plan for 6 to 12 months from kickoff to audit so programs have time to generate the records auditors sample.

Yes. Document-based work such as HACCP plan review, SOP writing, GFSI manual development and food fraud vulnerability assessments can be completed remotely through video calls and shared document review. Work that depends on seeing the facility, including gap analyses, sanitary design assessments and food defense site assessments, is best done on site. Many clients combine a remote documentation phase with a shorter on-site visit to reduce cost.

A gap analysis is done early, before or during implementation, and answers the question of what still needs to be built by comparing your programs clause by clause against the target standard. A pre-assessment is a practice audit run close to the certification date, after the system is in place, and answers whether you would pass. Kiwa ASI offers both through ASI Training and Consulting, LLC, and each ends with a written report and prioritized action plan.

The cost of food safety consulting depends on the services you need, the standard or regulation you are working toward, the size and complexity of the facility, the number of products and processing lines, whether the work is remote or on site, and travel. Kiwa ASI prices consulting as fixed-scope projects so you know the total before work begins. Contact Kiwa ASI at info@asifood.com or call 1 (800) 477-0778 for a customized quote.

Yes. Kiwa ASI delivers live instructor-led and online self-paced training, including HACCP, PCQI, SQF Edition 10 implementing and practitioner courses, cGMP, allergen management, environmental monitoring, food defense, internal auditing and food safety culture. A training needs analysis from our consulting team identifies the competency gaps in your workforce and maps them to the right courses, and private on-site sessions are available for groups.