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Larse Farms Sweet Darling Sales Inc. global first priorities are worker safety and food safetyGlobal Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) quality assurance overview Sweet Darling Sales, Inc.Sweet Darling Sales, Inc. Aptos CA (HQ, sales and acounting)
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Planting occurs during October of the year prior to harvest
Product trace back to source by cross reference of sales line item to farm production lot lines. A package code label is applied to case packages for traceback to packdate, location, workgroup, commodity. Larse Farms, Inc. is a State of California Certified Producer of fresh strawberries. |
Independent third-party auditor: GlobalGAP no_ 4052852472036
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revision no_ 11 2008-09-2008 | |||
Purpose: | |||
To prevent danger to public health of food borne pathogens. Good Agricultural Practice achieves quality assurance by performing scheduled risk analysis and maintnance while adhering to gap standard operating procedures. All people employed by Larse Farms Sweet Darling Sales Inc. will adhere to the standard operating procedures established herein. | |||
Main Concern: | |||
As of March 4 2020, Covid-19 mitigation required implementation of interogatory supervision and employee acknowledgement and response of certain questions pertaining to recent exposures, infections, positive tests, fever and other symtpoms. The reason is to mitigate exposures for prevention of community transmission.
Epidemics resulting from food safety breaches have occured at various times during the past in the US food chain distribution channnels and therefore are of serious concern. Persons have become ill after eating fresh produce contaminated with food borne pathogens causing gastro-intestinal disease, kidney failure, infectious blood transmitted diseases and even death. | |||
The potential or effect on outcome: | |||
Facilities maintained in sanitary condition and operated according to standard operating procedures. Risk of infectious disease contamintaion of stored product Risk of infectious disease blood, fecal and other types of contamination during the production, harvest, packing and post-harvest processes. Risk of infectious disease contamination of already harvested fresh produce commodity. Impingement of pests and their fecal matter | |||
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Independent third-party auditor: GlobalGAP no_ 4052852472036
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