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QUALITY ASSURANCE

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FOOD SAFETY & TRACEABILITY

A First-Class Food Safety Program

At Barnes Farming and Farm Pak, we place the utmost importance on our comprehensive food safety program. That’s why we have a comprehensive program in place, from growing to packing and from processing to shipping. It starts with keeping daily records of each field that includes growing, harvesting, curing, packing, and shipping our sweetpotatoes. Our sweetpotatoes maintain traceability from the field to the consumers’ fork!

Individualized labeling is one of our specialties; we have traceability codes available with registered Global Trade Item Numbers (GTIN).

 

Our Process

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QUALITY CONTROL

We integrate innovative quality control technology in everything we do

Quality and safety go hand-in-hand. We take special care to produce quality products protecting their integrity so they are safe for you and your family while still tasting and looking delicious.

Farm Pak’s packing operation is one of the most modern vegetable packing facilities in the United States. We integrate innovative quality control technology into virtually every aspect of our sweetpotato growing, packing, and shipping process. Below are a few details about our packing line, which uses the latest in computer technology.

 
 

Our packing line has:

  1. Digital cameras that instantaneously photograph each individual sweetpotato for grading and size purposes.

  2. Computerized grading to ensure our customers receive consistent premium sweetpotatoes.

  3. Automatic box fillers that tilt each box to cushion the sweetpotatoes.

  4. Individual sweetpotato inspection prior to final packaging.

Our temperature-controlled storage rooms enable us to provide the tastiest sweetpotatoes year-round and hold over 2 million bushels!

Only the finest quality sweetpotatoes, washed and sized to exact customer specifications, are delivered to our customer’s door. We are able to provide high-volume truckloads or individual, personalized orders.



CERTIFICATIONS

Farm Pak is certified to meet the highest standards of fresh produce production

 
 
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The GLOBALG.A.P. standard is primarily designed to reassure consumers about how food is produced on the farm by minimizing detrimental environmental impacts of farming operations, reducing the use of chemical inputs, and ensuring a responsible appro

The GLOBALG.A.P. standard is primarily designed to reassure consumers about how food is produced on the farm by minimizing detrimental environmental impacts of farming operations, reducing the use of chemical inputs, and ensuring a responsible approach to worker health and safety as well as animal welfare. Barnes Farming was honored to be the first company to receive GLOBALGAP certification for sweetpotatoes in the USA.

GRASP stands for GLOBALG.A.P. Risk Assessment on Social Practice. GRASP is a voluntary ready-to-use module designed to assess social practices on the farm. The requirements catalog consists of 11 standardized requirements and one additional QMS requ

GRASP stands for GLOBALG.A.P. Risk Assessment on Social Practice. GRASP is a voluntary ready-to-use module designed to assess social practices on the farm. The requirements catalog consists of 11 standardized requirements and one additional QMS requirement that address specific aspects of workers’ health, safety, and welfare. GRASP is designed to extend the social standards of your GLOBALG.A.P. Certification.

Recognizing the demand for a comprehensive, and transparent tool to verify compliance with best practice implementation, GAPC developed the certification program with extensive input from its member companies, member-growers, and third-party experts

Recognizing the demand for a comprehensive, and transparent tool to verify compliance with best practice implementation, GAPC developed the certification program with extensive input from its member companies, member-growers, and third-party experts. GAPC’s certification program will increase transparency and foster an environment that promotes sustainability, profitability, fairness, and competition.

Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Good Handling Practices (GHP) are voluntary audits that verify that fruits and vegetables are produced, packed, handled, and stored as safely as possible to minimize risks of microbial food safety hazards. GAP &

Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Good Handling Practices (GHP) are voluntary audits that verify that fruits and vegetables are produced, packed, handled, and stored as safely as possible to minimize risks of microbial food safety hazards. GAP & GHP audits verify adherence to the recommendations made in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Guide to Minimize Microbial Food Safety Hazards for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables and industry-recognized food safety practices.

This certification ensures that our organic crops are not exposed to synthetic chemicals during the planting, harvesting, and packaging process. We are inspected for the USDA Organic certification on an annual basis.

This certification ensures that our organic crops are not exposed to synthetic chemicals during the planting, harvesting, and packaging process. We are inspected for the USDA Organic certification on an annual basis.

We are one of the few farms to have both a Certified Crop Advisor and 4R Nutrient Management Specialist on staff. With these accolades, Josh is an expert in understanding soil and plant nutrition, allowing us to prescriptively add nutrients to the s

We are one of the few farms to have both a Certified Crop Advisor and 4R Nutrient Management Specialist on staff. With these accolades, Josh is an expert in understanding soil and plant nutrition, allowing us to prescriptively add nutrients to the soil, thereby reducing waste and overapplication.

MEMBERSHIPS

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North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission
North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission

The North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission is a nonprofit made up of North Carolina sweetpotato farmers. The commission advocates for sweetpotato consumption through education, promotional activities, research, and honorable horticultural practices among its producers.

American Sweet Potato Marketing Institute
American Sweet Potato Marketing Institute

The American Sweet Potato Marketing Institute (ASPMI) is a non-profit organization that promotes the United States’ sweetpotato industry to both foreign and domestic buyers. This organization promotes research in the science of sweetpotato horticultural practices, processes, and technologies to ensure the best quality produce for its members and consumers across the globe.