Most facility SSOPs are written to look compliant, not to pass an audit. They say "sanitizer" instead of a named chemical, "appropriate time" instead of a contact time, and leave out the sign-offs and citations an inspector expects. It feels fine — right up until an FSIS, FDA, or SQF auditor asks "what concentration, how long, who verified it?"
Hegemony produces professional, audit-ready Standard Sanitation Operating Procedures (SSOPs) and supporting documentation for food-manufacturing facilities — branded to your plant and delivered print-ready. Built by a sanitation professional working inside ready-to-eat (RTE) meat processing, with documentation written to the specifics auditors look for: named chemicals, concentrations, contact times, verification, and sign-offs.
QA managers, plant managers, and owners at small-to-mid food facilities — RTE meat, dairy, produce, and bakery — who need compliant SSOP documentation but lack the internal bandwidth or specialized expertise to build it to audit standard. Wisconsin-based; serving facilities regionally and remote.
A complete set of audit-ready SSOPs covering your equipment, lines, and sanitation zones — plus a master program document and training-record templates. Your branding, print-ready.
Single SSOPs, training-record companions, and bilingual versions (Spanish / Hmong) for your sanitation crew. Add documents as you grow — priced per item.
We keep your SSOP program current as chemicals, equipment, processes, and regulations change — so you stay audit-ready between inspections. Optional, month-to-month.
Every SSOP is built to the standard your operation actually needs — so you pay for the rigor you require, and scale up as you grow. Each document is quality-checked against a regulatory rubric before delivery.
Tell us a little about your facility below. We'll reply within one business day — then you send up to three of your current cleaning procedures (any format, kept confidential) and get back a written gap report: what's missing, why it matters in an audit, your recommended tier, and the fixes to make first. Keep the report whether or not we ever work together.
Intake. You complete a short facility questionnaire — equipment, chemicals, zones.
Draft. We build and internally quality-check each SSOP to your tier.
Review. You review; two revision rounds are included per document.
Finalize. Print-ready SSOPs in your branding — and your qualified person signs off.