Quality & food safety
Food safety controls built around product integrity and export requirements
Food safety management, production controls, traceability and buyer documentation through processing, packing, cold storage and dispatch.
Quality control framework
The controls applied across production, and the records each one produces.
HACCP & food safety
Hazard analysis, identified control points and the verification applied to each.
Production controls
Defined controls through cutting, preparation and handling, recorded as the work is done.
Cold chain
Temperature control maintained from chilling through storage to dispatch.
Traceability
Batch identity carried from raw material through to the consignment despatched.
Testing & verification
Sampling and analysis according to the plan and to destination requirements.
Sanitation & hygiene
Cleaning, disinfection and hygiene controls scheduled and verified.
Where control is applied
Each stage has its own controls and its own records. What a buyer receives is the outcome of all five.
- Raw materialReception checks, documentation and batch identification on arrival.
- ProcessingCutting and preparation to the agreed specification under defined controls.
- PackingPacking to the agreed configuration, with labelling and batch marking.
- Cold storageChilled or frozen storage under monitored temperature.
- DispatchLoading under temperature control with the documentation for the destination.
Traceability
Every consignment can be followed back through packing and processing to the batch it came from, and forward to where it was despatched.
- Product
- Batch / lot
- Processing
- Packing
- Cold storage
- Shipment
Certification
Certification documentation is provided to qualified buyers on request. Schemes are published on this site only once the certificate itself is on file and in date, so this page never lists one that cannot be evidenced.
Documentation for buyers
- Product specifications and technical data sheets
- Current certificates
- Quality documentation
- Traceability information for a supplied consignment
- Laboratory reports where applicable to the product and destination
Supporting quality and audit documentation can be made available to qualified buyers subject to applicable confidentiality and access requirements.
Quality documentation for your requirement
Tell us the products and the destination market, and our export team will confirm which quality and regulatory documentation applies and what can be provided.
Further reading for buyers
View allTechnical guides covering the requirements behind this page, written for import and quality teams.
Quality & compliance8 sources
Trichinella testing in EU pork: what Regulation (EU) 2015/1375 requires
How Regulation (EU) 2015/1375 governs Trichinella examination at slaughter, the Member State conditions the controlled housing derogation really depends on, the Annex II freezing route, and what the certificate has to carry.
Logistics & cold chain11 sources
Cold chain compliance for pork export
What temperature EU law requires pork to hold from chilling to delivery, what has to be recorded, and what a break in the cold chain costs at the border and under the contract.
Quality & compliance12 sources
Traceability requirements for meat: what a buyer can ask for
How EU meat traceability actually works: the one-step-back, one-step-forward duty under Article 18, the data that must travel with a consignment, and what a pork batch code should resolve to.