Food Safety
Programs & Systems
At Produce Technology, we believe Food Safety is crucial to your business success. It can help you integrate sanitary and hygiene practices into your operations so that exposure to potential product cross-contamination may be minimized. Food safety can add marketing value to your product quality; but most importantly, can save you from costly liabilities, operational overhauls, expensive recalls, and unexpected headaches. Our programs can also help:
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Comply with current industry and government guidelines (i.e., FDA: FSMA, FSVP)
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Increase credibility in your operations with present and potential clients
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Lessen your costs and liability in the event of a foodborne outbreak or product recall
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Establish reliable control over food safety and sanitation at your operation
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Enhance your competitive edge and reputation in the produce industry
PROGRAMS
Ranch/Field Production & Harvesting
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Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) Program
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Produce Safety, Sanitation, & Hygiene Program
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Field Sanitation & Employee Hygiene Program
Processing & Packing Facility
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Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Point (HACCP)
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Good Manufacturing/Handling Practices (GMP/GHP)
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Standard Sanitation Operating Procedures (SSOP)
Packing & Re-styling
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Food Safety for Packing/Re-styling of Fruit & Vegetables
Cold Storage & Distribution
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Food Safety & Sanitation for Cold Storage/Distribution
Auditing & Prevention-Verification Systems
Produce Technology can help your company reach a verifiable level of food safety under monitored use of food safety standards. Through our audit and verification systems, our company will be able to help you objectively screen out those supplier operations unable to maintain required food safety and sanitation standards. This is how we can serve you:
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Check your suppliers/vendors’ level of food safety operations realistically
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Raise your company standards through higher food-safety audit requirements
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Provide a fast and reliable audit system that meets your business needs
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Conduct professional audits by experienced and knowledgeable auditors
PROGRAMS
Integrated Food Safety Audit System
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HACCP Verification Audit System
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Food Safety Inspection System
OUR SERVICES
You have a food safety need.
We have a solution.
Ranch/Facility Operational Assessments
Food safety is an operational requisite if one wants to succeed in the competitive produce industry. Before you embark on more profitable ventures and contracts, make sure your company is prepared to operate with food safety on its side. Produce Technology can:
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Ascertain your level of food-safety readiness within industry and regulatory guidelines
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Provide advice on how to strengthen those areas of potential food-safety concern
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Implement measures and safeguards to make your operations food-safety proof
PROGRAMS
Facility Operational Hazard Assessment
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Microbial Risk Analysis for Facility Operations
Third-Party Audit Readiness & Representation
Are your operations ready for announced or unannounced third-party (GFS, Global GAP, SQF), client (GAP, GMP, HACCP), and/or regulatory Inspections (LGMA, USDA)? Do you worry about how you will score in those inspections? Produce Technology can help you prepare by incorporating an advanced and reliable system for food safety program readiness. We can assist you to get ready and pass inspection/audits with comfortable scores and less stress.
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Our 100% successful readiness system can assist you to:
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Incorporate a food safety system that is verifiable through facility records for food safety operations, sanitation procedures, and employee hygiene.
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Prove to your clients and regulatory entities that your operation is compliant with current food safety guidelines and procedures for the produce industry
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Assert your company’s firm commitment to food safety through a proven system
PROGRAMS
Food Safety, Sanitation & Hygiene Program
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Facility HACCP Support Programs
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Produce Trace-Back & Recall Program
Employee
Educational Training
We have designed an educational training program for those entrusted to ensure the safety of your product, the facility employees. Our training program undertakes to:
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Instill workers with practical knowledge in sanitation and hygiene that can be easily applied in handling of crop commodities during daily duties
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Integrate a monitoring system to enforce and verify employee use of good hygiene and sanitation practices during actual operations
PROGRAMS
Introduction to Food Safety Principles
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Food Safety Training for Facility Employees
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Worker Sanitation & Hygiene Program
