Food Safety & Hygiene

• Complete separation of ready to consume and raw products.
• Complete separation of staff engaged in the raw products side and the ready to consume product side including the maintenance staff.
• Separate in-house laundries for uniforms used in raw product areas and in ready-to-consume product areas.
• Two stage sanitation for food handlers in the raw product area.
• Three stage sanitation for food handlers in the ready to consume product area.
• Separate drain lines from each production area to the effluent treatment plant.
• Separate water reticulation systems for production and cleaning.
• Positive air pressure directs air flow in factory from highly sensitive areas to less sensitive areas: highest pressure in sliced packs production room > lowest in raw products area.
• Air supplied to the production areas is filtered twice.
• One-way smokehouses load raw products at one end and unload cooked products at the other.
• In-house laboratory equipped with latest testing equipment and operated by fully qualified technologists.
• All packaging materials are removed from original outer wrapping and pallets before being transferred to ready-to-consume product area.

We are currently members of the following industry groups:

AUS-MEAT Limited - www.ausmeat.com.au
Australian Quarantine & Inspection Service - www.aqis.gov.au
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - www.affa.gov.au
AUSTRADE - www.austrade.gov.au