A malting site owned by fifth-generation family business Simpsons Malt Ltd has reached a new level in global food safety standards.
Simpsons Malt’s Tivetshall maltings, in Norfolk
The company’s Tivetshall maltings, in south Norfolk, has passed its Food Safety System Certification (FSSC) 22000 audit.
The site was the focus of an intensive, three-day inspection, which examined the site’s entire operations and processes. These range from barley intake through to malt despatch. The audit followed several years’ work to raise and maintain quality standards.
Tivetshall supplies around 55,000 tonnes of malt per year worldwide to the brewing and food industries. Achieving FSSC 22000 had been viewed as a key company objective, as it is an internationally recognised standard.
“Achieving this internationally recognised standard has raised the bar for our internal operations and processes, with many new programmes having been implemented over the past few years that are now being maintained on a daily basis,” said Graham Kendall, operations director at Tivetshall.
“We also hope it will provide further confidence to our global network of customers in the brewing and food industries around the food safety and quality of our malts, for which we are renowned.”
