Quality Assurance

Techniques designed to ensure the safety of food for astronauts are the basis of SuJon’s new HACCP food safety programme.

SuJon has now been certified by the international agency SGS.

Certification is the process by which an independent third party like SGS audits and gives written assurance that a process, system or service conforms to specified requirements.

SuJon has adopted the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system, or HACCP (pronounced hassip) system. SuJon’s accreditation is thought to be the first for a berrryfruit processor in Australasia.

SuJon is Exempt from the Food Hygiene Regulations 1974 pursuant to section 8Fof the Food Act 1981. This means that the Director General of Health has decreed that the quality systems in place are of such a high standard that the company does not have to be inspected by Health Protection Officers in the usual manner.

So good is SuJon’s system that its manuals are being used by the Ministry of Health in its food safety officer training.

SuJon has its own centralised grading and packing facilities where fruit is carefully checked for quality prior to packing.

The SuJon processing plant is within an ISO 9002 approved freezing and cold storage facility where product is held for prompt dispatch by temperature controlled transport to distributors and customers in New Zealand.