The company’s forward distribution centers, located in West Cranbury, NJ, Atlanta, GA and Indianapolis, IN, are instrumental in moving product to more than 74 percent of supermarkets nationwide, as well as to a growing number of restaurant and foodservice customers. The San Juan Bautista, CA-based fresh-cut produce company’s certified organic produce is grown on more than 24,000 acres in locations from California to New Zealand and it processes and packages more than 100 different varieties of organic salads, fruits and vegetables in state-of-the-art production facilities in San Juan Bautista and Yuma, AZ. Proactively preventing problems from farm to fork is the foundation upon which Earthbound Farm has built its food safety programs. “With the exception of potatoes perhaps, every vegetable is eaten raw some of the time and consumers don’t fully understand the necessity of properly cleaning their produce.” “You cannot rely on restaurant workers or homemakers to control food safety hazards,” he says. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Organic Program (NOP) certification requirements, preventing food safety hazards before they become a problem is vital to a successful food safety program, says Will Daniels, director of quality assurance for Earthbound Farm. When you’re managing the food safety program at the nation’s largest certified organic fresh-cut produce company-not to mention the largest grower and shipper of organic produce in North America-this simple adage is key to seed-to-shelf product safety.įor a company processing products that are consumed raw and for which the tools available for sanitizing them are limited due to their organic status under the U.S. It is always easier to avoid a problem than to fix it.

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