Food Safety Represents Our Organization’s Highest Priority.

“Superior” Food Safety Audit Achievements… the last 10 years running!

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South Mill emphasizes the fact that responsibility for quality assurance lies within each individual at the company. This personal approach is comprehensive as it relates to overall product quality. All department team leaders at South Mill, including maintenance, shipping, packing, cold storage, receiving, and transportation \ logistics meet on a routine basis for continuing educational training and best practice updates. When all personnel in receiving, packing, and shipping are assuming responsibility for all aspects of product quality; errors are greatly minimized. All plant equipment, farm practices, packing and processing have been brought into compliance under a company-wide HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) Program. In January of 2009 South Mill continued to add to its list of industry accomplishments by being the first and still the only mushroom farm in the United States to pass the recently developed USDA MGAP audit, a collaborative initiative of mushroom industry leaders in conjunction of USDA to undertake the most comprehensive food safety standards in the history of the mushroom industry. Our facilities and operations are continuously self-monitored and regularly audited and approved by the AIB (American Institute of Baking), a well-respected, independent association widely recognized for their high standards. We are proud of our record of consistently scoring in the 97 percentile and with 10 years of uninterrupted “Superior” performance ratings on all of our facility AIB Audits. All routine self-audits conducted at South Mill involve critical analysis of pest control, sanitation, operations and facilities, good manufacturing practices, product protection and product recovery.

To facilitate product identification and tracking, we have ink-jet coding equipment which applies a tracking code to each package identifying the growing room where harvested, the date packed in Julian terms and the packing line number and supervisor on duty. This code allows us to accurately track all of our products throughout the distribution system.

For the convenience of all our loyal customers, our dispatch and sales departments, located at our Kennett Square Headquarters, are available seven days a week. A dedicated South Mill representative is always just a phone call away!