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Friday, August 7, 2009

Safety measures taken by Seawork for Hake products

Seawork processing has adopted the HACCP certificate till the start of the company. First of all what is HACCP??


At SEAWORK a "Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points System" (HACCP), a food safety management system has been implemented since the start of the company. The system relies on a systematic approach to the identification and assessment of the hazards and risks associated with a food operation and the defining of the means of their control. It is a preventative system for ensuring the highest hake food safety possible, but is not a stand-alone system. It is built upon other programs such as Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) which are built into our food safety system. Our HACCP system undergoes a bi-annual audit from SABS (South African Bureau of Standardization, Cape Town) to ensure that the company conforms to the necessary criteria. A certificate on compliance, valid for the next six months is issued.
 
HACCP has been endorsed worldwide by organizations such as Codex Alimentarius (a commission of the United Nations), the FDA (US Food and drug Administration), the European Union and by several other countries, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
Each and every product which is Hake fillets, frozen Hake fillet, Hake H&G, boned or deboned has to undergo through this certificate, resulting to a guarantee that our product is of high standard.


As all our Hake fish are filleted by hand for further processing. Every product has to be scanned through a metal detector for safety reason. We do our best to keep the quality of work to high standard so that our clients are sure that the product provided is of high quality.

For more information about frozen Hake fillets or any other products based of Hake, please feel free to view our website on:
http://www.seawork.com.na/quality.html 


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