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Monthly Internal Audit Checklist

by Brittany Gullett, from the Community

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This monthly internal audit checklist helps manufacturing teams verify regulatory compliance, GMP, and safety across the entire facility. Sections cover outside grounds, entrances, offices, maintenance shops, quality lab, breakrooms, gowning and locker rooms, restrooms, and multiple production lines with checks for lighting, guards, paperwork, metal detection, sanitation, allergen control, and pest activity. Includes warehouse, coolers, freezers, shipping and receiving, tote wash, and chemical storage, with focus on emergency lights, signage, fire protection, and equipment condition.

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Monthly Internal Food Safety Audit
Use this monthly internal food safety audit checklist to verify GMP and personal hygiene, warehouse and staging housekeeping, blending and packaging room sanitation, scale checks, pest control, FEFO raw material storage, allergen labeling, equipment condition, lighting and shields, handwashing stations, chemical storage and SDS availability, office and shipping documentation, and exterior grounds. Ideal for food manufacturing facilities conducting routine audits to maintain compliance and product safety.
by Anne Reshman, from the Community
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Internal Food Safety Audits Checklist
This internal food safety audit checklist helps teams assess GMP and personal hygiene, verify allergen storage and labeling, and review equipment cleanliness and condition. It covers handwashing facilities, protective clothing, high-risk versus low-care controls, sanitation standards, chemical storage and labeling, SDS access, pest control devices, and overall facility upkeep including floors, walls, lighting, and external grounds. Use it to standardize audits across production and warehouse areas, identify nonconformances, and improve compliance with food safety programs and internal QA requirements.
by Dianne Riedel, from the Community
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GMP Inspection Area D Checklist
This GMP Inspection Area D checklist supports compliance across food and warehouse environments. Audit finished goods and raw material storage, restrooms, coolers, freezers, loading docks, maintenance, sanitation areas, offices, and exterior grounds. Verify employee GMP adherence, cleanliness of walls, floors, and lighting, pest control and rodent trap placement, temperature control, labeling and FIFO, allergen segregation, equipment condition and leaks, sanitation supplies and chemical labeling, SDS documentation, and door integrity. Use it to document issues, assign corrective actions, and maintain consistent hygiene and safety standards.
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Hygiene and GMP Internal Inspection Checklist
This Hygiene and GMP internal inspection checklist helps audit factory, warehouse, and canteen areas against cleaning and housekeeping standards. Review production entrances, corridors, locker rooms, toilets, chemical storage, wash up areas, hand wash sinks, curtains, doors, and site perimeter. Verify correct PPE, hot water availability, wash hands posters, segregation of clean and dirty items, approved and labeled chemicals, and secure storage. Check for litter, pest evidence, and proper waste management to maintain GMP and safety compliance.
by Louise Gale, from the Community
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