Food Retail and Grocery

Elevate retail food safety with NSF. We offer audits, compliance, and training for a secure brand and satisfied customers.

Safeguard your customers and protect your brand by improving retail food safety — from store audits and supplier management to regulatory and labeling compliance. Look to NSF for best practices and sustainability in your retail and grocery operations with trusted auditing, certification, advisory services, and food safety training.

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Food Risk Management Consulting Services
Protect your brand, safeguard public health, mitigate risk and speed recovery in the event of a food crisis.
Food Fraud/Defense Consulting Services
Reduce the risk of food fraud and product recalls by bolstering food fraud awareness, detection and prevention.
Food Labeling and Specifications Management Consulting Services
Reduce risk, safeguard your brand, and meet local and global food labeling and product specification requirements.
Developing Food Product for Commercial Shelf Life
Work with experienced food technologists to develop high quality food and beverage products that meet quality and food safety standards.
Sensory Testing
Better understand the appeal of your food and beverage products with comprehensive consumer testing services.
Food Regulatory Consulting Services
Get practical, professional advice to address a wide range of food regulatory matters.
Outsourced Technical Support
Take advantage of NSF’s network of experts to assist your business, short- or long-term.
Due Diligence
Uncover potential risks and establish fair value during a merger and acquisition.
Food Safety Gap Assessment
Understand the Gaps in your Food Safety Management System
Food Safety Culture
Make food safety a way of life by embedding key values and behaviors in your team.
Food Safety Supplier Management
Better manage the quality and safety of your supply chain in the food and beverage industry.
Food Safety Policy and Procedure Development
Create and implement clear and efficient program documents that meet requirements and help ensure food safety and quality.
FSMA Readiness
Ensure your business and facility comply with the U.S. FDA’s requirements for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
Enhanced Training and Wearable Learning
Hands-free smartglasses with NSF EyeSucceed, powered by Teamviewer, equip workers to learn faster and safer, so they become proficient faster.
Checklists, Self-Audits and Inventory Management
Wearable technology delivers efficient hands-free access for daily manager tasks.
Augmented Reality With Corrective Intelligence
First-of-its-kind artificial intelligence recognizes mistakes and instantly alerts the user to eliminate human error.
Equipment Maintenance and Remote Assistance
Smartglass solutions enable employees to install, set up and maintain equipment, while remote assistance connects workers with real-time support.
Virtual Audits and Next-Gen Livestream Communications
Enable real-time remote interaction for rich information sharing between frontline workers and third-party auditors or corporate colleagues.
Grocery Food Safety Evaluation
Improve your food safety management program, protect your customers, and your reputation.
Sustainability Strategy Solutions
Achieve your organization’s sustainability goals with expert guidance to support your journey.
Supply Chain Sustainability and ESG Management
Develop, monitor, and report on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) compliance in your supply chain with expertise from NSF.
Product Environmental Performance
Calculate the environmental impact of products or services to achieve your sustainability goals with expert advice from NSF.
ESG Reporting
Demonstrate your commitment to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) efforts with sustainability expertise from NSF.
Climate Action Solutions
Build your Climate Action Plan, calculate your greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and assess climate risks with sustainability expertise from NSF.
Switch Food Safety Audits to NSF
Unleash the potential of your food safety system by choosing NSF, a pioneer in food safety audits for over 80 years.
FSMA 204 Traceability Rule
Initial Scoping and Readiness Assessment
Specialist Market Insight
Expand your reach and take advantage of new market opportunities - without delays.
Food Safety Audit Discovery Program
Experience the benefits of independent food safety audits with NSF.
Organic Certification Advice
Navigate organic certification to the NOP and other global organic standards with expert advice from NSF.
CDP Reporting
From scope 3 emissions, verification standards to the climate change module, we're ready to support your Carbon Disclosure Project – or CDP - reporting requirements. If you need to improve your CDP score, or want help with CDP project management, our expert team can provide guidance at every step.
Food Safety, Quality and Standards Training
Whatever your training need, we can meet it. Our diverse portfolio of in-person, online and instructor-led virtual courses range from introductory courses to highly technical, hands-on programs.

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Quality and Compliance Software

If you’re looking for a solution to confidently manage complex and critical data - including supplier compliance, regulatory requirements, and environmental reporting - take a look at NSF’s TraQtion cloud-based software.
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Report: Guide for Food Safety Professionals

Discover the quick win-wins and longer-term efforts that add up to a winning food safety strategy for grocery, convenience and supermarket operations. Our report provides practical advice from NSF experts on how to build an effective market-leading food safety program.
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How NSF Can Help You

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