WHAT WE OFFER
Food Defense and Food Fraud Vulnerability Assessment
Food Defense and Food Fraud assessment tools are vital to food firms that wish to develop food defense and food fraud control plans with the aims of fulfilling legal obligations, customer requirements and/or streamlining their operational systems. Specifically, Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) now require organizations that are already certified, to any of the GFSI approved schemes or those seeking certification in any of those schemes, to perform Food defense and Food fraud vulnerability assessment and put in place appropriate control plans. Some of the GFSI recognised schemes include FSSC 22000, BRC, IFS Food, SQF Code, Global G.A.P, China HACCP, Global Red Meat Standard and BAP Seafood Processing Standard. In addition, in May 2016, US FDA released its final rule on Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration, which requires food firms operating in America and those exporting to America to develop and implement food defense plans. Through the guidance of our knowledgeable Consultants, your organization will be able to categorise and mitigate risks associated with intentional contamination of food (Food defense vulnerability) and risks associated with intentional deception using food, food ingredients or packaging for economic gain (Food Fraud vulnerability). At the end of our training, your team will be able to use our tools to develop and implement robust Food Defense and Food Fraud Control Plans. Our food defense and food fraud assessment tools are user friendly, easy to understand and comprehensive. Warisco Consulting Services offers food defense and food fraud assessment as either a training package, implementation package, auditing package and/or advisory package
TRAININGS
Our trainings are tailor made and categorized into over ten groups to cater for the needs of various clients. These include five packages in food safety and five packages in quality management system (ISO 9001:2015). Other packages include trainings in ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. Food safety is offered either as awareness or refresher or introductory course or internal auditor course and covers various schemes, which include FSSC 22000, ISO 22000, Global G.A.P, HACCP, ISO 17025, BRCGS and Food Hygiene. Food safety trainings are geared towards equipping delegates with the knowledge and practical skills in establishing and maintaining hygienic environment for production of safe foods. The trainings also aim at imparting knowledge and skills in system implementation and improvement. Our trainings involve workshops, case studies and video projection of benchmarked best practices.
Quality Management, EMS and OH&S trainings are offered either as implementer or awareness or refresher or introductory course or internal auditor course and aligned with the requirements of QMS ISO 9001: 2015, ISO 14001 & ISO 45001 standards respectively. We also offer root cause analysis and risk based thinking courses. Our approach to QMS/EMS/OH&S training is similar with FSMS programs but the trainings target a wide range of sectors (both food and non-food sectors). Warisco’s Consultants are experts in food safety management and quality management systems and have relevant experience and in-depth knowledge in certification requirements in the above schemes
Our Trainings are now being offered either through virtual platforms or conventional method (normal classroom type). Virtual trainings are live events conducted by a Tutor through Ms Teams, Zoom or Google meet
AUDITING
Our Consultants are certified, as Lead Auditors, by various certification bodies; by SGS Ltd, NSF International, PECB, Kenya Bureau of Standards and Bureau Veritas Certification (BVC). Our Consultants have worked with or for these international certification bodies thereby accumulating wealth of experience in auditing skills. Warisco work with the clients by performing 1st party audits (internal audits) or 2nd party audits (supplier audits) against food safety, quality management standards/legal, OHS, EMS, SMETA and ETI requirements or specified criteria. We have human resource with adequate experience and capability on 1st and 2nd party audits in food fraud/food defense assessment, HACCP, ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, Global G.A.P, BRCGS, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018, SMETA and ETI. We are expanding our human resource capacity to accommodate Foreign Supplier Assessment Programs of US FDA’S Food Safety Modernization Act
LABORATORY TESTING, CALIBRATION & CERTIFICATION SERVICES
Warisco Consulting services has partnered with many service providers to support our clients in implementing and maintaining basic conditions and activities that are necessary for creating hygienic environment for production of safe food. In technical terms, these basic conditions and activities are referred to as pre-requisite programs (PRP). So far, we have partnered with a locally accredited laboratory to support our clients with laboratory and calibration services. We also support our clients enhance their staff capacities through training and implementation of Good Laboratory Principles in their laboratories. In addition, we have also partnered with highly experienced service providers in: cleaning and sanitation programs, personnel hygiene program, pest control program, water and wastewater treatment programs. We are in the process of expanding our menu for the benefit of our clients! Contact us to get linked with our partners. Warisco Consulting Services has also partnered with a accredited certification body to support our clients with personnel and system certification services. Feel free to contact us for more details
DOCUMENTATION & ADVISORY
Our Consultants will work with you in documenting your management systems and addressing some of the teething food safety, quality assurance, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 challenges that your business may face. These may include documenting system requirements and advisory on challenges in system implementation, technical aspects of hazard identification and assessment and their control plans. We will assist your teams to document changes in standards; within the above mentioned scope. We also address verification reports; including biological, chemical, physical and process non-conformances. In addition, we deal with supplier assessment queries that address food defense and food fraud vulnerability assessment and control plans. Our Consultants also welcome queries concerning regulatory requirements and compliance criteria
OUR PACKAGES
Trainings
The following costing options are available; @ Delegate @ Day or Lump sum package
Implementation
Flexible package depending on the size of the organization and the journey covered in implementation of that standard
Audits
Competitive price pegged on total man hours or per day rate
Documentation
Food Defense & Food Fraud
Offered as a training package, implementation package, auditing package and/or advisory package
System Certification
In partnership with an accredited body
GFSI’s Global Markets Program
Affordable Costing that Support: capacity development through systems implementation, training, documentation and technical expertise
SOCIAL STANDARDS- SMETA & ETI
Auditing: Supplier or Internal/Gap Audit
Training: General Staff Awareness and Awareness Course for Management
Documentation: Addressing the Identified gaps through documentation
Advisory: Technical advice on how to close the identified gaps