TQA Australia is a not for profit, independent leader in quality solutions inspiring agri-business to be effective and innovative.
Past on-farm food safety, quality assurance and/or environmental management projects that TQA Australia have been involved in include:
Editing Guidelines for Environmental Assurance in Australian Horticulture.
A valuable tool for growers, advisers, service providers, NRM groups and trainers.
Developed by Australia's horticulture industires and trialled around the country by nearly 200 growers and more than 40 industry representatives and technical experts from a wide range of enterprises.
TQA Australia edited these guidelines and was the National Project Manager for the grower trials
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Gap Analysis in relation to Quality Management for the Supply Chain Management of Genetically Modified (GM) products.
(2003) The Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry commissioned an analysis of existing quality management systems with respect to their ability to address supply chain management of GM and non-GM products, particularly in relation to segregation and identity preservation.
The specific objectives of this report and analysis were to:
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Identify the key elements of supply chain management necessary to establish traceability and/or identity preservation for GM and non-GM products for representative supply chains
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Identify what is needed at the point of exit from the supply chain to be able to verify/certify the GM/non-GM status of products (domestic or export)
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Identify existing traceability, QA or QM components or systems that could be used in such verification/certification systems up to point of exit from the supply chain
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Identify gaps in the availability of systems
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Development of the Salad GAP food safety standard for salad producers.
TQA Australia was retained by the Fresh Salad Producers’ Forum to develop a set of good agricultural practices for the production of salad and to assist with the extension of these practices through delivery of training sessions in the main salad growing areas of Australia. The resulting program, which has become known as “Salad GAP” (Salad Good Agricultural Practices), was developed, trialled and rolled out to growers between March and October 2008. In tackling this task, TQA also considered issues related to implementation and verifying ongoing compliance with the good agricultural practices, as well as consistency of interpretation of the required standard of compliance. As a result, additional training resources were developed, including visual training guides, proforma records and supplier specifications, and training and audit guidelines were provided to external auditors.
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