We receive and distribute over 200,000 cases of fresh and frozen food every day.

These aren't cases of widgets - this is the food that your families, and ours, buy in their local supermarkets and restaurants, and we want to make sure they’re handled properly.

Quality Assurance, Compliance &
H.A.C.C.P. Certification

Quality Assurance at Quirch Foods is overseen by our in-house QA management team, which has over 50 years combined experience in Food Safety and Compliance. QA incorporates product inspection, process management and regulatory compliance with both Federal and State food safety and labeling protocols.

Our QA program consists of:

• HACCP plans at all 4 distribution centers
• In- house inspection of product upon arrival
• Yearly third party audit for safe food handling based on stringent International guidelines as recognized by GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative).
• SQF 2000 Level II Certification with 2 onsite certified SQF Practicioners, would be completed by May of 2012.
• On site inspections by USDA and USDC as required.
• Traceabilty- (One up /One down) every case at arrival is tagged with a unique bar-coding number, which enables us to track every case throughout the supply chain, from the source and to the end user, as required under the FDA Modernization Act.
• All Imported product shipments have electronic data, supply Chain Temperature monitoring devices , that is required of all our import suppliers. The data is downloaded at arrival and checked for any possibility of temperature abuse during transport to final point of unloading.
  

Supplier Inspections

There are many programs in place both in the U.S and Globally, designed to ensure food safety. We feel it is of the utmost importance to make sure that we do everything we can to confirm compliance for ourselves.

Our QA Management Personnel perform on-site inspections and a food safety audits of our oversees suppliers yearly. We inspect facilities all over Asia and the Americas and assist these suppliers in bringing their operations into compliance with HACCP and other recognized food safety management programs. The cost is significant but this is a sound investment for us to ensure that the products we procure are safe and wholesome.

We are very proud of our QA program and will continue to maintain the highest of standards to assure you, our customers and you, the consumer are receiving the highest quality and safest foods available.