Quality and Food Safety - Agricola Piconi

Being recognized and certified under the IFS Food standard and maintaining an active SGQ&SA system represents an opportunity to pursue the systematic improvement of methodologies, ensuring the safeguarding and protection of the company's know-how.

The Piconi Alessandro Agricultural Company aims to achieve and maintain a competitive position in the market, ensuring long-term prospects for the organization and its staff.

The Management considers the following essential points:

• Maximum collaboration with other group companies to promote and increase organic production, while maintaining the related certification;
• Continuous improvement of our agricultural production, ensuring it is always safe, authentic, legal, and of high quality;
• Clearly identifying customer needs, communicating them internally, and adapting work processes to meet specific technical requirements and professional commitments;
• Ensuring that customer needs are understood and pursued;
  Continuously improving internal processes, eliminating potential anomalies and waste through comprehensive and conscientious process self-monitoring by staff at all stages of production;
• Enhancing communication with third parties involved, regarding food safety issues;
• Ensuring compliance with legal and environmental requirements, periodically assessing adherence;
• Ensuring compliance with current food safety regulations, as outlined in the HACCP manual;
• Setting goals to protect the safety and healthiness of our food production;
• Providing continuous education and training to human resources to ensure an efficient and effective application of the Quality System, Food Safety, and HACCP self-monitoring;
• Motivating and ensuring that staff are always in a position to carry out the tasks for which they are qualified, involving them in their roles and responsibilities concerning food safety, healthiness, and authenticity;
• Defining and maintaining a plan for the continuous development of a culture of Quality and Food Safety;
• Prioritizing prevention and internal investigations to protect food safety, significantly reducing the likelihood of incidents and potential emergency situations related to quality, safety, and legality;
• Strengthening the reliability of suppliers through an ethical partnership approach with key suppliers of one or more product types, and carefully monitoring and continuously evaluating them to ensure consistency in purchases made according to the specific requirements of the Piconi Alessandro Agricultural Company.

As part of these objectives, maintaining certification under the IFS Food standard and organic certification, while actively supporting the SGQ&SA system, is considered essential.

Additionally, alongside the general objectives listed above, specific annual objectives will be defined and communicated to all staff through the Management Review document, and their implementation will be verified during subsequent reviews. Everyone is committed to understanding, promoting, and implementing this company policy. The staff of the Piconi Alessandro Agricultural Company, through appropriate training in their tasks, are equipped to meet these objectives by:

• Motivating and involving them;
• Developing their cultural, professional, and technological skills;
• Organizational flexibility;
• Quality of services provided;
• Selecting suppliers and partners who share our vision on quality and food safety issues;
• Implementing necessary actions to prevent all forms of accidents and potential emergency situations related to quality, safety, and legality;
• Developing and maintaining the Quality and Food Safety Management System;
• Systematic initiatives for promoting the company’s policies and programs.

Furthermore, the Management ensures that this policy is understood and implemented at all levels of the organization and made available to customers upon request.

Finally, we remind you that the satisfaction of the Management is closely linked, not only to our pride in producing safe and sustainable food from our land, but also to the satisfaction of our clients who find it worthwhile to choose us, and to our employees, who consider our organization a good place to work, with a strong focus on food safety and ethics.

The Management, by making available all the necessary human, technical, technological, and financial resources for achieving these objectives, proposes this policy and places it in the hands of everyone.

Cascia, lì 30 giugno 2023

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