Creating Healthy, Well-Rounded Dietary Habits
Securing safe, reliable food
Food safety is the issue that matters the most to us. After all, our most basic duty as a food manufacturer is to ensure the safety of our food, so that customers have peace of mind. We strive for excellence in food safety by operating a system of food safety management compliant with ISO 22000 and FSSC 22000.
Thorough analysis, proactive prevention
We listen to the concerns of customers and distributors, communicate their feedback to the relevant people, and update our business procedures accordingly. When the feedback concerns a quality issue, we take the necessary actions to prevent another such incident from occurring in the future. In each case, we examine what caused the incident and communicate our findings throughout the workplace. We also apply the lessons in other plants and other production processes as part of a proactive approach to accident prevention. For example, staff now use AI technology to assist the naked eye in checking for traces of bone fragments, packaging material, and other contaminants.
Remote auditing amid the pandemic
We have committed to obtaining certification in international standards on food safety management systems (FSSC 22000 and ISO 22000). Such certification forms a crucial step in our strategy to expand globally. Our food safety practices conform to the requirements of the US Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system, which came into effect in Japan in June 2021.
The coronavirus pandemic poses a challenge: audit teams are sometimes unable to conduct onsite audits. Accordingly, we have switched to remote audits. Specifically, our auditing teams use web conferencing tools to view in real time the site, the production activities, and documents. In onsite audits, audit teams access visual, auditory, and olfactory information. Remote audits provide no olfactory information, but they do provide the other two.
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