TransCert Shipper, Carrier and Receiver Training and
Certification Services
Sanitation, Traceability & Temperature Standards for Perishable
Transporters That Care About Food Safety and Quality
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Watch this video about HOT TRUCKS and the proposed rules on the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal FoodsCracking Down on HOT TRUCKS________________________________________________________________________________________
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FDA publishes FSMA Proposed Rule on Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal FoodClick the link below to download the document:
Proposed Rule on Sanitary Transportationof Human and Animal Food-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A message from your neighbors:
Walter Ram, vice president of food safety at the Giumarra
Companies, a produce distributor with divisions throughout the country, said “The quantum shift for us to change and
get a real culture of food safety means that we need to change that
outlook and realize that we’re producing food."
An effective food safety program should start with the head of the company, Ram said. “When it comes from the top, everybody
has to listen,” , adding the higher-ups at the company should
explain the benefits of food safety and the potential liabilities of a
lack thereof. In addition, food safety is “everybody’s job,” he said.
“One weak link can be disastrous for a whole company.”
“The quantum shift for us to change and
get a real culture of food safety means that we need to change that
outlook and realize that we’re producing food,” he said.
That includes the Transportation Operations group!
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The Road to TransCert Certification
Assess - Train - Audit - Certify
TransCert certification has been developed to guide the implementation of transporter sanitation and traceability standards. We are here to help you plan, measure and control
food delivery processes, provide food cargo
carriers sanitation and traceability training and help to implement traceability and sanitation
controls. We also help to develop the documentation needed to pass
TransCert certification audits. Our job is to help you avoid liability
issues and to meet legal governmental
food safety transportation and
handling HACCP standards.
Full carrier certification requires that you develop preventive plans that reduce the risk of food adulteration during food movement processes. Full operational certification for carriers mean that there is a qualified system that is appropriately managed, has a CODEX based HACCP plan for the type of product carried, provides container traceability, temperature
and humidity controls, is sanitized and that employees are appropriately trained to implement and continually operate to the TransCert standards listed below.
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Guide to Food Safety and Quality During Transportation:
Controls, Standards and Practices is a new book by John M Ryan.
The book, published by Elsevier Press, includes FDA and USDA guidance
information, standards and certification, and food safety and quality planning
procedures to establish a foundation for transportation system prevention,
implementation, standardisation, measurement and improvement.
http://www.elsevier.com/books/guide-to-food-safety-and-quality-during-transportation/ryan/978-0-12-407775-1
“Guide to Food Safety and Quality During Transportation
provides a sound foundation for the improvement of the transportation sector
responsible for the movement of food. While food safety agencies have been
focused on producer, processor, retail, and restaurant food safety, the
industry that moves the food has been largely overlooked. Ensuring trucks and
containers are properly cleaned and disinfected, proper maintenance of
refrigeration temperatures during transport, and avoiding paperwork delays are
all areas of concern. Lack of government oversight has resulted in multiple,
non-standardized approaches to food safety that are inspection-dependent,” the
publisher says.
“This book focuses specifically on the food movers normally overlooked by
today’s food safety auditors, compliance schemes, government agencies, quality
control personnel, and transportation executives. It outlines delivery control
solutions and provides basic standards designed to protect the transportation
industry, as well as addressing problems associated with food transportation
and practical solutions that are focused on container sanitation and traceability
food safety and quality needs.”
The book it written for those involved in ensuring the safe transport of
food commodities, including supply chain management, food safety management and
quality management personnel.
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If
you transport or cause food to be transported, standardizing and controlling
transportation processes in order to prevent food adulteration is critical. Your company must have a consistent ability
to meet customer and legal food safety compliance requirements. Containers, bins, trays, trailers, tankers, rail cars, reefers, ground and air pallets and other food carrying containers for cleanliness, temperature control, traceability and management record keeping in order to meet U.S. and international food transportation requirements.
It is clear that food container tracking,
sanitation, temperature and humidity control and record keeping are becoming
supply chain issues requiring increased attention across all company locations.
Introduce your
logistics professionals to newly evolving standards and to help them to develop
a customized system that will meet today’s logistics needs, satisfy your
customer’s food safety requirements and ready your food transportation
processes for upcoming legal requirements.
The
journey from “Where do we start?” to “We are compliant food safety carriers.”
begins with TransCert.
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Our customized
training and planning programs are designed to help you
upgrade and standardize
your company’s food transportation processes. Review all of the TransCert training programs by clicking our Training link.
Improve food safety and quality
Meet FSMA compliance requirements
Better manage the cold chain
Protect your customers Build the best reputation in your sector
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Read our latest article in Food Logistics
"A Dangerous Game to Play"
Click This Link
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Then Learn to Lead Your Company
The Sanitary
Cold Chain is now offering a Leadership Training course for selected
individuals chosen by their companies to lead new transportation food
safety certification requirements. If chosen as a transportation food
safety leader, you will be trained to enable your company to meet new
legal, customer and other transportation food safety standards and
practices that require new container Management, Training, HACCP,
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TransCert Single or Dual Certification
Air Freight Forwarders, Shipping Containers, Rail, Truck Fleets, Handlers and Air Cargo Transporters
If your company moves food through the supply chain,
cleanliness and traceability requirements apply to you.
Planes, trucks, shipping containers, pallets and all food holding
or moving containers must be numbered, documented, sanitary,
tested and traceable.
Our Sanitary Cold Chain standards will help you to comply with
newly evolving food safety logistics laws. We award our transportation certification (TransCert) certificates to companies meeting established food logistics standards. Once certified, your company may advertise your TransCert compliance status to customers demanding supply chain control.
To determine your level of compliance, click the "Take Our Test" link on the left and fill out the questionnaire.
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Pallet and Container Level Temperature Tracking
If you ship through the cold chain, you need to know pallet or container level temperatures in order to assure delivery quality control. Control and monitor of your own vehicle will not protect you if you pick up hot loads with short shelf lives. TransCert provides recyclable and independent temperature tracking systems to prevent improperly assigned liabilities.
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Sanitation Cleaning and Testing
New food safety laws require that all containers (farm-to-retail) used to hold or handle food are required to be sanitized, numbered, inspected and documented. At a potential cost of $244 per hour, the FDA may hold, test and inspect your truck, rail or container shipments and perform their own tests if you do not have appropriate documentation and certification.
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