About Foodtechservices

Foodtechservices was formed in 2003 to provide a flexible, convenient and cost effective means of supplementing a company's own technical resource during times of "non routine activity" or to provide technical support to smaller food business who did not need nor could support a permanent technical or QA Manager but nevertheless needed access to such expertise to assist in their due diligence obligations and to secure customer approvals and service customer technical requirements including documentation.

The Company is headed by David Lawrence MIFST who holds a degree in Food Technology from the University of Reading and has worked in technical and operational management for over 30 years. His experience covers a wide range of food technologies including dairy, meat, fish, bakery, fruit juices, chocolate and canned foods and extends to distributors, importers and food service operators as well as manufacturers and includes the design and development of formalised Quality Management Systems to secure approval to supply retailers, leading caterers and many blue chip companies.

Prior to establishing Foodtechservices Ltd he served as Technical Director of a UK arm of a major european dairy products supplier with whom he continues to work on a consultancy basis.

The Problem

Many food companies, both large and small, have experienced the dilemma of structuring their Quality Management to ensure that they meet the expectations of their customers without over qualification of resources, excess capacity or the risks of diversion of key management or other staff from their routine QA activities. Seem familiar?

The Solution

Sub contract the non routine activity to Foodtechservices, as and when required, giving you the confidence that you are optimising your overhead whilst enabling you to respond promptly and efficiently to ad hoc and on-going demands where local resources cannot readily deliver. Tariffs are cost effective and commitments flexible so you only pay for what you use.

Examples of areas where Foodtechservices can help:-

Supplier/Internal Audits
Specification review and development
Development of HACCP based Quality Systems and Procedures towards ISO and BRC accreditation, due diligence or specific customer protocols
Investigation of and responding to customer complaints or other significant or recurrent technical issues
Independent "expert" opinion (single party) or arbitration (both parties) in the event of dispute with suppliers/customers
Crisis Management