GHP Food Hygiene Audits

What is a Good Hygiene Practice (GHP) Audit?

Good hygiene practice (GHP) guidelines ensure that safe handling of food and proper sanitary measures are in place in your food supply chain. We help you achieve GHP compliance with specialized audits that check for the conformity of hygiene, sanitary and food handling practices at each step of food processing.

Our food audits cover all areas of your food supply chain to ensure GHP guidelines are met, including:

Food handling practices
Employee hygiene practices
Sanitation facilities
Pest control
Prevention of physical and chemical hazards

In addition, QIMA provides detailed reports with objective data on risk factors and areas of concern, helping you improve your food safety and quality systems.

GHP Compliance in the Food Industry

GHP compliance is the first step towards establishing hygiene management and is applicable across the food processing chain. Compliance with GHP guidelines through a successful audit is the most basic step brands and manufacturers in the food industry must follow in order to ensure food safety.

GHP compliance must be met before manufacturers can implement other international standards of food safety, such as GMP or ISO 22000, as well as their own HACCP plans.

GMP: Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) refers to regulations set in place by the U.S. FDA that require manufacturers to ensure their products, including food products, are safe.
HACCP: Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) is a method of identifying and managing food safety risk
ISO 22000: ISO 22000 is a food safety standard created by the International Organization for Standardization that is applicable to all food producers.

The US FDA and other regulatory bodies worldwide recommend GHP compliance to ensure that a company is committed to reducing food contamination and food-borne diseases by implementing food safety practices.

To ensure continuing compliance with GHP, QIMA recommends performing follow-up surveillance visits at 3-month intervals.

Why Perform a GHP Food Audit?

Mitigate the risk of improper food hygiene by performing a food hygiene audit. A GHP audit will help you:

Reduce consumers’ risk of illness
Comply with required standards for food processors
Exhibit excellence in food safety best practices
Increase consumer confidence
Align practices with GMP and/or HACCP certification requirements

Food Hygiene Audit Expertise

GHP audits help food industry professionals ensure food safety and prevent food-borne illnesses. QIMA offers comprehensive food hygiene audits for a wide variety of industries including:

Hotels (4 and 5 stars, and chains of express inns)
Restaurants (including fast food chains)
Catering (including enterprise kitchen)
Grocery stores
Seafood
Organic food
Frozen food
Food ingredients

More Resources

Good Manufacturing Practice Food Audits - Learn how GMP audits help you ensure safe and quality food.
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