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Practical Food Safety Expertise. Trusted Industry Experience.

At Ardent Quality Care, we help food businesses build safer operations, stronger quality systems and lasting compliance. From manufacturers and distributors to retailers and food service businesses, we develop practical solutions that are designed to work in the real world, not just on paper.

Founded by food safety leader Khyati Modha, Ardent brings more than 20 years of hands-on experience across Australia’s leading food manufacturers, certification bodies and major retailers. Whether you’re preparing for certification, strengthening your Quality Management System or improving audit performance, we provide the practical support to get there.

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Proven experience

Over 20 years leading food safety, quality and regulatory systems across Australia’s food manufacturing industry.

Audit ready

Supporting HACCP, SQF, BRCGS, FSSC 22000 and retailer compliance with practical, sustainable systems.

Practical partnership

We work alongside your team to deliver tailored solutions that improve compliance, reduce risk and build long-term capability.

Testimonials

Client Success Stories

I have worked with Khyati over the past 10 years in a variety of roles, through different requirements and under varying capacities.

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I first met Khyati when looking for a quality professional that could act as a change agent for a High Care food business that was failing against its customer requirements. She rebuilt the entire quality system, rebuilt the quality team (utilising half the incumbent members), and engaged the operational staff to reform their understanding of quality creating a true quality culture all within a year. The business was commended in a Coles CFMSR audit as being the only business within their supplier network Australia wide that had managed to go from a red rating to a blue rating (their lowest to their highest) within 12 months. Our Journey together in this business saw us achieve and maintain the highest classifications across Coles, Woolworths and SQF audits for the next three years.

After leaving this business I employed Khyati as a consultant to fly down to Melbourne to carry out Gap Analysis on another food business I had taken operational responsibility for and then mentor my team through the resolutions to close out again helping us to achieve the highest classifications across Coles, Woolworths and SQF audits.

On returning to Sydney and moving into the ready meals segment I was able to convince Khyati to again come in and employ her unique skills as a change agent, rebuilding the system, team and quality culture at Australias premier ready meals company. Two years later now in my own start up food based business I reached out to Khyati to manage a ground up build.

In todays environment where uncompromising quality is a requirement, you need to have the confidence that the people in your corner have the ability to build a system and culture within your business that delivers to your customers utmost expectations. Khyati and the Ardent team have been able to achieve this time and time again for me whilst working across high care facilities, high risk processes, large scale businesses, small emerging start ups with budget constraints, all the while catering for and delivering to the most stringent standards in Australia.

For everything from advice, to GAP audits, to complete system builds, I could not recommend Khyati and the Ardent team high enough.

Tobias DunnOperations Director and Co-founder
Remora Group Pty Ltd

We engaged Khyati Modha as a QA consultant to build our HACCP program to SQF standard, and she delivered, fast. What stood out wasn’t just the speed; it was how she approached the work. Khyati is consultative and practical, which meant she didn’t just hand us documentation, she brought our internal teams and external stakeholders along through the process, getting genuine buy-in from both groups.

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She’s knowledgeable without being theoretical, and efficient without cutting corners. If you’re looking for someone who can operate at a high standard while actually moving the needle, I’d recommend Khyati Modha without hesitation.

Nathan CatalanoDirector of Sales
Foodsmiths Australia

Ardent Quality Care has become a trusted extension of our quality team. Their ongoing advice, responsiveness, and commitment to continuous improvement have helped us maintain compliance while improving operational efficiency.

Julian HalfacareDirector
Good Farm Group Pty Ltd
Our mission

Helping Food Businesses Build Safer, Stronger Operations.

Our mission is to make food safety and quality simple, practical and sustainable. We partner with businesses to develop systems that protect consumers, strengthen compliance and support long-term growth.

By combining deep industry expertise with a hands-on approach, we help our clients navigate complex regulatory requirements with confidence and achieve lasting operational excellence.

Khyati Modha, founder of Ardent Quality Care