FOOD SAFETY CONSULTANTS

Welcome to MacEwan Associates. Our highly experienced team of food safety consultants have over 25 years’ experience providing a range of food safety consultancy services to businesses across Scotland and Northern England.

We offer an extensive range of services to businesses of all sizes including ongoing advice and support helping you to ensure that your business is compliant with all the latest food safety rules and regulations. These services include mentoring to businesses and their staff who are looking to become accredited in either BRCGS or SALSA, support in developing new policies and procedures, Internal Audit or Supplier Audits on a businesses behalf and also, training.

More information on our services can be found below.

Our services.

  • Internal and Supplier Auditing

    Our Auditing services are tailored to meet your business’s needs. As trained auditors we can conduct Internal Food Safety Audits of your business, undertake Supplier Audits on your behalf, support your own internal auditors or even provide Auditor training and mentoring to your staff.

  • Food and Drink Product Development

    Ideal for businesses looking for support in either just a small part or the whole of the food development process; this may be via sharing our knowledge, providing insight on how to reduce your costs or advising on final labelling and packaging as well as everything in between.

  • Mentoring for SALSA Certification

    As SALSA Mentors we offer support to businesses looking to gain their site certification. Our support comes in a variety of forms tailored to meet your business’s needs, this may be by offering advice and knowledge on the latest SALSA standard or via the creation of a new, bespoke food management strategy.

  • Mentoring for BRCGS Certification

    As BRCGS Mentors we offer support to businesses looking to gain their site certification; this may be via sharing our knowledge of the latest standards and how best to implement a new food management strategy, or through conducting an internal audit so that you and your staff know what to expect on the day.

  • Food Safety Compliance and Technical Services

    Ideal for businesses looking for either one off or on-going support in interpreting the latest in food safety legislation. Helping you put in place the necessary procedures or conduct the right audits to ensure your business is compliant at every step.

  • Online or On-site Food Hygiene Training

    Food Hygiene and Food Safety training is a legal requirement for all food handlers. Courses are available via Zoom or a similar software, are perfect for both small and large groups and can be tailored to meet your businesses requirements.

  • Free From Foods and Allergen Services

    Our Free From and Allergen services are tailored to meet your requirements. We offer training both online, on-site at your business’s location on on-site in Edinburgh and consultancy services providing advice and recommendations on food management systems, business policies, appropriate labelling and more.

  • Free Initial Consultation

    We know as a business you’re not always certain as to which service or services you might need from us; which is why we provide a free initial consultation, where we will advise or recommend what we think might be most suitable for your business.

From our 25 years in business, we have worked across a full spectrum of different sectors within the Food and Drink Manufacturing industry, hospitality and care sector and food packaging. Below are some examples of the sectors where we have carried out our consultancy work.