jeudi 20 juin 2019

Safety Practices By Wholesale Caribbean Food Distributors

By Arthur Walker


Foodstuffs are extremely sensitive; hence, manufacturers must enhance stringent safety actions to ensure any item delivered to consumers is safe for their health. Particularly, wholesale Caribbean food distributors adhere to seven quality assurance practices. To mention a few, there are proper foodstuff handling, safe production, adequate sanitation, and effective control of pests programs. Each of these practices is described in detail in the following sections.

To start with, truck drivers, warehouse operators, and any other person involved in production or distribution of goods must practice proper handling techniques. These techniques are divided into three most significant areas. First, dedicated personnel must maintain appropriate temperature conditions in warehouses, packaging materials, or delivery trucks. Additionally, identify items appropriately as good or bad, rejected, or on-hold. Separate items that require processing form processed ones.

Another precautionary measure is training every employee on personal and materials hygiene. Even if a company places all measures to ensure foodstuffs are safe but fails to train their operators the value of maintaining proper sanitation, they will not achieve their objectives. Set policies that enforce proper sanitation among employee and oversee them ensure every worker adheres. Additionally, train workers to ensure items meant to be delivered to a certain customer are properly stored in warehouses.

Suppliers must establish firm sanitation practices by creating a culture where new employees can notice hygiene enforcement activities even before being trained. Some of these practices could include a specific day for general cleaning, regular hand-washing before and after touching foodstuffs, and frequent inspections. To carry out cleaning, suppliers ought to establish guidelines for proper use of cleansers, mixing of chemical-based cleaning solutions and storing them after use.

They are supplying products that are contaminated with pests such as weevils in maize risks the health of consumers. Since manufacturers dealing with consumables cannot evade pests, it is essential to establish programs to minimize infestation. Proper pest control and management program are quite complex, thus requires services from a licensed and experienced pest control expert. Routine inspections must cover every place that comes into contact with items such as trucks, warehouses, and packaging.

Tracing and tracking mechanisms should be put in place. To effect this, once manufacturers receive raw materials, they ought to record information such as expiry date, product condition, temperature, kill, and code dates. Similarly, before delivery to consumers, manufacturers must record similar details for finished products. Adhering to a first in first out principle ensures that some foodstuffs do not stay in the warehouse for too long.

Suppose a product is sent to the wrong consumer or suppliers confirm that delivered items are not harmful. Companies should establish a recalling procedure to ensure each item is returned to manufacturers. Recall procedures should be documented in a manual, and each worker provided with a copy. For effective use and elimination of any issues, it is advisable to practice the steps with workers before actual implementation.

Consumers expect that before foodstuffs reach them, manufacturers ought to have performed comprehensive security risk evaluation. Additionally, they must have implemented physical protective measures such as camera installation in trucks, locking warehouse doors, and proper supervision of truck drivers.




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