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 No
food processing organization can function successfully without quality
assurance. Quality assurance is absolutely vital to a successful
operation in today’s food industry. It is an essential discipline needed
to guarantee a safe, wholesome fresh product. From the growing,
harvesting, packing and shipping of our mushrooms, our customers can be
assured that every precaution has been taken to insure product
excellence. Quality Assurance can be defined as a strategic management
function which establishes policies related to quality, adopts programs
to meet the established goals and provides confidence that these
measures are being effectively applied. All these planned and systematic
actions are necessary to provide adequate confidence that our mushrooms
will satisfy our quality requirements.
How does the Quality Assurance department
of Monterey Mushrooms Inc., insure that our customers are receiving
safe, wholesome and fresh product? We establish the following criteria:
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Standards
are established for the growing and harvesting of our mushrooms to
yield the most wholesome fresh product available.
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We set standards to
determine that our fresh mushrooms are kept at the proper temperature
of 34-38 F. during packing and shipping.
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We employ metal
detection equipment on all our sliced mushroom lines to insure against
foreign material.
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We employ high
quality equipment to insure that the weights of our mushrooms meet and
exceed the government standards.
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 We
test our mushrooms for microbiological properties and establish low
tolerances.
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We establish
personnel hygiene standards.
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Strict equipment
sanitation and pesticide standards are met.
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We have written
Quality Assurance manuals for each of our facilities and have assigned
specific personnel to facilitate these standards.
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Recall procedures
have been established for product traceability.
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We continue to
train our employees on the most current food safety requirements and
regulations.
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We have established
internal audits and third party audits to insure that each facility
adheres to our policies and procedures.
All these programs have been written to insure that our
customers and consumers receive the most wholesome, safe, fresh
mushrooms available.
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