Food & Dietary Supplements

Food & Dietary Supplements covers human food and the supplements regulated alongside it — manufacturing, processing, packing, and holding under preventive-controls and HACCP frameworks. Quality here is food safety: keeping pathogens, allergens, and physical and chemical hazards out of the food supply, and proving the controls that do it.

Anchored by FDA’s FSMA rules (21 CFR 117 preventive controls, 111 for supplements, plus FSVP and food-defense), the Codex Alimentarius (HACCP; CXC 1-1969), and ISO 22000 for food-safety management. Retailer-driven GFSI schemes add a strong private-standard layer on top of the regulatory baseline.

A food-safety plan built on hazard analysis with risk-based preventive controls, monitoring, corrective action, and verification (FSMA 21 CFR 117).

Critical control points, sanitation, and environmental monitoring for pathogens — the operational core of food safety (Codex, ISO 22000).

Allergen management and accurate labelling — undeclared allergens are the single largest driver of food recalls.

Foreign-supplier verification (FSVP) and food-defense planning against intentional adulteration across an increasingly global supply chain.

• ›Undeclared allergens from labelling or changeover errors
• ›Pathogen contamination (Listeria, Salmonella, E. coli) from sanitation gaps
• ›Foreign material in product
• ›Unverified foreign suppliers entering the supply chain

Derived from the 9 standards SPEQ decodes for this industry.