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Seafood HACCP, Preventive Controls, GMP documents, Third Party Audits, and more.

With 17 years of experience, I’m ready to make your compliance tasks a lot easier.


Services (what I do)

Food Safety Plans:

  • Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) and related prerequisite programs (see next list)

  • Environmental Monitoring Programs

  • Food defense (Intentional Adulteration & Vulnerability Assessment) plans & mitigation strategies

  • Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP) for Human Food

  • FSMA compliance gap analysis

  • HACCP plan development and validation for special processes

  • Intentional Adulteration & Vulnerability Assessment reports

  • Preventive Controls plans for Human Food (food safety plans) in compliance with 21 CFR Part 117 and successor regulations including validation, verification, and reanalysis

  • Recall plans and communication documents

  • Root Cause Analysis procedures & policies

  • Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures and validation of sanitation controls

  • Sanitary Transportation Rule for Human Food and for Animal Feed

  • Sanitation Controls & Validation of Sanitation Procedures

  • Standard Operating Procedures and implementation

  • Supply Chain programs

  • Third-party audits

Restaurant services:

  • Architectural plan review for sanitary design implementation, including equipment placement, food guard locations, plumbing specifications, refrigeration capacity specifications, and other relevant factors in the New York City market

  • Pre- and post-construction inspection for Health Code / FDA Model Food Code compliance

  • Permitting for retail, frozen dessert, restaurants (quick-service, fine dining, etc), commissaries, distribution hubs and warehouses, including permit category specification and other typical permitting required by local Dept of Health or FDA for foodservice establishments

At Endocarp, Austin Publicover provides a variety of services to food companies who process, manufacture, and distribute foods throughout the United States.  Austin has over twelve years of experience in the manufacturing space and seventeen years of navigating the regulatory environment, including FDA, USDA, State and local health departments.  Austin takes pride in assisting plant-based product companies achieve regulatory & food safety in view of evolving state & federal regulations, including FSMA*. 

Austin’s experience inspecting more than 1300 kitchens & production facilities also qualifies him across a wide variety of food production scenarios.  In addition to the above food safety plans, programs, and restaurant services, Endocarp is qualified to develop HACCP plans for special processes, including:

  • Hot-filling / canning

  • Juice HACCP

  • Seafood HACCP, including all manner of processing

  • Reduced Oxygen Packaging (ROP) HACCP

  • Sous vide cooking

  • Validation, verification, and updating HACCP plans in accordance with FSMA and relevant Code sections

For special processes that require only a HACCP plan, Endocarp will prepare and submit your HACCP plan to the regulatory authority, follow through with revisions, and obtain approval and a variance.

*Although Austin has experience with USDA, he does not currently work with meat or meat-based products.

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Definition (of that word)

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Endocarp (endo-, "inside" + -carp, "fruit") is a botanical term for the inside layer of the pericarp (or fruit), which directly surrounds and nourishes the seeds and their development. It may be membranous as in citrus where it is the only part consumed, or thick and hard as in the drupes (cherries, plums, apricots, peaches, olives).


Endocarp (philosophy)

Here to strengthen & nourish foundations.

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And to sustain food safety knowledge.

To grow relationships rooted in mutual trust.

With hands-on troubleshooting & problem solving.

Because teams grow in collaboration. Never fear.

Because you want your ethos reflected in a consultant.

Because the FDA expects you to be better.

Because excellence always exceeds compliance.


And still a bit more!

Ensure your operations are bulletproof with Endocarp’s assessment:

  • Crisis management

  • Mock recalls, recall plans, and traceability

  • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) (evaluate existing and/or develop new)

  • Sanitation SOPs

If it’s not written, then it didn’t happen!  Ever hear that old saying?  It’s true! 

Regulators, auditors, and even insurance adjusters all need records… it’s definitely not enough to show systems, knowledgeable individuals, and a food safety plan gathering dust on the shelf.  You must show living documents, written procedures, logs signed by the person completing the observation and then subsequently reviewed & signed by a PCQI as outlined in your food safety plan. 

In all its splendor, Endocarp’s complete prerequisite document package includes:

  • Allergen Labeling policy

  • Approved Uniforms

  • Catastrophe / Emergency Management plan

  • Certificate of Analysis template, as appropriate to the product

  • Complaint management system & templates for customer communication

  • Disposable Glove Use policy

  • Document Review & Verification policy

  • Employee Health Policy, including COVID-19 and Hepatitis A

  • Food Facility Registration (FFR) for production facilities inspected by FDA

  • Food safety / GMP Training policy

  • Glass & brittles policy

  • Hand washing procedures & policy, including fingernail length and nail polish policy

  • Hold Procedures, as appropriate to the product

  • Internal Auditing guidelines and templates

  • Jewelry policy

  • Labeling control, as appropriate

  • Lot number conversion & tracking (manual)

  • Non-conforming product policy

  • Sanitizer concentration, mixing, and handling plan

  • Scale verification practices, as appropriate

  • Shipping & Sanitary Transportation best practices policy

  • Thermometer calibration procedure and policy

  • Verification Procedures summarized from food safety plan

  • Visitor policy, in accordance with IAVA and food defense

Yes! We’ve got it covered. Reach out and let’s roll!