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Compliance Made Practical.

Food Safety. FDA Compliance. U.S. Import. Quality Systems. Audits. Training.

SURU Compliance helps businesses understand what applies, close the gaps, and build food safety and quality systems that hold up in a real operation. We do not stop at the assessment — we write the programs, train your team, and stay with you through implementation.

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Compliance Made Practical

Start with compliance.Grow with confidence.

We assess the operation, identify the gaps, build the programs, write the documentation, train your team and help you implement it.

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What the film shows

Regulatory subjects a food business has to hold in mind at once — 21 CFR 117, FSMA, HACCP, FSVP, GMP, preventive controls, SQF, BRCGS, organic, Form 483, allergens, traceability, recall and sanitation — are scattered across the frame and then resolve into an ordered list. Six practice areas appear around a lifecycle ring: food safety, FDA and FSMA, U.S. import and FSVP, quality systems, audit readiness and training. A band shows a manufacturing plant, a retail store and a container yard connected by a single path, with one shipment travelling along it. A facility plan is swept by a scan line and three zones raise gap markers while a checklist reviews process and hazards, sanitation, allergen control, supplier approval, records and training. Documents then arrive and stack, each one named and ticked: Food Safety Plan, HACCP plan, SOPs and policies, FSVP file, allergen program, sanitation program, CAPA program, and recall and traceability. A presenter sends pulses to seven seats, which light in turn, over the subjects HACCP, PCQI, FSVP and internal auditing. A readiness checklist completes beside a filling gauge reading audit ready, above the standards GMP, GFSI, SQF, BRCGS and organic. The film closes on: start with compliance, grow with confidence.

Motion is reduced in your system settings, so the film is shown as a still frame rather than played. What it shows, and what the narration says, are written out below.

SURU Compliance is an independent private consulting company. We are not a government agency, a certification body, a law firm, or a licensed customs broker, and we do not guarantee regulatory approvals, inspection outcomes or certification decisions.

What we do

Eight practices, one team.

Each of these is a full practice with its own page. If none of them is obviously yours, start with a conversation instead — working out which requirements actually apply is usually the first piece of real work anyway.

  • Food Safety Consulting

    FDA, FSMA, HACCP, preventive controls, compliance programs and the food safety systems that hold them together.

    • FSMA
    • HACCP
    • Preventive controls
    • Food safety plans
    Food safety consulting

  • U.S. Import & FSVP

    Import compliance, supplier verification, FSVP and support for bringing a product into the U.S. market.

    • FSVP
    • Import requirements
    • Supplier documentation
    U.S. import services

  • Retail & Grocery

    Food safety and regulatory support for retailers, grocery stores, foodservice and multi-location operations.

    • Food Code
    • Store audits
    • Multi-location
    Retail & grocery

  • Manufacturing

    Food safety, quality, GMP, FSMA and certification readiness for manufacturers and their supply chains.

    • GMP / cGMP
    • FSMA
    • Certification readiness
    Manufacturing

  • FDA Support

    Inspection readiness, Form 483 response support, corrective action and regulatory consulting when the agency is already at the door.

    • Inspection readiness
    • 483 response
    • Corrective action
    FDA compliance support

  • Audit & Certification Readiness

    GMP, GFSI-recognized schemes, SQF, BRCGS, organic and other audit preparation — readiness work, not the certificate itself.

    • GFSI-recognized
    • SQF
    • BRCGS
    • Organic
    Certification readiness

  • Quality Assurance

    QA systems, CAPA, supplier approval, specifications and the document control that makes the rest of it auditable.

    • QA systems
    • CAPA
    • Supplier approval
    • Specifications
    Quality assurance

  • Training

    Customized food safety, regulatory and quality training for the people who have to run the system every day.

    • HACCP
    • PCQI
    • FSVP
    • Internal auditing
    Training programs

How we work

We don’t just identify the problem. We help build the solution.

Plenty of consultants will hand you a findings report. A findings report is not a food safety program, and a business that has just been told what is wrong is not yet any closer to being ready. Six steps, and you are not left alone at any of them.

  1. Assess

    Walk the operation, understand the products and processes, and see what is actually happening rather than what the binder says.

  2. Identify gaps

    Determine which requirements apply, then name the distance between them and where the operation stands today.

  3. Build

    Develop the programs and write the plans, SOPs, policies and records against your verified process.

  4. Train

    Teach the people who will run it — operators, supervisors, QA and leadership — so the system survives contact with a shift.

  5. Implement

    Stay with it through rollout, because a program handed over at the door is a program that quietly stops being used.

  6. Verify

    Audit it internally, close findings at the root cause, and keep the system ready for the next inspection or audit cycle.

We write it. We build it. We train your team. We help you implement it.

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Our experience

Businesses of every size, and problems at every stage.

We have helped businesses navigate FDA inspections, Form 483 observations, regulatory challenges, GMP audits, audits against GFSI-recognized schemes, and the implementation of working quality assurance and food safety systems.

Some of that work starts before a company has made anything at all. Some of it starts the week after an inspection. Both are normal, and neither is a bad place to begin.

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We help companies

  • Prepare for FDA inspections
  • Respond to FDA 483 observations
  • Develop corrective actions
  • Build CAPA systems
  • Prepare for GMP audits
  • Prepare for GFSI audits
  • Develop QA systems
  • Develop Food Safety Plans
  • Write HACCP plans
  • Develop preventive controls programs
  • Build FSVP programs
  • Develop supplier approval programs
  • Create specifications
  • Develop traceability systems
  • Create recall programs
  • Develop allergen programs
  • Create sanitation programs
  • Build environmental monitoring programs
  • Write SOPs
  • Write policies
  • Create documentation systems
  • Train employees and managers
  • Train QA teams and leadership
  • Implement the systems we develop

FDA & audit support

When the inspection has already happened.

Some of this work is planned a year out. Some of it starts with a phone call on a Tuesday afternoon. Both are things we do.

  • FDA inspections

    Mock inspections, records readiness, and preparing the people who will be interviewed — before the investigator arrives rather than during.

  • FDA Form 483 observations

    A Form 483 lists inspectional observations; it is not a final agency determination. We help review the observations, get to root cause and prepare a credible written response.

  • GMP audits

    Current good manufacturing practice against 21 CFR Part 117 Subpart B, assessed the way an auditor will assess it.

  • GFSI-recognized schemes

    Readiness for an audit against a GFSI-recognized scheme. GFSI benchmarks schemes — it does not certify anyone, and neither do we.

  • Organic readiness

    Organic system plans, documentation and recordkeeping. The certification decision rests with a USDA-accredited certifying agent.

  • QA systems

    Specifications, supplier approval, document control, complaint handling and the verification that ties them together.

  • CAPA

    Corrective and preventive action that closes at the cause instead of re-recording the same finding next cycle.

  • Internal audits

    Finding it yourself first — the cheapest possible place to find it.

We provide preparation, response support and corrective action support. We cannot and do not guarantee an inspection outcome, and no party outside FDA can “close” a Form 483. Certification decisions rest solely with the accredited certification body or, for organic, the USDA-accredited certifying agent.

Who we help

Credible for a national organization. Approachable for a first facility.

The same regulations reach a four-person operation and a multi-site manufacturer. What changes is how much structure the answer needs — not whether the question applies.

  • Startups & small businesses

    You are not too small to need this, and you are not too small for us. Often the work is simply establishing which requirements apply to you at all — and, just as usefully, which do not.

  • Growing brands

    The point where a retailer, a co-manufacturer or a first export order starts asking for documentation that does not exist yet. That is a normal place to be, and a solvable one.

  • Established companies

    An existing system that needs to be strengthened, re-based against current requirements, or brought through an inspection or a certification audit.

  • Multi-site & national operations

    One standard applied consistently across sites, with the internal audit and verification structure to show that it actually is.

Industries we support

Wherever the product is made, moved or sold.

Every tile goes to the page that covers that segment in depth.

All industries

Why SURU

Compliance should work in the real world.

A program that only exists on paper passes nothing. It has to be practical enough that a supervisor on a Sunday shift can actually execute it — which is a design constraint, not an afterthought.

We write it

Plans, SOPs, policies and specifications written against your verified process — not a template with your name typed into the header.

We build it

The whole program, including the unglamorous parts: records, verification, document control and the routines that keep it current.

We train your team

Operators, supervisors, QA and leadership. A program nobody has been taught is a document, not a system.

We help you implement it

We stay through rollout. Most of what fails in compliance fails at implementation, not at design.

Requirements traced to the rule

Where a requirement comes from a statute or a CFR part, we say which one — so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

Clear about what we are not

We are not a government agency, a certification body, a law firm, or a licensed customs broker. We say so on every page where it could matter.

And what you actually receive.

Scope varies by engagement. These are the artefacts the work produces.

  • Gap assessment report
  • Food Safety Plan
  • HACCP plan
  • SOPs and policies
  • FSVP file
  • Supplier approval program
  • Specifications
  • CAPA program
  • Recall plan
  • Traceability procedure
  • Internal audit program
  • Training materials and records

Origin ascent

It starts at one point — and it does not stop at the audit.

SURU means start. The amber dot is where a programme begins; the line is the operation it then has to survive. The check rises past the vertex on purpose — readiness is a state you hold, not a box you tick.

  1. 01

    Supplier

    FSVP and supplier approval — verified before the first shipment.

  2. 02

    Manufacturing

    HACCP and preventive controls written against your real process flow.

  3. 03

    Distribution

    Sanitary transport, traceability and recall readiness.

  4. 04

    Retail & foodservice

    Health department and inspection readiness across every unit.

  5. 05

    The customer

    The only place any of it is actually measured.

When the auditor arrives, or the inspector, or your customer’s supplier team — nothing should be a surprise.

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Start the conversation

Need help with FDA, food safety, U.S. import, audits, certification readiness or your QA system?

Talk to SURU Compliance. Tell us the operation, the products and the deadline. We will tell you what applies, what does not, and what it takes to be ready — before you commit to anything.

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Nationwide, onsite and remotely
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SURU Compliance is an independent private consulting company — not a government agency, and not a licensed customs broker. We cannot guarantee that any shipment will be admitted.