Food safety is one of the food processing and distribution industry’s most critical concerns. “Our mission is to basically ensure our customers’ success,” Murphy says. To that end, Sierra Pacific adheres strictly to customer and global safety requirements. “Our BRC food safety processes and teamwork drive our food safety program. Whether it’s peanut butter or frozen fruit and vegetables, we have to make sure that our systems have the same tracking that our customers build into their manufacturing so that we can instantaneously tell our customers where everything they made goes. Every system, every procedure, every plan that you have in place in your facility has to be dedicated to tracking that particular item through the process correctly.”
Sierra Pacific is actively involved with the FSMA rules development with American Frozen Foods Institute and the Global Cold Chain Alliance as well as with other industry groups as the California League of Food Processors, Warehouse Education and Research Council, IWLA and others.