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Food safety and quality 103-2 | 103-3
Daily internal self-monitoring programs, are maintained at each of the Company units, inclu- ding the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) program, Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP), Sanitation Ope- rating Procedure (SOP), Specified Risk Material (SRM), Animal Welfare (AW) and Good Manu- facturing Practices (GMP).
All production units are inspected by Brazil’s Fe- deral Inspection Service (SIF) and are certified for a wide variety of countries, based on strict sanitation controls that are frequently supervised by regulatory agencies. Units in Paraguay, Uru- guay, Colombia and Argentina are also subject to inspections by the corresponding local federal inspection agencies.
Traceability 103-2 | 103-3
Minerva Foods uses a tracking system that mo- nitors every step in the value chain, from the procurement of cattle to the delivering of the fi- nal product to the consumer. In addition to The Brazilian System of Identification and Certifi- cation of Bovine and Bubaline Origin (SISBOV, its acronym in Portuguese), a tracking system administered by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Company has created a series of cattle con- trol programs at ranches of commercial part- ners, as mentioned under the Supplier Chain item in this chapter.
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