Built For Real Facilities in Our Region

Food facilities across Central and Southeast Pennsylvania deal with real-world factors that can make food defense and pest risk tougher than it seems on paper.

High-volume production, farm-based ingredients, and nonstop deliveries can increase pest pressure and create weak spots around loading docks, ingredient storage, and waste areas. Busy operations with doors opening all day, mixed-use spaces, and heavy foot and vehicle traffic can also expose gaps in access control and monitoring. And when seasonal rushes hit, it is easy for sanitation routines, receiving procedures, and paperwork to get inconsistent.

Dominion’s audits are built for these day-to-day conditions, so your controls still hold up when things get busy.

Food Safety vs. Food Defense

Food safety focuses on preventing unintentional contamination, such as sanitation breakdowns, cross-contamination, pathogens, and allergens.

Food defense focuses on preventing intentional adulteration or tampering.

Dominion’s audits connect both because the same weak points, like access control, material handling, and pest entry pathways, can affect product protection and audit outcomes.

What a Dominion Food Auditor Is and Why It Matters

A food auditor is a trained professional who reviews documents, observe operations, and verify that procedures match what is happening on the floor.

A strong audit helps your business reduce contamination risk, avoid costly disruptions, improve inspection and customer-audit readiness, and uncover blind spots that internal teams can miss when day-to-day operations move fast.

This service is built for organizations that manufacture, process, pack, hold, or store food, especially those with customer audit requirements or complex operations. Examples include food and beverage manufacturers, co-packers, processors, commercial kitchens and bakeries, cold storage, warehouses and distribution centers, ingredient suppliers, and facilities handling high-volume or widely distributed products.

If you are unsure whether the FSMA Intentional Adulteration Rule applies to your operation, an audit can clarify scope and next steps.

What We Assess

Pest-related vulnerabilities are not just a housekeeping issue. In food facilities, rodents, flies, and stored-product pests can act as contamination pathways by moving through waste areas, drains, dock zones, and ingredient storage and then into processing or packaging spaces. A food safety and food defense audit helps you spot the conditions that allow those pathways to exist, like door discipline at receiving, gaps around penetrations, moisture and harborage, and weak corrective-action follow-through.

Dominion will examine where ingredients or finished product could be most exposed, and where mitigation strategies should be strongest. This includes a practical review of who can access what, when, and how quickly irregular activity would be detected.

We look for gaps that commonly occur when operations expand, shifts change, or storage patterns change.

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What You Receive

You will receive a written report with risk-ranked findings, corrective actions, and recommendations that address both pest-related vulnerabilities and food defense expectations. Deliverables are designed to support inspections and customer audits while improving day-to-day control.

Dominion’s Food Safety and Food Defense auditing is led by experienced commercial pest management professionals with food-industry credentials. That means you get a facility-first assessment that translates into practical improvements, not generic checklists.

FAQs

Are you a certification body?
No. This is an audit and gap assessment to strengthen your program and improve readiness for regulatory and customer audits.

How long does an audit take?
Timing depends on facility size and complexity. Many on-site audits are completed in a single day, followed by reporting.

What should we prepare?
Typically: pest program records, relevant SOPs, training records, sanitation documentation, and any existing food defense materials.