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Your Production Line Cannot Afford a Food Safety Failure.

One temperature excursion. One incomplete HACCP record. One failed audit. In food production, the consequences can cascade from a regulatory warning to a product recall to permanent reputational damage. Testo gives production and QA managers the automated monitoring, digital documentation, and audit-ready reporting to keep their facility consistently compliant at every stage of the production process.

The challenge

Food Production Compliance Is Getting More Complex.

The regulatory landscape for food manufacturers and processors in Australia is rigorous and tightening. FSANZ requirements, HACCP documentation obligations, and major retailer or export standards (SQF, BRC, GFSI) all demand a level of traceability and record accuracy that manual systems struggle to deliver reliably.

Manual records create compliance gaps

When staff are focused on production throughput, manual temperature logging gets rushed, skipped, or filled in retrospectively. That is a significant audit risk under any food safety standard.

No real-time visibility

Without automated alerts, temperature deviations in cold storage, processing areas, or cooking stages can go undetected. By the time you find out, the product may already be at risk.

Retailer and export audit pressure

Major Australian retailers and export markets require demonstrable HACCP compliance and increasingly expect digital traceability. Paper-based records are difficult to verify and slow to retrieve.

Multiple monitoring points

Large production facilities have dozens of critical control points across receiving, storage, processing, cooking, cooling, and dispatch. Manually monitoring all of them is resource-intensive and inconsistent.

Incident investigation

When something goes wrong, you need accurate, timestamped records to identify the source quickly. Manual logs rarely provide the granularity required.

The Testo solution

End-to-End Food Safety Monitoring for Production Kitchens

Testo Smart Connect is a connected, HACCP-certified monitoring system built to handle the complexity of food production environments. It combines robust hardware sensors with cloud-based software to give production and QA teams real-time visibility, automated record keeping, and instant alerts across every critical control point in your facility.

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Regulatory context

Built to Meet the Standards That Matter Most to You.

Food production facilities in Australia are required to comply with the FSANZ Food Standards Code, including Standard 3.2.1 (Food Safety Programs) and Standard 3.2.2 (Food Safety Practices and General Requirements). A documented, implemented, and monitored HACCP-based food safety program is mandatory for most food manufacturing operations.

If your facility supplies major retailers, foodservice distributors, or export markets, you are likely also working to meet one or more GFSI-recognised standards, including SQF (Safe Quality Food), BRC Global Standards, or FSSC 22000. These frameworks require rigorous, verifiable documentation of food safety controls.

Testo Smart Connect is HACCP-certified and provides the digital records and reporting that auditors for all of these standards need to see.

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How it works

From Consultation to Compliance: How We Work With You.

Step 1: Book a call

Talk with a Testo food safety compliance specialist. We will understand your facility layout, your current monitoring approach, and the standards you need to meet.

Step 2: Solution Design

We design a system that covers every critical control point in your operation, with the right hardware for your environment and software configured to your HACCP plan.

Step 3: Installation

Our team installs and commissions the system, validates sensor placement, and configures your alert thresholds and reporting outputs before handover.

Step 4: Go Live and Ongoing Support

Your production line is monitored from day one. Your QA team has real-time visibility and instant alerts. Compliance reports are available whenever you need them.

See Testo in your food production kitchen

Talk to a food safety specialist. We'll show you exactly how Testo works for facilities like yours.

Testo food safety FAQs

Testo - Head Office
Testo Pty Ltd
Unit 11, 114-118 Merrindale Drive
Croydon SouthVictoria 3136
Australia
+61 (0)3 8761 6108+61 (0)3 4100 0438
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For all calibration and repair services.
Unit 1, 10-12 Sigma Drive
Croydon South Victoria 3136
Australia
+61 (0)3 8761 7108

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