Can Quality Minar help if our buyer is in the United States or Europe?

Yes. Alongside FSSAI audit readiness, we support FSSC 22000, SQF and BRCGS certification for buyers in North America, the UK and the EU. Our technical principal holds PCQI (Preventive Controls Qualified Individual) and four years of FSQA management experience in a GFSI-certified North American plant, working within CFIA and FDA regulatory requirements.

Where are you based, and do you work outside Gujarat?

We are based in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, and work with food manufacturers across India, with on-site assessment visits and remote support for export-certification and international buyer requirements.

For global food manufacturers

Your FSSAI audit is compulsory. Score 80 and inspectors stay away for two years.

We build the food safety systems that get manufacturing plants through their mandatory third-party audit — and through FSSC 22000, SQF and BRCGS when a buyer in North America, the UK or the EU asks for one.

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FSSAI third-party audit — the threshold

Since 2019, FSSAI has required an annual third-party audit from every Central-licence manufacturer in a high-risk product category.

Score 80% or above and you are not put through an FSSAI inspection for two years.

FSSC 22000 v6.0 Lead Auditor — SGS, CQI/IRCA recognised Advanced SQF Practitioner PCQI HACCP & Allergen Management 4 years FSQA management, North America Multi-brand, multi-country protocol authorship, globally

Three conditions decide whether the audit applies to your plant

Central

Your FSSAI licence is a Central licence.

Manufacturing

Your kind of business is manufacturing or processing.

High-risk

Your product sits in a notified high-risk category.

All three

Then it is annual and compulsory — the only question is what you score. How the scoring works →

What we do

One day on site

Gap Assessment

We read your actual records and tell you your predicted score before the auditor does.

from ₹35,000 + GST

6–10 weeks

FSSAI Audit Readiness

System built, staff trained, then a full mock audit scored the way the real one will be.

from ₹1,20,000 + GST

4–6 months

Export Certification

FSSC 22000, SQF or BRCGS readiness for plants whose buyer has asked for a certificate.

from ₹2,25,000 + GST, excl. audit fee

Monthly

Retained FSQA

The food safety department a growing plant needs and cannot yet justify hiring.

from ₹25,000 / month + GST

What each engagement includes →

Why us

Audited, not just trained to audit

Preparing for an auditor is a different skill from having sat on the other side of the table while one worked through your records. We know which document an auditor opens first, which answer from an operator ends the conversation, and which corrective action closes a finding rather than merely responding to it.

And we learned it somewhere harder than a single-brand plant — a co-manufacturing site where multiple customers each had their own specifications, their own audits and their own tolerance for error.

Who you would be working with →

Four years running FSQA at a co-manufacturing plant in Ontario producing for multiple brands at once — overlapping specification sets, allergen and label profiles and customer audit regimes, all on one set of lines.
Fixed scope, fixed fee. No hourly billing. If your gaps turn out smaller than expected, we say so and quote less.
Certification body fees are never routed through us. You pay the CB directly, and we always show the split.
Documentation built around your floor, not a template — because a manual describing someone else's process fails the moment an auditor asks an operator to explain it.

FAQ

Questions plants and buyers ask us first

Is a third-party FSSAI audit really compulsory for my plant?

Yes, if you meet all three conditions: your FSSAI licence is a Central licence, your kind of business is manufacturing or processing, and your product sits in a notified high-risk category. If all three apply, the audit is annual and compulsory under FSSAI's 2019 order.

What score do we need to avoid an FSSAI inspection for two years?

80% or above on the third-party audit. Scoring 80 or higher means FSSAI does not put your plant through a further inspection for two years.

Can you help if our buyer is in the United States or Europe?

Yes. Alongside FSSAI audit readiness, we support FSSC 22000, SQF and BRCGS certification for buyers in North America, the UK and the EU. Our technical principal holds PCQI and four years of FSQA management experience in a GFSI-certified North American plant, working within CFIA and FDA regulatory requirements.

Do you charge by the hour?

No. Every engagement is fixed-scope and fixed-fee, agreed in writing before work starts. Certification body audit fees, where they apply, are paid by you directly to the certification body.