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Educational and preliminary compliance-assessment tool — not an FDA determination.
SURU Compliance LLC
SURU Food Supply Chain Intelligence
From Farm to Fork — Know the Hazard. Know the Rule. Know Your Responsibility.
Google Maps for food regulatory compliance. Tell us what food you are working with, and this tool draws the journey — then at every stop shows what happens there, what can go wrong, which rule matters, which control to evaluate, which documents apply, and what the latest available FDA information says.
The generic journey — search below and it becomes specific to your product
Follow the food, stage by stage.
Play the journey or step through it yourself. Hover a stage for a preview, or select one to open it in detail.
Farm / Growing
High regulatory significanceThe commodity is grown in an open field, protected structure or orchard. Agricultural water, biological soil amendments, worker hygiene, animal intrusion and equipment sanitation are the dominant variables.
Why this step matters: For produce eaten raw there is usually no kill step anywhere in the chain, so growing-stage controls carry disproportionate weight.
Search a food, commodity, ingredient or finished product — or describe the whole scenario in a sentence.
Search a food to begin