Hancock’s Food Safety Consultants for Fast, Audit-Ready Certification.
FoodReady brings practical food safety consulting right to Hancock’s food and beverage businesses. We make compliance simple and keep your facility ready for certification audits year-round. Whether you’re making dairy products in Hancock County, running a small processing facility, or shipping packaged foods throughout northern Michigan, our consultants bring real industry experience together with FoodReady’s software. We’ll help you stay compliant, pass your audits, and keep your operations running safely and smoothly.
We’re not your typical consultants. We combine the expertise of seasoned auditors with cutting-edge digital tools to help Hancock food businesses build HACCP and food safety programs that meet GFSI, BRC, SQF, and retail audit requirements, plus inspections from the Michigan Department of Agriculture, USDA, and FDA.
Businesses across the country have used FoodReady’s Food Safety Plans and compliance tools to strengthen their programs, lower audit risks, and run their operations with confidence.
Dave Seddon, our Chief Food Safety Officer and SQF Auditor of the Year finalist, heads up our consulting team. With over 500 successful audits under his belt across all kinds of industries, Dave brings an auditor’s eye to your systems, making sure Hancock businesses have programs that regulators and certifiers will respect. He’s worked with everyone from small regional producers to major national manufacturers, so he knows how to tailor solutions to fit your specific needs. Under Dave’s guidance, FoodReady’s consultants blend technical know-how with practical, hands-on methods that keep your systems working smoothly well beyond audit day.
Our Hancock Food Safety Consultant team supports you through every step, from initial gap assessments to audit day. We’ll create HACCP and Preventive Controls plans, SOPs, and checklists that fit your specific operation and products. We handle HACCP, SQF, GMP, and GFSI-aligned standards like BRC and FSSC 22000, plus FSMA Preventive Controls, FSMA 204 Traceability, USDA and FDA requirements, recall programs, and environmental monitoring. It’s all built into one integrated compliance system, not just a bunch of loose binders collecting dust.
We focus on giving Hancock facilities food safety programs that work in your day-to-day operations and hold up when auditors come knocking. Using tested workflows and templates, we create systems that minimize risks, protect your customers, and help your business grow. When you work with our Hancock Food Safety Consultants, you’ll see:
We help Hancock businesses turn food safety systems into everyday practice. Our consultants work side-by-side with your QA, operations, and leadership teams to put procedures in place, train your staff, and make sure everything’s working before audit time. With FoodReady’s mobile platform, you can handle checklists, log floor checks, track environmental monitoring trends, and manage traceability, keeping all your audit evidence organized and complete. This collaborative approach means you’ll always have expert help when questions come up or challenges arise.
FoodReady’s AI-powered Food Safety Management System does more than just check compliance boxes. It makes recordkeeping easier, strengthens your preventive controls, and delivers AI-driven insights backed by expert guidance. Hancock facilities get a streamlined, smart system that’s audit-ready every single day.
FoodReady’s AI HACCP Builder offers pre-built templates, cutting HACCP plan development from hours to minutes.
FoodReady’s AI Assistant creates and automates SOPs and checklists, detecting missed tasks and ensuring protocol compliance
Our AI Assistant offers real-time tracking of production, inventory, and costs, enhancing efficiency and reducing compliance problems
FoodReady’s AI provides full traceability by linking ingredients to final products, facilitating rapid recalls and efficient audits
Reduce manual effort and increase transparency with AI-powered automatic management and updates of supplier documents
AI-powered dashboards offer real-time KPI monitoring and safety incident alerts for timely intervention.
The steps we take to help our Hancock clients pass a certification audit:
Gap Assessment
We tour your facility (on-site or virtually) to review process flows, zoning, controls, and documentation. Deliverable: a prioritized action plan highlighting critical-path items that impact audit readiness.
We build complete documentation packages: HACCP/FSMA PC plans, SOPs/PRPs, and control programs including Allergen Control, Supplier Approval, Recall, and Traceability. All systems include records management, forms/logs, and version control.
Environmental Monitoring
Program
We implement zone mapping, swab frequency schedules, and pathogen strategies for RTE or high-risk operations. Digital tools simplify scheduling, data capture, and trend analysis—so you’re always ahead of your auditor.
We will deliver the best job with the best team.
Here are a few of the most frequently asked questions by our valuable customers related to Hancock Food Safety Consulting Services
A consultant makes sure your food safety program meets all certification and regulatory requirements while fitting the specific needs of small and mid-sized Hancock operations.
We work with dairy producers, meat processors, bakeries, breweries, and food distributors throughout Hancock and the Upper Peninsula.
Yes. We’ll review what went wrong, fix the root causes, put corrective actions in place, and run mock audits so you can come back stronger and achieve compliance.
Absolutely. We create FSMA Preventive Controls plans, build FSMA 204 traceability systems, and set up recordkeeping that meets FDA requirements.
Yes. We develop GMP-based programs for warehouses and distributors, including sanitation, supplier approval, and recall systems to keep logistics operations compliant and ready for audits.
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