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Azzule Begins Offering Core Support Services

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) has had a profound impact on food companies. While large growers, packers, shippers, importers, and buyers have handled compliance with the new law relatively easily, smaller entities, especially importers and others that need to meet the demands of the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP), might find themselves without the personnel or Qualified Individual (QI) necessary to monitor the food safety of their suppliers.

These entities may be torn between two untenable solutions: either train a current employee with the food safety knowledge to function as their QI or hire a new employee that has the training and experience necessary to serve in that role. Fortunately, there is another way.

Azzule’s Core Support is a program that allows companies to hire Azzule’s experts to serve as their QI. Utilizing Azzule’s platform, our personnel help you to develop your FSVP Program, contact your suppliers, and then monitor their audits, lab testing, and other documents to meet the specific food safety requirements related to FSVP. Depending on the size of your company, you may be able to outsource FSVP to Azzule for less money than it would cost to absorb your own employee’s salary and benefits. Our representatives can provide multi-lingual support in English, Spanish, French, and Mandarin to facilitate communications with suppliers around the world and, in so doing, ease your mind about reviewing food safety documentation.

You handle many tasks, but if you take on too many, you can’t do them all well. Don’t let food safety monitoring become “the straw that broke the camel’s back.” Contact Azzule for more information at compliance@azzule.com or at 805.862.4219.