FISA offers several auditing options. They can be general or specific and they can cover an entire operation or a single process or commodity line. Coordinated quality system audits with in-depth environmental sanitation inspections on a regular frequency are the best way to prevent food protection insults.

FISA audits are intended to find, evaluate, correct and prevent recurrence of any sanitation or food safety deficiency. FISA professionals are trained to look for and see physical, chemical, biological and operational oversights that are not always evident to others. Health hazards are always the top priority with any FISA detection procedure.

FISA is prepared to rate or grade audits using any one of several existing scoring procedures or we can develop a rating system specific to any individual plant or operation. One system does not fit all because acceptable performance is not the same in warehouses, food operations, pharmaceutical plants and animal feed facilities. FISA can fit the rating system (Numerical, lettering A, B, C, or narrative) to the operation.

In addition to identifying conditions that may be detrimental to a food operation, FISA professionals make recommendations for practical solutions. They are qualified to do this because in their previous first hand experience they have encountered and solved most of the same deficiencies.

FISA Audits evaluate:

• Cleaning results, methods, tools and materials.

• Quality System and Food Safety programs.

• Food protection methods and results from procurement through the shipping process.

• Prevention and control of foreign substance contamination.

• Operational practices compared to the Good Manufacturing Practice Regulations.

• The pest control procedures and results.

• The hygiene and behavior of personnel.