Quality Control

AB Texel UK are committed to meeting and maintaining the relevant Codes of Practice required to comply with the safety, transportation, storage, packing and the supply of foodstuffs and other goods. The information below provides more information on these critical quality issues; the relevant AB Texel UK Ltd. certifications can be seen at the side of this page.

HACCP (ISO 22000)

In many countries around the globe, legislation on the safety and suitability of foodstuffs demands the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Code of Practice to be put in place by any food business or organization, whether profit-making or not and whether public or private, carrying out any or all of the following activities:

Preparation
Processing
Manufacturing
Packaging
Storage
Transportation
Distribution
Handling or offering for sale or supply of foodstuffs

According to Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs, all food business operators in the European Union shall implement HACCP. They shall ensure that adequate safety procedures are identified, documented, maintained and reviewed on the basis of the principles used to develop the system of HACCP.

GMP+

(European Certification for HACCP) - The purpose of this Code of Practice is to control the risk of cross-contamination of animal feeds. Loading sequence, cleaning and disinfection are major control measures to prevent cross contamination. These control measures with respect to transport sequence, cleaning and disinfection are the result of a generic risk assessment for the transport of animal feeds. These control measures embody the European implementation of the HACCP Code of Practice for the transportation of animal feeds.

TASCC

(UK Certification for HACCP) - This Code of Practice includes a set of minimum standards to ensure food/ feed safety which hauliers must meet when handling and transporting various categories of goods. The list is not exhaustive but includes:

All combinable crops, e.g. grain, pulses (peas and beans) and oilseeds (rapeseed and linseed), as-grown cereal seeds and herbage seeds (grass, clover, etc.), pulse seeds and oilseeds for seed processing.
Feed materials, compounds & additives (raw materials, straight feeds, compound feeds & feed additives) as defined under the Feeding Stuffs (England) Regulations 2005.

Vehicles must be operated in accordance with this code of practice at all times both within the UK and abroad. The haulier must at all times exercise due diligence in the care of the goods and be conversant with and observe all relevant legislation. Current legislation requires food and feed businesses to have procedures based on Risk Assessment or HACCP.