Food safety
Desert Produce Sales LLC is a fully operating HACCP facility; it is our mission to provide the highest quality product at the peak of freshness while maintaining the cold chain from first loading in the fields to delivering to our customers and partners. We are dedicated to continual improvements in our food safety systems and practices. We rigorously adhere to all food safety laws, as well as continuously training to the industry best practices and methods. We consistently work with other industry organizations and government agencies to assure we are always up to date with any and all food safety practices. Our facility and processes are regularly inspected by independent third party food safety auditors as well as our own in house monthly inspection by the on duty safety manager.
Traceability
In the event of a recall, we are fully prepared to take every step possible to protect consumers from the potentially adverse effects of contaminated, adulterated, or misbranded products. This program initiative allows us to trace where the product originated what pesticides were used and which variety seeds were grown, all the way to identify what customer received which lot of products. To further the effectiveness of our food safety systems, we regularly test our in house recall and traceability systems through mock recalls in order to ensure that we can quickly identify, initiate and implement a thorough and effective product recall.
For the vendors {growers} we source from, it is essential they too uphold the highest food safety standards. We require that all of our vendors and growers develop their own food safety program, and abide by not only GMP, but standard operating procedures that include self-audits, reporting, and most importantly align with our values and practices for freshness and food-safety.
Here at Desert Produce Sales LLC Sales food safety has always been our first and foremost priority!!!
