QUALITY ASSURANCE & QUALITY CONTROL (QA/QC) SERVICES
BevTrac offers a full range of QA/QC services and solutions which enables our clients to achieve high quality, cost-effective, and safe products: microbial monitoring of product and facility; quality assurance audits of process and facility; quality system program development (cGMP, HACCP); Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) support services; QA/QC audits of laboratories; corrective and preventative action plans for quality deviations in winemaking process; TCA/TBA assessment and remediation services; and QA/QC training and education.
Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) Services
- cGMP audits of wineries
- Provide guidelines for cGMP program development
- Develop winery cGMP program
- cGMP training and education
- Develop cGMP corrective and preventative action plans
- Develop sanitation standard operating procedures
- Develop master sanitation schedule
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) Services
- HACCP audits of wineries
- Provide guidelines for HACCP program development
- Identify potential chemical, physical, and microbiological hazards in winemaking process
- Develop complete HACCP program for wineries
- HACCP training and education
- Develop corrective action plans for deviation from critical limit
Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Support Services
- Review FSMA requirements for wineries
- Conduct a gap assessment of your current facility and programs to identify specific areas of concern or non-compliance
- Help prepare required documents (i.e. product recall plan, process flow charts, sanitation SOPs) and monitoring forms following FDA inspection
- Provide assistance developing Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) program
TCA/TBA Assessments and Remediation Solutions
- Develop sampling plans for possible TCA/TBA taint
- Facility assessments to identity levels of TCA and TBA taint
- Development of remediation plan to reduce/eliminate TCA/TBA taint
- Follow-up sampling plans and assessments to verify reduction of TCA/TBA taint
- Develop long-term TCA/TBA management programs
- Haloanisole and Halophenol education and training
Assessment of Good Wine Laboratory Practices
- Laboratory organization and personnel responsibilities
- Custody of samples
- Calibration procedures and frequencies
- Laboratory quality control program
- Laboratory standard operating procedures
- Validation and reporting of data
- Preventative maintenance program for equipment
- Storage of records and reports
- Laboratory cGMP and safety programs