QUALITY ASSURANCE GUARANTEE

There has been no bigger issue over the past 10 years that has been more important to our industry than the increased focus on FOOD SAFETY. Every step in the food chain has been scrutinized to assure that the consumer can be assured a safe food supply.

QUALITY ASSURANCE is a top priority with Southern Foods. Therefore, we maintain consistent quality and inspection criteria through continuous education and training of our staff (i.e. proper rotation, adequate shelf life through cycle counts, daily sanitation roles, etc.).

The food safety and sanitation roles and procedures are outlined in the Southern Foods Food Safety and Sanitation Handbook and our HACCP Plan. The HACCP is known around the world as a means of controlling food processes to prevent microbial contamination and foreign material adulteration. It is a farm-to-table preventive food safety system designed by the food industry and government agencies, and we use it with the goal of significantly reducing food safety hazards such as, pathogens on meat, poultry and seafood. HACCP is a system of process controls to prevent, eliminate and control food safety hazards. We are proud to have delivery, warehouse, managment, and purchasing co-workers HACCP certified.

The Southern Foods warehouse has a pc-based monitoring system for temperature and humidity controlled rooms to maintain products at the optimum industry standards. In addition, Southern Foods maintains a refrigerated dock to control the quality of refrigerated and frozen goods during the receiving and shipping process.

We practice FOOD SAFETY everyday. We understand the importance of having a consistent product, and therefore our co-workers are following specific procedures designed to receive, store and ship quality products.

We invite our customers, vendors and other business partners to tour our facility at any time. We can provide assistance in training customers' staff on food safety and proper food handling procedures.