"Food quality and food safety are important to Fort Boise.  We pride ourselves on optimizing our Quality Assurance program to ensure our customers satisfaction."

As a means of documenting and verifying our commitment to quality, Fort Boise farms, storage and packing facilities are certified by Primuslabs, Inc.  This allows us to assure compliance with the food safety requirements of the food and produce industry.  This certification also provides Fort Boise with a trace back program designed to document the origin of every bag of onions packed at our facility.

To assure that quality onions go into every bag packed at our facility, Fort Boise utilizes the Customer Assisted Inspection Program (CAIP), offered by USDA to grade our onions as they are packed.  CAIP provides Fort Boise Produce with a Federal-State inspection oversight, while we have our own trained, certified inspector onsite at all times during our packing runs.  (Top of Page)

"Fort Boise's Trace Recall program provides the ability to trace  packaged onions back to the field where they were grown."

 

In compliance with good manufacturing practices, Fort Boise incorporates a Trace Recall Program into our quality control procedures.  This is accomplished through the coding of product by identifying onions with a lot number given at the time of harvest.  That coded lot number follows the product from the field, to the storage facility, and to the packing facility where onions are stickered with the coded lot number.  Receivers and customers can then go online to view important food safety information regarding these onions.

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