Food Safety and Quality Certification required for Farms?

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!

Hi ptjong1983,

:welcome:

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

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