Food safety & manufacturing systems
Practical SQF audit preparation, PCQI support and traceability consulting for dairy and food manufacturers. Bring your procedures, production-floor practices and records into agreement.
NYC · Long Island · Eastern New Jersey
Remote support available. On-site work by arrangement.
PCQIPreventive Controls for Human Food
Advanced SQF PractitionerHands-on SQF implementation experience
Basic & Advanced HACCPAccredited course completion
Internal auditingSQF implementation coursework
Services
Start with a defined assessment or a specific operational problem. Each engagement is scoped to your site, products, timeline and team.
Review procedures, interview employees and sample records against the applicable SQF requirements. Identify gaps before your certification audit.
Your deliverable: Evidence-based findings and a prioritized corrective-action plan.
Challenge ingredient, packaging, rework and finished-product links. Follow inventory movements and test the records needed to account for affected product.
Your deliverable: A documented trace exercise, reconciliation and targeted improvements.
Investigate recurring problems, clarify responsibilities and put practical controls in place. Check effectiveness rather than stopping at a revised procedure.
Your deliverable: Root-cause documentation, an action tracker and effectiveness checks.
Review food-safety plans and supporting records within the agreed scope. Address documentation gaps and support reviews, updates and reanalysis.
Your deliverable: Defined review findings, recommended updates and a support schedule.
Make supplier records, operating procedures, verification schedules and employee training reflect how work actually happens on the floor.
Your deliverable: Usable procedures, record templates and clear responsibilities.
Review preventive-control validation documentation for relevance to the product and process. Identify missing support and coordinate qualified specialists where needed.
Your deliverable: An evidence-gap review and a defined plan for technical follow-up.
Validation scope: Documentation review and coordination do not include microbiological challenge studies, thermal-process design or process-authority determinations. Those activities require separately scoped work by appropriately qualified specialists.
Work directly with Karel Fernandez
I help manufacturers close the distance between what the procedure says and what happens on the production floor.
My background combines dairy manufacturing operations, PCQI and backup SQF practitioner responsibilities, traceability, inventory controls and employee training. I bring the operating detail and data discipline needed to investigate problems and make improvements stick.
The goal is a system your team can use, maintain and explain, not a binder that only comes out for the audit.
Karel Fernandez Food Safety & Manufacturing Systems ConsultantHow we work
You know what is being reviewed, what you will receive and what happens next.
Discuss your products, processes, audit timing and immediate concerns. Agree on the scope, responsibilities and deliverables before work begins.
Review the applicable requirements, observe the work and examine supporting records. Separate isolated mistakes from recurring system gaps.
Prioritize corrective actions and support the agreed improvements. Give your team clear ownership and a way to check effectiveness.
Let’s discuss your site
Send a brief description of your products, facility location and timeline. We will start by defining the problem and the right scope of support.
NYC · Long Island · Eastern New Jersey
Remote support available. On-site work by arrangement.
Please do not send confidential records with your initial inquiry.