Services

Compliance work that holds up under inspection.

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.

Practice areas
9 categories
Service lines
96 listed services
Coverage
United States, onsite and remote

Where to start

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.

A food safety consultant in a lab coat and hairnet reviewing notes on a clipboard with a facility manager on a plant floor.

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.

Training & Education

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.

Included services

  • FSMA compliance
  • FDA inspection preparation
  • FDA response assistance
  • Preventive Controls
  • PCQI support
  • FSVP development and compliance
  • Supplier verification
  • Foreign supplier compliance
  • FDA records preparation
  • Recall assistance
  • Traceability compliance
  • Food facility registration assistance
  • Regulatory gap assessments

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.

Included services

  • HACCP development
  • HACCP review
  • Seafood HACCP – 21 CFR Part 123
  • Juice HACCP
  • Retail HACCP
  • Specialized process HACCP
  • Variance assistance
  • HACCP training

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.

Included services

  • 21 CFR Part 111
  • Dietary Supplement cGMP
  • Supplier qualification
  • Specification development
  • Batch record review
  • Audit preparation

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.

Included services

  • GMP / cGMP audits
  • Sanitation programs
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Allergen programs
  • Food defense
  • Food fraud
  • Recall programs
  • Supplier approval
  • CAPA
  • Root cause analysis
  • SOP development

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.

Included services

  • SQF
  • BRCGS
  • FSSC 22000
  • IFS
  • GlobalG.A.P. when applicable
  • Organic certification
  • Kosher/Halal preparation where appropriate
  • Certification readiness assessments
  • Internal audits
  • Pre-assessment audits

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.

Included services

  • Health department inspection readiness
  • Independent inspections
  • Operational food safety audits
  • HACCP
  • Variance support
  • Corrective action
  • Franchise compliance programs
  • Multi-unit inspection programs
  • Inspection standardization
  • Training
  • Food safety culture

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.

Included services

  • Retail food establishment permitting
  • Plan review preparation and submission
  • Menu and process review
  • Specialized process variance support
  • HACCP plan development for variance
  • Equipment and finish schedule review
  • Pre-operational inspection readiness
  • Certified Food Protection Manager planning
  • Change of ownership permitting
  • Remodel and menu change approvals
  • Mobile food unit and temporary event permitting
  • Commissary and shared kitchen agreements
  • Multi-unit and multi-jurisdiction permitting
  • Permit renewal and lapsed permit recovery

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.

Included services

  • FSVP
  • Supplier verification
  • Import documentation
  • FDA inspection preparation
  • Foreign supplier review
  • Supplier audits
  • Recall support
  • Traceability
  • Receiving programs

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.

Included services

  • Organic Certification Readiness
  • Organic System Plan preparation and support
  • Documentation Review
  • Ingredient Review
  • Supplier Documentation
  • Supplier Verification
  • Recordkeeping
  • Label Review
  • Organic Claim Review
  • Traceability
  • Audit Preparation
  • Corrective Action Support
  • Ongoing Compliance
  • Support communicating with an accredited certifying agent

Not sure which applies

Describe the situation and we will scope it.

You do not need to know whether your problem is a Part 117 problem, a Part 123 problem or a food code problem. That determination is part of the work.

Start right

Start with a gap assessment, not a guess.

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.

Direct contact

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.