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As foodbourne illnesses flood the news, consumers are intensely focused on where the product is coming from and what practices are used to guarantee “safe” product.

At the Michael Cutler Company, leaders at all levels of our organization proactively choose to have a strong food safety culture. Our Quality Assurance program, starting at the farm and extending to distribution, is designed to produce safe, high-quality product. Using hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) techniques, our processes and procedures are documented and followed.  Some of the key elements include, but are not limited to:

· conducting a hazard analysis to identify hazards and the needed controls;
· identifying the critical control points and establishing limits for each control point;
· establishing monitoring procedures and corrective action steps;
· establishing verification procedures to ensure that corrective steps have been taken; documentation and recordkeeping to enable auditing.

Our employee commitment to a food safe culture is continuously strengthened through training programs, technical improvements from the fresh produce industry’s best practices and recognition of process and procedure compliance. Our on-site quality assurance managers verify product quality, appearance and taste, customer specifications, and that we exceed all government requirements.

Consumer communication is important to us. We provide clear and accurate labeling to help consumers make informed decisions, web-based information to educate consumers on the industry and its changes, and media advertising.

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Produce Traceability Initiative

Michael Cutler Company is at the forefront of the movement to develop an industry-wide produce traceability system. With all of the fresh food contamination scares in recent years, consumers and regulators are demanding better traceability systems. Michael Cutler Company fully endorses the Produce Traceability Initiative and has finished each milestone ahead of schedule.

With the upcoming PTI milestone of having human readable and bar-coded information at case level by the end of 2011 approaching, we will stay ahead of the PTI curve. This chain-wide, electronic traceability system offers business efficiency benefits to all members of the supply chain. In addition, it speeds up or otherwise aids governmental food safety investigations and tracebacks when needed. Know that you have full visibility of your supply chain traceability with Michael Cutler Company.

We are committed to providing the latest traceability standards to our trading partners to ensure a safe supply chain.