Elements and Performance Criteria
- Receive product
- Workplace is cleaned before commencement.
- Product to be received is checked before weighing against the specification for the species and is visually inspected for any signs of spoilage, defects and parasites, and defective product is identified, set aside and appropriate person notified.
- Accepted product is weighed, allowing for drainage of liquid from fresh product, and weight recorded.
- Identification and traceability of product is checked and recorded.
- The temperature of fresh and frozen product is checked and recorded, and action taken, if necessary, to maintain temperature at level required to meet food regulations or to sustain live product.
- Prepare product for distribution
- Product is prepared, if necessary, according to customer specifications.
- Damaged and defective product is set aside for disposal by appropriate person.
- Product is packaged according to customer specifications, ensuring that the requirements of the transport company and relevant food regulations are met.
- Product packaging is checked to ensure the product temperature remains at the required level until product is received by customer, taking full account of possible delays that may occur.
- Appropriate product packaging is applied to live product, if necessary, to ensure that product remains alive during distribution.
- The wellbeing of product accepted as live is maintained to ensure that it will remain alive until received by customer.
- Product is labelled according to relevant food regulations, ensuring that original identification of the product can be easily established.
- Distribute product
- Product is taken to or collected by transport company and appropriate dispatch forms are completed and filed.
- Temperature of fresh and frozen product before final dispatch is measured and recorded to ensure compliance with food regulations.
- Water quality and temperature of live produce is measured and recorded.
- Customer is notified of the time and place of product delivery and advised of consignment number or other means of identifying product.