HACCP plan development
Product descriptions, process-flow diagrams, hazard analysis, CCP determinations, critical limits, monitoring, corrective actions, verification, and records.
National HACCP & Food Safety Consulting
Technical answers for high-consequence decisions.
When a plan, process, deviation, or regulatory finding carries real business risk, get advice grounded in food science, manufacturing reality, and regulatory expectations.
Consulting services
Strengthen the science, the logic, and the execution.
Projects are scoped around the technical question and the decision you need to make—not a generic consulting package.
HACCP plan review & gap assessment
Independent technical review of an existing plan to identify unsupported decisions, missing hazards, implementation gaps, and fragile controls.
Scientific validation
Evidence-based support for critical limits and preventive controls, including thermal and non-thermal processes, pH, time, temperature, and hurdle systems.
Deviation & product disposition support
Risk-based evaluation of process deviations, data, assumptions, product history, and potential regulatory or quality implications.
Regulatory response & CAPA
Technical support for inspectional observations, warning letters, compliance findings, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and effectiveness checks.
Food safety system implementation
Translate the plan into usable procedures, monitoring forms, verification routines, training, and management oversight.
PROCESSVALIDATIONEvidence → Control → Confidence
Process authority & validation
Controls are only as strong as the evidence behind them.
Ernest Black is a food scientist and experienced process authority for high-risk food and beverage processes. His work spans acidified and low-acid foods, juices and beverages, thermal processing, high-pressure processing, ultraviolet treatment, pH-based controls, and multi-hurdle systems.
- Challenge-study and validation strategy
- Critical-limit and process-schedule support
- Deviation evaluation and technical risk assessment
- Regulatory and customer-facing technical documentation
When to call
Before the finding becomes a crisis. Before the process becomes a promise. Before the unsupported assumption becomes the plan.
Ready when you are
Put an experienced food safety expert on the problem.
Bring us the process, the plan, the finding, or the question. We’ll help you define the next defensible step.
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