As part of the Total Quality philosophy we’ve established at Plus Berries, every player at each part of the process is aware of their role in the mechanism that ultimately allows us to deliver a quality fruit to our customers. From the adequate preparation of the infrastructures, to the collection and transfer to the packing facilities and finally the packaging and quality control prior to transport, there is no process that is unimportant to make our customers’ satisfaction possible.
STRICT CONTROLS AT EVERY
PRODUCTION PHASE
PICKED AT
THE RIGHT MOMENT
Harvesting is the first step in monitoring the quality of the product. It is of the utmost importance to raise the awareness of the collection staff to select the fruit alongside experts in the field and to reject those fruits that do not meet our quality standards, picking fruit only in its optimum state of maturity and placing it in the container with utmost care.
CERTIFIED
PACKAGING PLANTS
Once the fruit is transported to our packing centers, an initial quality control inspection is carried out in order to allocate each item in a way that best meets the needs and characteristics of the orders, depending on factors such as coloration and maturity of the fruit.
PRESERVATION AT
OPTIMUM TEMPERATURE
From entering our warehouses until the fruit leaves the circuit, we take care and observe that the fruit does not leave the cold chain, guaranteeing its preservation and maximum shelf life to avoid losses to our clients at their points of sale and, of course, to consumers in their homes.
PRODUCT
TRACEABILIT
This process, of paramount importance for food safety, encompasses all stages of production. The fruit is monitored from the time of harvesting, cultivation plots of origin are recorded, and monitoring continues until loading onto the trucks destined to our customers, so that a traceability code allows us to identify the origin of each fruit. This allows our clients to know definitively what treatments have been performed during fruit cultivation and thus ensure that the requirements imposed by the quality certifications of PLUS BERRIES have been fulfilled.
CALIBER
CLASSIFICATION
We are aware that each customer has their tastes and needs regarding the size of fruit that consumers prefer in the more than 30 countries to which we sell our fruit. We make every effort, be it manually or mechanically, to meet the expectations of our customers in this area.
They certify us
The satisfaction of our customers and consumers is the most important thing for us
GLOBAL G.A.P.
The GLOBAL G.A.P. certificate is a set of internationally recognized standards for good agricultural, livestock and aquaculture (GAP) practices. It certifies that the company applies good practices in the agricultural sector, controlling the traceability and quality of the fruit from the time it is on the plant or the tree until its arrival to the consumer.
BRC
This is a certification standard developed in the United Kingdom with international recognition, comprising the requirements of an HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control) system in accordance with Codex Alimentarius requirements, a documented quality management system, and monitoring of the requirements for environmental conditions of the facilities, products, processes and personnel. The BRC Global Standard for Food Safety has been developed to assist distributors in meeting legal food safety obligations and to ensure the highest level of consumer protection.
FIELD TO FORK
The F2F standard is a requirement for growers supplying British supermarket chain Marks and Spencer. This certification ensures that the production process has been carried out following the code of good agricultural practices and respecting and paying special attention to the environment.
SEDEX
This is one of the most widely used social auditing procedures in the world. It offers an internationally recognized way of assessing the activities of responsible supply chains, including labor rights, health and safety, the environment and business ethics. The main advantage for certified members is that suppliers and buyers can be sure that their business partners operate in a socially responsible manner.
COOP
Sygma Certification SL certifies that the requirements of the Sustainable Water and Soil Management program owned by COOPERNIC are satisfied for the following products: strawberries, nectarines, peaches and plums. Level awarded: green
GRASP
The acronym GRASP stands for GLOBALG.A.P. Risk Assessment for Social Practices, and is a ready-to-use voluntary module, developed to evaluate social practices in the farm, addressing specific issues related to the health, safety and welfare of workers.
Climate Partner
Currently, ClimatePartner certifies that the emissions we release comply with international standards, and neutralize the C02 we generate through carbon offset projects. As we are aware of our responsibilities to the environment, and although we have no legal obligation, we have decided to voluntarily invest in climate protection. We currently collaborate on two carbon offset projects: Cookstove Nationwide Peru and Vader Piet Aruba Wind Power.
IFS
The IFS certificate indicates that the certified company has established appropriate processes to ensure the safety of the products it produces and that it satisfies the specifications of its customers. We certify the processing, the handling of products and the activities carried out during the first stage of packaging.
Integrated production
The quality system proposed by integrated production entails certification by certifying bodies of agri-food products with specific standards and techniques that differentiate the product obtained and allows for its traceability. This is obtained as the product and its origin are known, in addition to facilitating the development of good processing practices.
Andalucía certified quality
“Certified Quality” is the brand created by the Junta de Andalucía that allows certified products to disclose their differentiated quality and thus guarantee to the consumers that these characteristics that are guaranteed by the appropriate controls meet certain required quality standards, or those more stringent than required by the regulations.
Innovative SME · La Canastita
Bearing an Innovative SME Seal means that the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness recognizes you as an accredited innovative company, having certified that during recent years you have carried out activities in the field of Research, Technological Development or Technological Innovation (R&D+i).
