ANNABRAHMA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
AnnaBrahma Consultancy services (ABCS) is a consultancy firm championed by a group of highly motivated & experienced professionals & scientists in the field of Food Technology, Biochemistry, and Food Microbiology trained at CFTRI and renowned universities with a collective experience nationally and internationally of more than 100+ years in various domains like:
- Food safety implementation and Audits
- Food Quality and Hygiene Training
- Food safety documentation
- 3rdparty Quality audits as per FSSAI, IFS and FSMS etc.
- Food testing lab set up (Chemical, Analytical and Microbiology)
- Food analysis and regulatory guidance
- Development and standardisation of lab documentation
- ISO 17025, ISO 22000 in- house trainings
- Guidance on NABL and FSSAI accreditation
- Food Technology
- Food Product Development
- Food Product Design
- Basic and Applied Nutrition
AnnaBrahma is committed to providing food safety, food process design and allied scientific support to clients serving an array of requirements from farm to fork. Championed by professionals with experience in food industries, food testing laboratories, basic research and applied research, AnnaBrahma brings easy to use solutions, tailor-made for each client. Be it setting processes, adhering to compliances or simply quality assurance, AnnaBrahma educates, empowers and provides our clients with end to end hand holding.
FOOD SAFETY WITH ANNABRAHMA
Food Safety is a specific science which helps prevent food borne illnesses.
It’s a key part of AnnaBrahma’ s consulting practice. We bring a unique perspective to food safety by combining extensive, practical hands-on experience, with a clear understanding of the business imperatives that are crucial to our client’s success. We provide these services to processors/manufacturers, food service operators, retailers, distributors, restaurants, catering units, QSR’s etc.
OUR COMPREHENSIVE FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM STEPS:
AnnaBrahma’ s FSMS program incorporates key steps that every company implementing the same will need to follow.
The 8 steps comprehensive program comprises of
- Step 1: GAP-ANALYSIS– Evaluate Client Facilities and measure the existing gaps with respect to the applicable regulatory standards. This report is supported by detailed score and photographs of the site and processes followed.
- Step 2: Apply Appropriate Standards to Fit Your Risk Model based on the outcome of Step 1
- Step 3: Create the Custom Organization Process on Paper, Assign Roles & Responsibilities & Agree on a Strategy
- Step 4: Implement Your Food Safety Management System
- Step 5: Training, Training and More Training
- Step 6: Develop Internal Documentation
- Step 7: Trial Audit
- Step 8: Formal Audit
RESTAURANT & CATERING FOOD SAFETY CONSULTING
When opening a new restaurant, whether it’s your first or your 100th, there are many factors that must be considered. Food safety is a major concern that can affect your operations on many levels and should never be ignored. There are many ways to go about preventing food borne illness within your restaurant facilities.
ABCS provides services from routine inspections, documentation, laboratory sampling and testing guidance, staff training and developing a HACCP program to encompass the most up to date food regulations implemented in the country. In the worst case scenario, ABCS provides extensive crisis
Management support by investigation of the crisis/complaint in the case of food borne illness and/or outbreak and supporting with a corrective and preventive action plan, rigorous training and unannounced audit support.
FOOD INSPECTION SERVICES
Remembering always that our focus is to prevent problems before they occur, inspection and education are central to our consultation services. Our techniques rigorously implement the applicable HACCP principles, GMPs, and SSOPs. We can assess plant or kitchen facilities and process flow, with an eye to regulatory compliance and cross contamination prevention.
We utilize rigorous inspection techniques to identify problems, educate employees and solve sanitation problems before they lead to an outbreak scenario. We use HACCP principles which focus on temperature control, cross-contamination and employee hygiene. We also evaluate Standard Sanitary Operating Procedures (SSOP) and Good Management Practices (GMPs) while assessing equipment/utensil condition, water/sewage systems, garbage disposal, pest control and structural components (walls, floors, ceilings, lighting and ventilation). Food Sampling and Laboratory Testing.
We provide comprehensive analysis plan of food, water and other products to be tested in labs. Laboratory test results is a measure of accurately determining wholesomeness/adulteration, shelf life, compliance with regulations and how well food service employees are handling the food.
MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYEE TRAINING on food safety
Our certified instructors can provide your organization with internally developed Food hygiene training course. Our instructors use slides, videos and demonstrations to augment lectures and classroom discussions. Hands-on task-oriented sanitation training can also be provided for your food service employees.
PEST CONTROL EVALUATION AND AUDITING
Any state-of-the-art Integrated Pest Management program is comprised of 3 basic principles: good structure, good sanitation and a well-qualified Pest Control Operator (PCO). We can customize a standard of performance for pest control to help monitor your Integrated Pest Management program and to assist in the bidding process and vendor selection.
AnnaBrahma and Food testing lab set up
FOOD ANALYSIS AND REGULATORY GUIDANCE (CHEMICAL, ANALYTICAL AND MICROBIOLOGY) AND RELATED SUPPORT
Laboratory testing is an important process whether it is an internal in house lab supporting your products and processes or a 3rd party external lab, lab testing relies on scientific analysis to identify problems with food products. It provides analytical data on the quality of a product or production process to support quality control in the HACCP system. The objective of quality control is to identify contaminants in raw material, or contamination after a product is produced and before it is placed on the market.
Additionally, laboratory testing is important for the research and development of new products, including, for example, the choice of ingredients or components, the design of food processing, shelf-life studies and sensory evaluation of products.
Another benefit of laboratory testing is compliance with regulations of the country (FSSAI) Food regulation is designed to protect public health and the safety of consumers
AnnaBrahma Consultancy Services support in Analytical Lab set up.
- At ABCS, a team works together for you to shape your dreams into creating a world class lab. So if you are a food producer, investor, facilities manager, Engineer or contractor who is planning, budgeting, or setting up a new lab or expanding existing facilities, we can help with tailored solutions that meet your specific requirements
- The sequence starts from layout planning and design as per ISO 17025 norms keeping in mind environmental and safety practices. Microbiological labs are also designed keeping the clean room conditions in mind.
- We can help coordinate the procurement, delivery, and installation of a fully operational laboratory.
- You gain access to a staff of experts experienced in new lab setup, as well as sourcing for the majority of your equipment and Instrumentation needs.
We do not stop at this but also ……. - Continue with providing trained staff or training to appointed staff to build staff competency
- Providing consultancy in creating your Management systems as per ISO 22000 and ISO 17025 systems.
- We hold your hand to develop the scope of testing.
- Standardize your test methods to ensure consistency.
- Guidance towards NABL application and training for facing the audits.
- Develop a comprehensive quality control program
AnnaBrahma and Food PRODUCT DESIGN
- AnnaBrahma offers ideation reports to help you crystalize your plans for the food business of your dreams. We help you develop basic and advanced ideation reports which gives you a road map for product development, testing, consumer feedback and product launches.
- We offer basic and advanced scientific reviews on the areas of food product design and nutrition design for new food products.
- AnnaBrahma offers customer communication content for new products designed.
- Customer survey programs with statistical analysis is also a key service helping clients to understand their customer base without bias and develop insights into cross-selling products within various target consumer groups.