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[ptjong1983]

Hi all,

 

I have a quick inquiry regarding required certification for approved suppliers. We have one supplier - a small "mom and pop" farm who supplies citrus fruit to us but they are not HACCP certified. However, they are certified organic - would this be sufficient for a HACCP audit approved supplier program?

 

Their product is very low risk to us because we add a very small amount of their product into ours and we produce high alcohol level beverages. (It does through a distilling process)

 

Thank you!

 

[Tony-C]

Hi ptjong1983,

 

 

Welcome to the IFSQN forums.

 

For a small farm supplying small volumes of low risk fruit, I would accept the organic certification as that should include food safety aspects and would cover a major concern in produce regarding any residual chemicals including pesticides etc.

 

Ask if they are prepared to supply their audit report as well as their certificate.

 

Kind regards,

 

Tony

[ptjong1983]

Hi Tony,

 

Thank you so much for your warm welcome and such a prompt reply!

 

We have a record of their certificate but I now will request their audit report! 

 

Thanks again and have a great one!

 

Cheers,

Patricia 

[jfrey123]

Good call getting the actual audit.  Farm audits are weird:  not all of them require non-conformities to be corrected, some rate things that I'd call major to be only a minor, etc.  It's always good to take a look at the full report if they'll let you.