n Editorial: “Together, we shall stay the best!” n ... - Smithfield Ferme

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Smithfield Ferme has successfully
implemented the Food Safety
Management System and obtained
the iSO 22000:2005 certificate.
at the end of 2010…
„ Smithfield Prod obtained the ISO
14001:2004 certificate in 2009 –
followed in 2010 by a supervisory audit
conducted with positive results”.
Smithfield Ferme obtained
the Food Safety Management System
Certification
n Article by Mircea Bitca – project coordinator for the implementation of ISO 9001, 14001, 18001 and 22000
at the end of last year, Smithfield
Ferme successfully implemented
the Food Safety Management System
and obtained the iSO 22000:2005 Certificate,
following the audit and certification
by TUV austria Romania.
By implementing the requirements
of iSO 22000 standard we can say that,
in terms of food safety, we meet all the
requirements to provide safe products
for the consumer’s health, up to the last
stage of swine production.
The implementation of iSO 22000:2005
standard provides the company with
an organizational framework in order
to identify, assess and control any potential
food safety hazard by specific
operation and control procedures.
With a view to continuously improving
the production processes, once the
implementation and certification of the
Food Safety Management System was
achieved according to iSO 22000, a detailed
analysis of the production process
was also conducted in every farm and
feedmills by the Food Safety Team. Following
this analysis, a number of checks
and monitoring actions were introduced
throughout and at the end of the production
process, and forms were developed
to register the results of these checks.
The implementation and certification
of this Food Safety system, as well as the
other ones already implemented and
certified, in terms of Quality, Environment,
Occupational Health and Safety,
does not mean that our effort to maintain
and improve them will stop here. A
program of internal audits and checks of
the working points will be developed in
the following period to collect as much
information as possible in order to raise
awareness of the employees and create
a professional, organized and performing
working environment.
One of the benefits of the audits and
checks is that they support the employees,
as information is collected about
the actual functioning of the processes
on site. This is why the involvement of
all the employees is required and desirable,
as it can only lead to improving the
performances of the company and, implicitly,
of each and every one of us.
SMITHFIELD PROD: Environmental audit – ISO 14001:2004 also in 2010
Smithfield Prod obtained the ISO
14001:2004 certificate in 2009 – followed
in 2010 by a supervisory audit
conducted with positive results. Our
goal for 2011 is to conduct our activity
so as to maintain the certification
obtained in 2009 and be 100% compliant
100% of the time. The implementation
and certification of an environmental
management system is a
No. 1 – March 2011
proof of the company’s commitment
to complying with the legal environmental
requirements.
Smithfield Ferme
& Smithfield Prod:
First in the
Top Companies
operating
in Timis County
NeWS
At the end of last year, in the month
of October, Smithfield Ferme and
Smithfield Prod were awarded two
important honors from Timis Chamber
of Commerce and Agriculture: 1st
prize for remarkable economic results
in the field of Agriculture and animal
husbandry, and respectively in the
field of Meat Processing Industry, in
the “Large Enterprises” category.
l These awards acknowledge the results
of the two companies within our group in
2009 and represent the most important
honors that Timis Chamber of Commerce
and Agriculture awards every year.
l Top Companies is a ranking of the economic
operators which reported exceptional
economic results, while also honoring
all their duties to the local budget
and to the State, being a barometer of a
county’s economic “health”.
FArm oF the month
Birda & ParTa
FarMS
For Best SOW and WTF
Performances
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