services - food safety - traceability

It is an essential feature of a Food Safety System that finished products can be traced back to their raw material and thus to their original producer. At Wilson's we have introduced a bespoke software package, written in-house, to control all aspects of ordering and production.

The Process starts with orders being placed with approved suppliers and entered on the System. This information is available via our internal network to Goods-In, Production and Accounting Departments.

At Goods-In the products are checked for specification, de-boxed into Hygiene trays and labelled. This label has a unique Goods-In Code, which identifies the original order.

At Production the product is removed from storage and an entry is made onto the system which allocates a Product Identification Number (PIN), and prints out a Quality Assessment document. This document records "who did - what to - when" information along with temperature and specification checks.

The product is then butchered to specification, and packaged with a new label showing the PIN. The PIN is recorded on each Customer order form. This assures our Customers that should a problem develop, we can not only trace back the product history, but also recall product from other Customers if necessary.