Nine practice areas covering the regulatory frameworks businesses actually operate under — from preventive controls and HACCP to GFSI certification readiness, retail inspection programs, foreign supplier verification and U.S. import services.
Which framework governs you is a question with a real answer.
Food businesses frequently buy the wrong program — a full manufacturing quality system where a qualified facility attestation would do, or a generic HACCP template where a Part 123 seafood plan is required. Every engagement begins by determining what actually applies.
Scope before spend
Applicability is settled on your floor, in writing, before a single program is proposed.
Assess
A gap assessment against the rules that plausibly apply to your products, processes, volume and jurisdiction.
Build
Plans, programs, specifications and records written against your verified process — not adapted from a template.
Verify
Internal audits, mock inspections and pre-assessment audits under realistic conditions.
Train
The people who run the system, trained on the system they run — with refreshers tied to actual findings.
Practice areas
The full scope of what we do.
Grouped so you can find yours fast. Each category page sets out the regulatory basis, how an engagement typically runs, and the questions clients most often ask before starting.
U.S. Import & Market Entry
Regulatory pathway determination, importer responsibilities, documentation, supplier standing and customs broker coordination — for any legally importable product, not only food. The one practice area with its own top-level section.
HACCP, Seafood HACCP, PCQI, FSVP, GMP and inspection-readiness training — onsite, virtual, or rolled out across a multi-unit system, for the people who actually run the programs the categories below produce.
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act moved the regulatory burden from reacting to contamination to proving you prevented it. We build the hazard analysis, preventive controls, supplier verification and records systems that carry that burden — and we prepare your team for the inspection that tests them.
A HACCP plan is only worth what its critical limits can be defended with. We develop, rebuild and independently review plans across seafood, juice, retail and specialized processes — including the variance and validation documentation that regulators ask for first.
Part 111 is a specification-driven rule. Most observations we see trace back to a specification that was never established, an identity test that was never performed, or a batch record that a quality unit signed without the supporting data attached.
Preventive controls only work when the programs beneath them do. We build and audit the prerequisite layer — sanitation, environmental monitoring, allergen segregation, food defense, supplier approval — and the CAPA discipline that keeps findings from repeating.
Retail customers increasingly require a GFSI-benchmarked certification, and the first audit is where unprepared systems get expensive. We run readiness assessments, build the documentation, train internal auditors and conduct pre-assessment audits against the exact issue of the standard you will be audited to.
Retail food safety is judged in public. We run independent inspections against your jurisdiction's adopted food code, standardise expectations across units and franchisees, and build the corrective action and training loop that turns a bad inspection into a non-repeating event.
Opening a retail food establishment is a permitting project before it is a food safety project. We map the approvals your jurisdiction actually requires, prepare the plan review submission, resolve the processes that need a variance, and get you through the pre-operational inspection without the rework that moves an opening date.
As the FSVP importer you carry responsibility for hazards you did not create, in facilities you do not operate, often in another language. We build the hazard analysis, supplier evaluation and verification records that answer an FDA FSVP records request within the time allowed.
USDA organic certification is issued by an accredited certifying agent — never by a consultant. SURU Compliance is the compliance partner that gets you ready: we help build the Organic System Plan, assemble the ingredient and supplier evidence, review labels and claims, and prepare your team for the certifier's inspection so the process moves once instead of stalling on paperwork.
Send us the operation, the products and the deadline. We will tell you what applies, what does not, and what it takes to be ready — before you commit to anything.
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.