SQF Institute

Food safety risks can emerge anywhere at your site. Give employees across departments the practical knowledge to recognize risks early and take action before they become costly problems. The SQF Food Safety Risk Management Collection includes seven online, self-paced courses covering critical areas of risk, with best practices your teams can apply immediately. Build a stronger, more risk-aware food safety culture. Explore the courses today. 🔗: https://hubs.ly/Q04xRFZs0

Think back to the person who first introduced you to food safety or encouraged your career. You can do the same for someone else.   This program helps students launch careers in food safety with awards of up to $3,000, plus the funding and opportunity to attend SQF Unites 2027 in Tucson, where they'll meet industry leaders, expand their professional network, and experience the SQF community firsthand.   Another set of recipients receive $1,000 and complimentary SQF auditor coursework. Know a promising student in food or agricultural science? Encourage them to apply by October 9, 2026 Apply Here: https://hubs.ly/Q04yCcj20

The retail supply chain just drew a line in the sand. Agents and brokers without third-party certification are on the wrong side of it. What standard opens doors with major retailers now requiring certification? SQF can open those doors. So, how do you move from excluded to essential? Agents, brokers, traders, merchants, importers, and exporters play an increasingly central role in global supply chains. Yet many of these organizations never physically handle a product. Their influence on supplier approvals, traceability, documentation, and sourcing decisions is significant, but largely unregulated by any formal certification standard. Let's close that gap: https://hubs.ly/Q04xRHdV0

Tipsheet Tuesday! Free Tip Sheet on Conducting a Risk Assessment --dive into defining risks and organizing preventative actions for mitigating or eliminating the risks -- for more Tip Sheets, visit https://lnkd.in/eB2Wnpi9.

Change is inevitable—but how it is led can determine its impact on food safety, quality and compliance. Damien Alexander, SQF Business Representative for the Asia-Pacific region and Director of FNS, will present at the AIFST & SQF Food Safety Forum: 🔹 Food Safety Leadership and Change Management 🔹 Damien will explore what makes a change management program successful, the critical role of strong food safety leadership and how organisations can navigate change while maintaining food safety, quality, legality and compliance. A multiple food safety industry award winner, Damien has extensive experience across food safety, risk management and certification. His career has included QA management across the meat, seafood and poultry sectors, certification body management, food safety auditing, insurance, retail and work with a federal government regulator. He has also authored industry food safety standards and developed programs to meet customer, regulatory and certification requirements. 📅 13 October 2026 ⏰ 9.00am–4.30pm 📍 Novotel Sydney Olympic Park, NSW Don't miss the opportunity to attend! Explore the program and register today - https://lnkd.in/eUA6_kWG #AIFST #SQF #FoodSafety #FoodSafetyLeadership #ChangeManagement Fiona Fleming Damien Alexander SQF Institute

Need your SQF Professional Update Completed? Don't Wait. Edition 10 audits begin in January 2027. For SQF Auditors, Technical Reviewers, Consultants, and Trainers, this makes this year's Professional Update more than a re-registration requirement. It is a working preview of the changes that will shape your next audits. The four-hour SQF Professional Update covers Edition 10 Code updates, current results from the Compliance and Integrity Programs, enhancements to the SQF assessment database, GFSI benchmarking status for key modules, and a look at upcoming training and events. Participants walk away with a sharper understanding of what SQFI expects from registered professionals and practical ways to strengthen their assessment, implementation, and maintenance of the SQF System. For those adding new auditor qualifications, our Auditing the SQF Code Requirements and Auditing SQF Quality Systems courses are also open for enrollment, now fully aligned to Edition 10. The full training schedule is in the first comment. #SQF #FoodSafety #SQFEdition10

Six companies, one morning, and a single question running through every demo: How do you move food safety documentation from paper to digital without disrupting what already works? On October 14, Allera Technologies, SafetyChain Software, SGS, AuditQ, Wherefour, Inc., and Keychain will each take a dedicated 30-minute slot during the SQF Product Spotlight Day to show their tools in action, with actual software running actual workflows from data capture to compliance reporting. Rachel Anderson, SQF’s VP of Business Development and Strategy, opens the event with a briefing on where the industry stands on automation. From there, each company walks through how their platform handles the documentation challenges QA/QC managers and food safety practitioners face every day. If you have been asked to evaluate automation tools but haven't had time to compare options side by side, this is a practical way to see multiple approaches in a single sitting and ask providers directly about implementation, integration, and fit for your facility. Free, online, and open to anyone in the food safety community, with the registration link in the first comment. #FoodSafety #SQF #FoodSafetyAutomation

Edition 10 isn't a puzzle to solve. It's infrastructure we've already built, with guidance documents, checklists, training, FAQs, and the Code Selector tool, all multilingual and ready to use. We've removed the guesswork so your team can focus on execution. Access your resources now. https://hubs.ly/Q04xRD-D0 #FoodSafety #SQFCertification #Compliance #GFSI

Tipsheet Tuesday! Steps to SQF Certification. The SQF family of food safety and quality Codes are designed to meet industry, customer and regulatory requirements for all sectors of the food supply chain. There are programs for primary production, through manufacturing, distribution, storage, pet, food packaging and retail operations. We are here to assist as you need. https://lnkd.in/eASUEAYc