Everyday Food Safety
Food Defense Audit Checklist with CARVER+Shock Tool
$49
Strengthen your food defense program with a practical, ready-to-use Food Defense Audit Checklist and CARVER+Shock Vulnerability Assessment Toolkit. This editable Excel workbook helps you identify security gaps, assess vulnerable process steps, prioritize mitigation actions, and document audit results with formula-driven scoring.
Includes the Food Defense Audit Checklist, Audit Scoring Sheet, CARVER+Shock Vulnerability Assessment, Filled-Out CARVER+Shock Sample, and Audit Scoring Guide — all in one professional, ready-to-print workbook.
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Description
Protecting food from intentional adulteration requires more than routine food safety controls. You need a structured way to audit your food defense program, identify vulnerabilities, evaluate process nodes, and prioritize stronger safeguards.
The Food Defense Audit Checklist with CARVER+Shock Toolkit provides food manufacturers, QA teams, auditors, and food safety professionals with an editable Excel-based system for conducting food defense audits and vulnerability assessments.
The workbook covers key areas such as supply chain security, facility and personnel access, production and processing controls, packaging, storage, transportation, emergency response, cybersecurity, and management oversight. It also includes a CARVER+Shock assessment tool for comparing process nodes and identifying areas with greater relative vulnerability. FDA describes CARVER+Shock as a method for evaluating and ranking potential vulnerabilities within food systems and facilities.
What’s Included in the Workbook
- Food Defense Audit Checklist — Conduct a structured food defense audit using C, PC, NC, and N/A ratings. Record objective evidence, audit findings, corrections or corrective actions, and completion dates directly in the checklist.
- Audit Scoring Sheet — Automatically summarizes results as compliant, partially compliant, non-compliant, or not applicable. Formula-driven scoring provides overall and section-level audit results for easier review and follow-up.
- CARVER+Shock Assessment Template — Assess process steps or nodes using Criticality, Accessibility, Recuperability, Vulnerability, Effect, Recognizability, and Shock. The worksheet automatically calculates total scores and relative rankings while providing space for existing safeguards, mitigation actions, responsibilities, due dates, and status.
- Sample Filled-Out CARVER+Shock Assessment — See how the tool works through a practical food-manufacturing example before completing your own facility-specific assessment.
- Audit Scoring Guide — Follow clear instructions for audit ratings, score interpretation, CARVER+Shock factors, the 1–10 scoring approach, mitigation priorities, and FDA food-defense reference guidance.
Want to dive deeper, strengthen your security measures, learn how to identify threats, and align with FSMA requirements? Please read our detailed Food Defense Blog here.
Disclaimer
When you purchase our digital Food Defense Audit Checklist with the CARVER+Shock Assessment Tool, please note that no physical item will be shipped. After we deliver the download links, all sales are final. Therefore, you agree that no returns or refunds will be applied once we have provided the access details.
Additionally, this checklist serves as a practical guide to support your compliance efforts. This product does not constitute professional consulting, certification, or regulatory approval services. Use it solely as a reference tool to aid in preparation and continuous improvement.
