Your Brand, Protected on Every Roast

A coffee co-packer keeps products traceable by recording every input and process step, so any finished product can be traced back to its green coffee, ingredients, and packaging, and forward to where it shipped. At Cascade, we test, validate, document, and trace up to 20 data points on every roast and capture all quality data in our Quality Windows database. Our trace and recall program ties each product to its production records, and our Technical Services team provides brands with documentation through the entire process.

SQF audits are scored out of 100, and a score of 96 to 100 earns a rating of Excellent, the highest rating SQF gives. Scores of 86 to 95 rate Good, 70 to 85 rate Complies, and anything below 70 fails. SQF is recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative, and many retailers and national brands require it from their co-packers. Cascade has scored in the Excellent range every year since 2019, most recently a 97, and has averaged 97 since 2020.

Cascade has held SQF certification for 11 years and has earned a rating of Excellent for eight straight years, most recently a 97 out of 100. That record comes from a documented system run by our Technical Services team, with HACCP, GMP, food defense, food fraud, and trace and recall programs, PCQI-qualified staff, and lab testing on every finished product. It also comes from the people on the floor, since Cascade trains and certifies employees across every role through our Alchemy Learning Platform and certification programs. The goal on every run is to meet each customer's technical specifications.

At minimum, look for a GFSI-recognized food safety certification such as SQF, along with HACCP and GMP programs and staff qualified as Preventive Controls Qualified Individuals (PCQI) under FSMA. Ask for the co-packer's recent audit scores as well as the certificate itself, and ask how they handle traceability, recalls, food defense, and food fraud. If your product carries claims such as organic or Fair Trade, confirm the co-packer can source and document them. Cascade is SQF certified with a rating of Excellent every year since 2019, runs HACCP, GMP, trace and recall, food defense, and food fraud programs, has PCQI-qualified staff, and sources organic and Fair Trade Certified coffee.

Cascade Coffee has earned an SQF rating of Excellent every year since 2019. Our scores have been 96 in 2019, 98 in 2020, 98 in 2021, 97 in 2022, 97 in 2023, 96 in 2024, 97 in 2025, and 97 in 2026, an average of 97 since 2020. Cascade has held SQF certification for 11 years. SQF rates scores of 96 to 100 as Excellent, its highest rating.

Cascade Coffee is SQF certified, rated Excellent every year since 2019, and runs HACCP and GMP programs with PCQI-qualified staff. We also hold low-acid canned foods authority and maintain programs for trace and recall, food defense, food fraud, chemical clearance, pest control, and customer complaints. Our team includes HACCP-certified staff, SQF practitioners, Q Graders, and green coffee graders. In our lab, we run oxygen and seal testing, grind and color analysis, moisture and water activity testing, caffeine analysis, and sensory analysis on finished products.