---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001185185-25-001258"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IVFH"
cik: "0000312257"
company_name: "INNOVATIVE FOOD HOLDINGS INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:54:43.554412+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Innovative Food Holdings dismisses Stephano Slack, appoints CBIZ as new auditor

## Summary
- Dismissed Stephano Slack as auditor effective September 17, 2025; no disagreements or reportable events during engagement.
- Engaged CBIZ CPAs P.C. as new independent registered public accounting firm on September 22, 2025, approved by Audit Committee.
- Prior auditor Assurance Dimensions resigned April 2025; Stephano Slack was engaged for interim 2025 quarterly reviews.
- No consultations with CBIZ on accounting principles, disagreements, or reportable events before engagement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001185185-25-001258
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IVFH
- cik: 0000312257
- company_name: INNOVATIVE FOOD HOLDINGS INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/312257/000118518525001258/0001185185-25-001258-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/312257/000118518525001258/ivfh8k091925.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-25-001258.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  INNOVATIVE FOOD HOLDINGS INC dismissed Stephano Slack LLC as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Stephano Slack LLC
  source text: the Company dismissed Stephano Slack as its independent registered public accounting firm effective as of September 17, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/312257/000118518525001258/0001185185-25-001258-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  INNOVATIVE FOOD HOLDINGS INC engaged CBIZ CPAs P.C. as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: CBIZ CPAs P.C.
  source text: On September 22, 2025, the Company engaged CBIZ CPAs P.C. (“CBIZ”) as its new independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/312257/000118518525001258/0001185185-25-001258-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Assurance Dimensions, LLC resigned as auditor of INNOVATIVE FOOD HOLDINGS INC.
  - Action: resignation
  - Auditor: Assurance Dimensions, LLC
  source text: roviding audit services to publicly traded companies, Assurance Dimensions, LLC (“Assurance Dimensions”) resigned from its role as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/312257/000118518525001258/0001185185-25-001258-index.htm

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