The MEP National Network offers a full range of food safety and quality services specific to food manufacturers including on-site training and employee development. Services our experts provide range from technical project assistance to developing and implementing an effective food safety and quality system enabling continuous improvement in your facilities.

Food safety experts across the Network have also created a guide that looks at the FDA’s “Blueprint for the Future” and what may come next through the lens of the FDA’s four pillars for the New Era of Smarter Food Safety. MEP Centers can help in areas such as:

• Corrective and Preventive Actions: The MEP National Network’s consultants can help you deal with internal deviations or customer complaints.
• Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA): MEP experts provide guidance such as gap analysis and consulting to help you meet regulatory compliance for FSMA. We can help you develop and implement a food safety plan to ensure your facilities are in compliance.
• Food Safety Plans: Plans are now required for most food manufacturing companies. We can assist you with developing food safety plans and help you understand how to fully document and implement plans.
• Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance Training: MEP Centers provide FSPCA training using the "standardized curriculum" recognized by the Food and Drug Administration, so you know how to meet FSMA requirements.
• Food Safety Training: We conduct employee training for all levels including new employee training, annual refresher training or any other training your company may need.
• Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI): We provide consulting to certify plants required to have a third party GFSI audit. MEP Centers can help you with consulting services, training and implementing a plan to meet GFSI requirements and standards including Safe Quality Foods, British Retail Consortium, FSSC 22000.
• Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)/Sanitation: The MEP National Network can provide you with GMP training, consulting and implementation to confirm that your company is operating at the highest standards and to ensure the safe production of food.
• Internal Audits: MEP Centers can conduct or assist with your internal audit programs.
• Risk Assessments: We provide risk assessments for a wide range of areas or programs at facilities. For example, our experts can perform risk assessments for your facility and environment, the introduction of new or different types of allergens, raw materials or operation processes.

Blogs

Video: Heroes of American Manufacturing – Hope & Main, Making Dreams Reality

July 25, 2023

Katie Rapp

Hope & Main, a Rhode Island culinary business incubator, helps make dreams reality for people who want to start or own a food or beverage business. One of the

Video: Heroes of American Manufacturing – Sweet Grass Dairy

February 22, 2023

Katie Rapp

People who really want to know where their food comes from often turn to small food manufacturers. Jessica Little, co-owner of Sweet Grass Dairy in Thomasville

Manufacturing Reports

What We’ve Learned From The FDA’s New Era Of Smarter Food Safety And How It Will Impact What’s Coming Next

October 2021

Author

MEP National Network

The MEP National Network offers a full range of food safety and quality services specific to food manufacturers including on-site training and employee development. Services our experts provide range from technical project assistance to developing and implementing an effective food safety and quality system enabling continuous improvement in your facilities.

Best Practices and Current State of Manufacturing

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Shale Gas: A Game Changer for U.S. Manufacturing

July 2014

Author

Mark Barteau, Sridhar Kota

A country is only as strong as its capacity to build. Managed properly, the availability of low-cost shale gas could catalyze a renaissance in U.S. manufacturing, revitalizing the chemical industry and enhancing the global competitiveness of energy-intensive manufacturing sectors such as aluminum, steel, paper, glass, and food. This report summarizes and expands upon the University of Michigan-sponsored daylong Symposium "Shale Gas: A Game- Changer for American Manufacturing".

Capital and Cost, Current State of Manufacturing, Education and Workforce, Federal and Industry Collaboration, Innovation, R&D and IP, Regulatory and Policy Recommendations and Sustainability

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