Quality certificate

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The Potato Flake plant is ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and HACCP certified. It is also licensed under FPO 14055.

What does above certification mean to the customer:

ISO 9001

ISO 9001 is an International standard primarily concerned with Quality Management. This means what the organization does to fulfill:

The customers quality requirement and

Applicable regulatory requirement while aiming to enhance customer satisfaction, and

Achieve continual improvement of its performance in pursuit of the objective.

Which translates that Merino Industries Ltd. has established a systematic approach to quality management and is managing its business to ensure that the customers' needs are clearly understood, agreed and fulfilled.

The objective of ISO 9001 is

Meet customers need and expectation.

Comply with applicable regulation.

ISO 14001

ISO 14001 is primarily concerned with "Environmental management" This means what the organization does to:

Minimize harmful effects on the environment caused by its activities, and to

Achieve continual improvement of its environmental performance.

Which means that Merino Industries Ltd. has a set of management processes and procedures that allows it to analyze, control and reduce the environmental impact of it's activities, products and services and operate with greater efficiency and control.

HACCP

HACCP involves seven principles:

Analyze hazards.

Identify critical control points.

Establish preventive measures with critical limits for each control point.

Establish procedures to monitor the critical control points.

Establish corrective actions to be taken when monitoring shows that a critical limit has not been met.

Establish procedures to verify that the system is working properly

Establish effective record keeping to document the HACCP system. Need for HACCP.

HACCP offers the following advantages to the customers:

Focuses on identifying and preventing hazards from contaminating food.

Is based on sound science.

Permits more efficient and effective oversight, primarily because the record keeping allows investigators to see how well a firm is complying with food safety laws over a period rather than how well it is doing on any given day.

Places responsibility for ensuring food safety appropriately on the food manufacturer.