Make your program SQF Edition 10 ready.
Edition 10 is the biggest update to the SQF Code in years: food safety culture, a stricter EMP, formal change management, and heavier core-clause scoring. Led by an SQF lead auditor who knows what each one looks like on audit day.
Five changes you have to be ready for.
Edition 10 is a structural update, not a refresh. These are the five that take real work, in the order most facilities should tackle them. Beacon carries each one already: not patched in, built in.
The headline change. Leadership commitment, employee engagement, documented communication, and periodic assessment with measurable indicators. It has the longest lead time of anything in Edition 10, so it is where the transition starts.
Explore Food safety culture
Edition 10 expects a risk-based EMP: sampling locations and frequencies justified by hazard, site-specific organisms, documented acceptance criteria, and trend analysis that catches a pattern before it becomes a finding. A schedule that looked fine under Edition 9 now has to stand up to that scrutiny.
Explore Environmental monitoring
A formal change-management clause is new. Any significant change to process, equipment, formulation, or packaging must be documented, impact-assessed against your HACCP plan and prerequisite programs, communicated to affected staff, and verified.
Explore Change management
The 100-point model stays, but core-clause findings carry heavier deductions: a Core Clause Minor now deducts 2 points and a Core Clause Major deducts 7. That changes how you prioritize internal audits, where you focus corrective action, and how your scores trend from Edition 9 to Edition 10.
Explore Core-clause scoring
Edition 10 folds cybersecurity into food defense. Connected systems that touch food safety or records now need a documented threat assessment and mitigation. The SystemPath team scopes that assessment with you, and the documentation lives alongside your food defense plan records in Beacon.
Explore Food defenseEdition 9 to Edition 10, without the scramble.
It starts with the delta in the window above: your current program read against the five changes. Every phase is built inside Beacon, and every phase ends with something your team keeps.
Gap assessment & roadmap
We score your current program against every new and modified Edition 10 clause and sequence the work: high-impact items first, quick wins flagged, clear ownership throughout.
You keep
Culture development
The longest lead-time item. We assess your culture, design the program, train leadership, and build the measurement system, so the requirement is met with substance, not a poster on the wall.
You keep
Program updates
EMP enhancements, change-management procedures, management-review inputs, and HACCP review, all built inside Beacon so every update becomes a living record.
You keep
Verification mock
A full internal audit against Edition 10. Every gap confirmed closed and every new program rehearsed before the real auditor arrives.
You keep
The transition is led by a former SQF Lead Auditor who does not just know what the new Code says, but what auditors will look for in an Edition 10 audit. Meet Jeff.
Facilities that start now will be ready. The ones that wait will scramble.
Gap assessments take weeks. Culture takes months. Start your Edition 10 transition with a 20-minute discovery call.
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What happens next
Discovery call
About your facility and goals. Not a sales pitch.
See it in action
A live walkthrough of Beacon scoped to your operation.
Custom proposal
Software, consulting, and training sized to your facility.
You'll talk with a food safety expert, not a sales rep.
20 minutes · No commitment · No pressure
Tell us where your program stands
Send the basics and we come to the call already knowing your current edition, your next audit date, and how much culture work is still ahead of you.
SQF Edition 10 questions, answered
The timeline, the new requirements, and what to do next.