Palmetto Canning Co., Inc. is committed to excellence in the production of food items by continuously improving our food safety culture and food quality programs designed to provide for safe operating practices and conditions while providing value to our customers.

GMP/Food Safety Culture, Policies and Training

The company has established a Food Safety Systems Approach to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and providing safe quality foods to our customers. Specific procedures to accomplish this goal are written and filed as part of the company’s “Food Safety Manual and SOP Manual’. The company’s Food Safety Manual is a commitment binding the operations to produce safe, quality and legal foods within the FDA governing regulatory codes.

• Employees are informed and held accountable for their food safety, food culture and regulatory responsibilities.
• Employees are positively encouraged and required to notify management about actual or potential food safety issues.
• Employees are empowered to act to resolve food safety issues within their scope of work.

The Food Safety Team evaluates its procedures and operations by a series of audits of its systems. A monthly audit of general operations and facilities and spot audits of food safety systems, such as Master Cleaning Schedules, are conducted on a regular base. These audits are evaluated and reviewed to establish continued food safety culture or a need for change. Customer complaints along with field failures are also part of the evaluation process of our food safety culture. All complaints are reviewed and evaluated to establish root cause and Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA) as required by the failure investigation. As part of our goals and commitment to our customers and regulatory agencies, our food safety culture systems aim to mitigate any risk that can compromise the safety and quality of our products, ensure that the necessary corrections and corrective actions are effectively taken, and sustainable practices and processes are guarantee through statistical evaluations and continuous improvement.