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IMC Client Achieves Highest Safe Quality Food 9.0 Certification Rating of “Excellent”
With the help of: Pennsylvania Manufacturing Extension Partnership
About
The Challenge
Over the past two years, the company has been expanding into providing their own products, such as chocolate chips, as ingredients to other manufacturers of food products. This led to a substantial opportunity to increase company revenues by opening new markets in the US and worldwide as an ingredient manufacturer/supplier.
Due to regulations and standards that are required and requested as conditions of doing business with this market and to fully develop and execute on this substantial new market opportunity, Lang’s Chocolates was required to develop a hazard analysis and critical control point plan (HACCP) and become SQF (Safe Quality Food) trained and certified, as recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), and ultimately required by the Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) by 2021.
His background and knowledge were so relevant and his delivery set a solid foundation upon which we could build for our re-certification as well.