Achieve Safe Quality Food (SQF) certification with expert gap assessments, SQF code implementation, documentation development, and audit coaching for SQF Level 2 and Level 3.
Calgary is a national hub for beef, packaged meat, and feed-grain processing, with deep ties to Alberta's livestock industry.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation
Alberta Health Services — Calgary Zone
When you engage Iyarkai for sqf support in Calgary, we map every requirement back to the specific regulator most likely to inspect or audit your facility — so you spend less time guessing and more time building a compliant operation.
Iyarkai Scientific Consultation is Calgary's trusted partner for sqf certification. As Alberta's largest city and a major food-industry hub, Calgary is home to a growing number of food manufacturers, processors, importers, and exporters who rely on expert food safety compliance to access domestic and international markets. Our experienced consultants bring hands-on regulatory knowledge - including CFIA, SFCR, FDA FSMA, and leading GFSI certification schemes - directly to your Calgary facility. Whether you need to develop your first sqf certification or strengthen an existing program ahead of a regulatory inspection or retailer audit, Iyarkai delivers measurable results.
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Contact Us TodaySQF is the GFSI scheme of choice across most of Calgary's food manufacturing base, largely because the big North American retailers and foodservice distributors that Alberta processors sell into ask for it by name. For the city's meat-adjacent and prepared-food manufacturers, SQF certification work centres on translating an existing CFIA-oriented Preventive Control Plan into SQF Code Edition 9's structure, appointing and training an SQF practitioner, and surviving the site audit's focus on operational evidence over paperwork.
An employee with HACCP training who completes the SQF requirements — the role owns the food safety plan, validates and verifies it, and manages the system between audits. In smaller Calgary plants it is usually the QA lead wearing another hat; the mistake is treating it as a title rather than allocated hours. We train your practitioner on the Code and set up the routines the role genuinely requires.
Well-prepared first-time sites commonly land in the 'Good' band (86-95); failing usually traces to a handful of patterns — unvalidated CCP limits, internal audits that never happened, missing environmental monitoring in ready-to-eat areas, and records gaps in the weeks before the audit. Our mock audit six to eight weeks out targets exactly those, leaving time to close findings properly rather than cosmetically.
A GFSI-recognized certification scheme covering food safety and (optionally) food quality, widely required by major North American retailers.
8 to 16 weeks of preparation prior to a third-party certification audit.
SQF Institute / GFSI