Effectively applying quality management programs in seafood production and processing industry

The advanced quality management programs such as GMP / SSOP, HACCP, ISO 22000, ISO 9001,etc  have been applied by many enterprises in production activities, contributing to improving product quality and preventing risks food insecurity. Hiep Anh Seafood Processing Co.Ltd in Tinh Gia District – Thanh Hoa Province is an enterprise specializing in processing fish sauce, shrimp paste, jellyfish, dried seafood. In order to improve product quality as well as ensure food safety in production, since 2013, the Company has applied advanced quality management programs in seafood preliminary processing, processing and trading.

In the province, there are 81 preliminary processing and processing establishments for enterprises and thousands of small establishments and households. However, among them, only about 30 enterprises processing seafood have applied quality management programs (HACCP, ISO 22000, GMP / SSOP, etc) in production, business and industry. Anh Seafood Processing Co.Ltd is one of them.

In order to have a stable source of raw materials, the Company has linked and supported 100 fishermen in Hai Hoa and Hai Ninh communes in the locality to borrow investment capital to buy fishing nets and to buy products of fishermen. to process. Ms. Le Thi Lieu, Director of Hiep Anh Seafood Processing Co.Ltd, said: The application of advanced quality management programs, such as: GMP / SSOP, HACCP, ISO 22000,etc  helps the company. Strict management, the stages in the production process are strictly controlled, so the product quality is more and more stable. The quality management program helps the company to minimize costs for analysis, sampling and damage if the product is not up to standard.

In addition, the Company has signed a contract to provide fish sauce and shrimp sauce products to supermarket chains and safe food stores in the province and outside the province. The company has exported thousands of liters of fish sauce and shrimp sauce every year, with annual sales of up to 10 billion.

Through the fact that the models of safe seafood production and processing in Tinh Gia show that ensuring food safety and hygiene and ensuring product standards give processing facilities a chance to open. broad consumer market. However, the number of enterprises and processing facilities that meet these requirements in Tinh Gia is too small. Among 200 enterprises and seafood processing establishments in Tinh Gia, there are only 10 enterprises, which meet the criteria of labels, goods origin and branding. The rest is produced and processed in a non-origin manner, sold in batches by weight, without certificates of eligibility for food production and trading, and precarious consumption of products. Through the application of quality management programs in preliminary processing and processing of food, the Company can demonstrate that products are controlled by quality and ensure food safety, meeting the increasing requirements of consumers.

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