SQF Logo Rules of Use - Edition 10

Certified sites and certification partners are encouraged to show off their commitment to food safety by showcasing the SQF logo on their websites and media.

The below is applicable to Edition 10 and posted March, 2026.
Translations are provided as a service to SQF customers and are provided "as is." No warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, is made as to the accuracy, reliability, or correctness of any translations made from English into any other language.

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Introduction

1.1The SQF logo is owned by SQFI. Sites obtain no property in the SQF logo.
1.2SQFI delegates any or all of its functions described herein to a licensed certification body (CB) as stipulated in their Safe Quality Food Institute Certification Body License Agreement.
1.3These rules of use regulate the use of the SQF logo by certified sites only. These rules of use do not regulate the use of the SQF logo by SQFI, certification bodies (CBs) or other entities licensed by  SQFI to use them, unless otherwise provided for in this or another instrument.

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Conditions for Use

2.1Sites that achieve and maintain certification to the SQF Food Safety Code and are granted permission by their CB to use the SQF logo. Electronic SQF logo files are to be obtained from the CB. Sites that have been granted an exemption to the product or process are not allowed to use the SQF logo.
2.2A site shall, for the duration of its certification, have the right to use the SQF logo. There will be no fee payable by sites for the right to use the SQF logo, other than fees payable to obtain and maintain certification.
2.3Subsidiary companies and site addresses not included on the certificate of registration are not certified to use the SQF logo.
2.4Sites may only use the SQF logo in accordance with these rules of use, which are designed to protect the integrity and enhance the value of the SQF logo.

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Reproduction

3.1Reproduction of the SQF logo is to be clear, precise, of the highest standard and follow the usage guidelines in the table below.

Color Format:

Full Color Reproduction: outlined in 3.2 below.

Or

Single Color Reproduction: black and white.


For Use On: brochures, flyers, advertisements, press releases, company website, email signature lines, company business cards, internal documents and training materials.
3.2The following guidelines govern full color reproduction.

3.3To ensure readability, do not reproduce the SQF logo smaller than indicated below. Larger variation to these dimensions is permitted provided it is proportional to the dimensions given below.

3.4Where it is demonstrated that alternative reproduction of the SQF logo enhances the status of the SQF logo and/or SQFI, then the alternative is permitted provided it is approved by the CB. All requests must be provided in writing per certified site to the CB and SQFI.

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Obligations of a Site

4.1

A site must:

  • Direct any queries regarding their intended use of the SQF logo to the CB who issued their certificate;

  • Discontinue any use of the SQF logo to which SQFI or the CB reasonably objects;

  • Operate entirely within the scope of its certificate, including the certification schedule;

  • Give SQFI, their CB and/or their agents access to examine all items bearing or indicating the SQF logo for the purpose of confirming compliance with these rules of use and the certificate.

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Grounds for Ceasing Use of the SQF Logo

5.1

Permission for a site to use the SQF logo will be suspended and/or withdrawn:

  • a. If the site’s certification is suspended, withdrawn, relinquished or not renewed;
  • b. If the site breaches or fails to comply with these rules of use;
  • c. If the site uses the SQF logo in a way that, in the opinion of SQFI or the CB, is detrimental to the SQF logo or the SQF program as a whole, is misleading to the public or otherwise contrary to law; or
  • d. If the site has an administrator, receiver, receiver and manager, official manager or provisional liquidator appointed over its assets or where an order is made or a resolution passed for the winding up of the site (except for the purpose of amalgamation or reconstruction) or the site ceases to carry on business or becomes bankrupt, applies to take the benefit of any law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors or makes any arrangement or composition with its creditors.
5.2The site shall be notified by their CB in writing if their use of the SQF Logo has been suspended or withdrawn.

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Disclaimer

6.1SQFI may alter these rules of use or make new rules. No such alteration or new rule shall affect the use of the SQF logo by a site until six (6) months have expired from the date the alteration or new rules of use are first published by SQFI on its website (SQFI.com) unless specified by SQFI.