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Approx. 7 years ago we embarked on a major upgrading programme in order to pre-empt the much vaunted at the time food safety act. This has taken the form of a rolling programme that is only now after so many years and expenditure in the region of £450,000 plus, reaching fruition.

Details are too numerous to list but some of the more major items installed include-:

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1. Pressurised work rooms with specially designed filter systems for input and extract air.
2. Extensive use of blast chilling for cooked product.
3. Air conditioned cutting/preparation rooms.
4. Extensive additional dedicated refrigeration.
5. The extensive use of stainless steel for drains, manholes, gulleys, pipework, walls, flooring, ductwork, canopies waste handling and refrigeration as well as the more obvious uses such as hand wash stations and table work.
6. The complete use of colour coding for work areas, utensils, cleaning equipment, product handling equipment, staff clothing etc. to ensure the complete segregation of raw and cooked areas.
7. Seamless colour coded resin floors throughout and polypropylene cladding to selected walls and ceilings.
8. New specially segregated and refrigerated delivery vehicles.
9. The installation at both shops of sophisticated computer controlled product weighing/labelling and cash handling systems, all linked by modems.
10. The capability to deal directly with some of our major customers directly using E.D.I. (Electronic Data Interchange) as well as buying from electronic livestock auctions.
11. Sophisticated, state of the art metal detection with a machine specially designed and built in stainless steel.
12. The installation of a computer based H.A.C.C.P. system, one of the first such systems in the country, that will eventually take over and expand our already comprehensive paper based system.
13. Samples of our products are sent for microbial analysis, on average once every 2/3 weeks, to our contracted pathology lab.

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