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Azzule Begins Offering Core Support Services

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) has had a profound impact on food companies. While large growers, packers, shippers, importers, and buyers have handled compliance with the new law relatively easily, smaller entities, especially importers and others that need to meet the demands of the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP), might find themselves without the personnel or Qualified Individual (QI) necessary to monitor the food safety of their suppliers.

These entities may be torn between two untenable solutions: either train a current employee with the food safety knowledge to function as their QI or hire a new employee that has the training and experience necessary to serve in that role. Fortunately, there is another way. Read on»

Updates & News

Welcome to our new Azzule Premium clients!

• Supreme Berry Farms
• Shenandoah Growers
• Giddings Fruit
• Frutera San Fernando S.A.
• Curation Foods

Check out all our Premium clients here!

Want to learn if Premium is right for your company? Contact us!
PrimusLabs Offers New Tests:            Hep A, Norovirus & Cyclospora

Hep A & Norovirus Testing: Salinas, Santa Maria & Yuma Labs

Cyclospora Testing: Yuma Lab

For information on Cyclospora Click Here

For more information on Hep A & Norovirus Click Here
PrimusGFS v3.1
Now Available


PrimusGFS v3.1 became available for use on July 17, 2019. In addition, PrimusGFS v3.0 will continue to be available for use until January 15, 2020. After January 16, 2020, only v3.1 may be used.  Read on »
 

Florida Laboratory on the Move

PrimusLabs is pleased and excited to announce that over the next few months, it will move its Florida laboratory from its current location in Belle Glade to Lakeland, Florida. We hope to have the Lakeland laboratory up and running by early January 2020. The new lab will provide us with more flexibility; extended sample receiving and supply shipment times; and a larger space allowing for more testing capabilities, expansion, and servicing, so that we can better address all of our customers’ testing needs.

The Belle Glade laboratory location will continue to process clients’ mailed samples until the week of Thanksgiving (November 25th, 2019). After that time, those customers who are mailing samples to our laboratories are asked to mail to either our Santa Maria, CA, Salinas, CA, or Yuma, AZ locations (see below). We can help you by supplying sampling supplies,
coordinating discounted shipping rates through FedEx, as well as providing you with pre-printed shipping labels.

Samples dropped off directly to the Belle Glade laboratory will be accepted until December 16, 2019. After that time, the Belle Glade laboratory will no longer continue operation.

We are looking forward to our move to the new facilities in Lakeland, Florida, and we vow to continue to offer our clients exemplary food safety sampling and testing services throughout the transition period and beyond. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to make PrimusLabs better. If you have any questions regarding the move, please feel free to contact us at salesgroup@primuslabs.com.

New to Azzule Auditing Software


2nd Party Audits Now Included in the Azzule Auditing Software

Azzule Auditing Software (AZAS) now offers users the option of performing and managing 2nd Party audits in the system similar to the current method by which 3rd Party audits are performed by certification bodies. Advantages of using the AZAS for 2nd Party audits include: audit data entry, corrective action management, and automatic translations between different languages, etc. Read on »
 
Azzule to Release McDonald’s GAP Addendum to PrimusGFS
 
Azzule is pleased to announce that it is releasing a new Good Agricultural Practices addendum for PrimusGFS to meet the needs of growers, harvesters, and shippers that supply to McDonald’s. Azzule’s approved PrimusGFS Certification Bodies will begin performing the new McDonald’s GAP addendum in early 2020. Read on »

 


 

Want to learn more? Email us at support@azzule.com for more info.

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