Industries
Compliance is not one problem. It is fourteen different ones.
A sushi bar, a supplement manufacturer, a 3PL warehouse and a franchise system share almost nothing: not the regulation, not the hazard profile, not the audience reviewing them. Each page below sets out the real risks, the rules that typically apply, and how we approach it.
- Segments covered
- 14 industries
- Structure
- Risk → Regulation → Solution
- Coverage
- United States
01 — Retail & foodservice
Retail & foodservice
Judged in public, staffed under pressure, inspected against a locally adopted food code.
Restaurants
Public inspection results, high turnover and thin margins make retail food safety unforgiving. We inspect against your jurisdiction's adopted code and close findings before the health department returns.
Risk, regulation & solutionFranchise Systems
One franchisee's critical violation becomes the whole brand's problem. We build enforceable standards, calibrated audits and reporting that make franchisee conversations evidence-based.
Risk, regulation & solutionGrocery Retail
A supermarket is a dozen different food businesses under one roof, each with its own hazards. We assess department by department and build controls that fit how each one actually runs.
Risk, regulation & solutionConvenience Stores
Convenience retail has become a foodservice business with a convenience store attached. The food programs grew faster than the food safety systems supporting them.
Risk, regulation & solutionFoodservice Operations
Contract foodservice, healthcare, education and catering combine high volume, off-site transport and often highly susceptible populations. Consequences scale with the number of covers.
Risk, regulation & solutionSushi / Seafood
Seafood carries species-specific hazards and its own federal HACCP rule. Sushi programs add acidified rice and raw consumption on top. Both draw regulatory attention.
Risk, regulation & solution
02 — Manufacturing & brands
Manufacturing & brands
Answering to FDA, retail customers and a certification body at the same time.
Food Manufacturers
FDA inspection, customer audits and GFSI certification all test the same underlying system. We build it once, properly, so each of those reviews draws on the same evidence.
Risk, regulation & solutionDietary Supplement Manufacturers
Part 111 is built on written specifications and a quality unit with real authority. Most findings trace to a specification that was never established or data that never reached the batch record.
Risk, regulation & solutionPrivate Label Brands
Your name is on the package and someone else's plant made it. Oversight of the co-manufacturer is the whole job, and a certificate on file is not oversight.
Risk, regulation & solutionStartups
Decisions made in the first six months — formulation, process, co-packer, label — set your compliance cost for years. Most of them are cheaper to get right than to fix.
Risk, regulation & solutionSmall Food Businesses
Small operations are not exempt from everything, and they are rarely exempt from what they assume. We identify what genuinely applies and build the smallest program that satisfies it.
Risk, regulation & solution
03 — Supply chain
Supply chain
Responsible for hazards created elsewhere, and for proving the chain held.
Importers
As the FSVP importer you answer for hazards created in facilities you do not control. FSVP inspections are records inspections — and the file has to be producible on request.
Risk, regulation & solutionDistributors
Distributors rarely create hazards, but they decide whether one spreads or stops. Receiving discipline and lot-level traceability are the two controls that matter most.
Risk, regulation & solutionWarehouses
Storage facilities are judged on pest control, temperature integrity, segregation and traceability. Third-party warehouses are increasingly audited as hard as manufacturers.
Risk, regulation & solution
Beyond food
Importing something that is not food?
Consumer products, cosmetics, packaging, textiles, electronics, building materials, industrial goods — the U.S. import practice covers the full range of legally importable products, with the regulatory pathway determined by what the article actually is.
Same structure, every time
Risk. Regulation. Solution.
Every industry page follows the same order, because that is the order the work has to happen in. Identify what can actually go wrong, establish what the law requires, then design the control — not the reverse.
The operation sets the profile
A 3PL warehouse, a sushi bar and a supplement plant fail in different ways — and are assessed differently.
Risk
What genuinely goes wrong in this kind of operation, ranked by consequence rather than by how easy it is to fix.
Regulation
The rules that typically apply, cited plainly, with applicability hedged — because exemptions and modified requirements are common and jurisdictions differ.
SURU solution
What we actually do about it: the assessments, programs, audits and training that fit the operation as it runs.
Contact
A direct route to a conversation, because no page can substitute for looking at your specific operation.
Start right
Not sure which category you fall into?
Many operations sit in two or three at once — a manufacturer that also imports, a grocer that also runs a commissary. Describe what you do and we will tell you which frameworks apply.
Direct contact
- info@surucompliance.com
- 651-329-4787
- Serving food businesses nationwide, onsite and remotely.
SURU Compliance is a regulatory consulting practice. We are not a government agency, a certification body, or a law firm, and we do not provide legal advice or guarantee regulatory outcomes.