Procurement of excellent quality meat

Hartjes Meat Processing and OrangeTop exclusively use fresh meat of excellent quality, procured fresh from only the best EG-approved suppliers using certified quality control methods. Before receiving any supply of goods, we request thorough product specifications, recent bacteriologic analyses and a signed declaration declaring no risk regarding falsehood, fraude and assurances for accurate product descriptions, eliminating risk for diluting and/or replacing raw materials and any claims (such as BLK) are guaranteed.

Our certificates and qualifications

  • An EC approval under number NL116EG
    • Approval of foodstuffs: repackaging facility
    • Approval of foodstuffs: cold store
    • Approval of foodstuffs: production facility for minced meat
    • Approval of foodstuffs: production facility for meat preparations
    • Approval of foodstuffs: cutting plant for meat from domestic ungulates
    • Approval of foodstuffs: cutting plant for poultry meat
    • Approval of foodstuffs: meat products company
    • Registration of animal by-products: trade in category 3 material consisting of ` other unprocessed animal by-products (Cat 3 TRADE RAW)
    • Registration Export Channelization System (EKS) approx. 350 product/country protocols
    • Registration Export: cold store Canada
    • Registration Export: cold store beef South Africa
    • Registration Export: cold store pork Vietnam
    • Registration Export: cold store pork South Africa
    • Registration Export: other processing beef meat Canada
    • Registration Export: red meat products Canada
    • Registration Export: beef products Sourh Africa
    • Registration Export: pork products Vietnam
    • Registration Export: pork products South Africa
    • Registration Export: heated products human consumption Canada
    • Registration Export: packaging and storage Canada
    • Registration Export: red meat products Canada
    • Registration Export: meat products company South Africa
  • ISO 22000:2018 certification in combination with the maintained BRCGS food safety standard with additional Pré-SSOP and SSOP audit rounds from the USA
  •  Halal Certification, this represents everything that can be seen as good and pure by the Koran. Halal meat is bled meat from a limited number of animals,
  • which are usually slaughtered without slaughter, when Allah is invoked and blessed by the Imam.

 

Quality control

Hartjes Meat Processing has its own Quality Control department. This department not only controls the quality control system with corresponding workplace activities, it also oversees automated reports, staff training, daily hygiene audits, monitoring of analyses, product development and internal and external audits.

Quality Control takes weekly Plate Coutn Agar samples and periodic testing using Listera swabs for confirming the effectiveness of cleaning strategies and assuring production in a hygienic, safe environment.

Laboratory

Hartjes Meat Processing partners with an RvA-approved external laboratory according to scope L509. There are special agreements with this laboratory for rapidly processing analyses. For certain clients we sample production runs during production for same-day sample delivery at the laboratory. The laboratory tests the samples right away, for example for Salmonella ssp. qPCR) and test results are confirmed to the client and ourselves the following day, assuring safe processing of the supplied products. Hartjes Meat Processing generally samples following regulation “Vo. (EG) 2073/2005”.

Food safety

We hold food safety in high regard while processing meat. By investing in training and guidance of our staff, Hartjes Meat Processing employees have an intrisic motivation for working hygienically and efficiently. Quality and food safety go hand in hand at Hartjes Meat Processing.

Automization

Naturally, Hartjes Meat Processing works with automatized processes. Pallet processing, for example, used to be done on manually written forms, whereas today, the pallets are scanned for optimal traceability of location, origin, slaughter dates and so on. Even complex, composite products are fully traceable.

Consistant quality

Under strict quality control, using fresh resources and CE-approved and well-maintained machinery, operated by well-trained personnel, Hartjes Meat Processing guarantees consistant quality.