Suntreat Food Safety

Suntreat’s Food Safety & Food Security programs, implemented since 2002, include a full time Food Safety Officer and Quality Control Department located on-site. Suntreat uses a systematic and scientific approach to these programs, ensuring the safest, highest quality and best tasting citrus to our customers.

Suntreat’s Food Safety Program includes:

• Following Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), Good Handling Practices (GHP), and Good Management Practices (GMP)
• Utilizing Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles at all levels of production and storage
• Twice monthly third-party pest monitoring and control
• COOL (Country of Origin Labeling) compliance on all packaging
• Employee training- Worker sanitation and hygiene practices, plant cleaning and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs)
• Monthly internal audit inspections
• Traceback and Recall – including semi-annual mock recall Suntreat’s products are completely traceable throughout the supply chain through the use of GS1 Databar stickers and we are compliant for GTIN carton traceability.
• GFSI compliant through annual third-party food safety audits