Case Study: Bluegrass Ingredients achieves daily audit readiness and 98–99 SQF scores with Safefood 360°

Safefood 360° drives Bluegrass Ingredients to consistent annual SQF scores of 98 and 99

Bluegrass Ingredients, a leading manufacturer of flavorings, faced fragmented, paper-based compliance systems across two sites that caused delays, lost data and difficulty staying audit-ready. To modernize and centralize food safety, they selected Safefood 360° and its Food Safety Management solution supported by Professional Services to deliver a secure, scalable cloud platform that would put data at the heart of their operations.

Safefood 360° was deployed across both Kentucky sites, using its 35-module Food Safety Management platform to provide real-time oversight, document control, complaint tracking and corrective-action reporting. The result: Bluegrass is “audit ready, every day,” with real-time visibility across sites, 25 audits completed on the first day of each month, SQF scores consistently of 98–99 (including a 99 during a hybrid audit), and recent audits delivered 30% faster—enabling greater confidence during unannounced inspections and more focus on value-added activities.

Bluegrass Ingredients

Mike Wernigk

Director of Quality