QUALITY,

FOOD SAFETY

AND THE ENVIRONMENT

This department has a large, qualified team divided into different areas: quality, veterinary, laboratory and the environment.

Quality
In addition to monitoring the HACCP process (hazard analysis and critical control points), handling complaints, and inspecting cutting, filleting, and meat product activities, this area is in charge of supervising, implementing, and certifying certified management systems.
 
Our production process has been modified to meet the strictest requirements for quality as well as legal requirements.
 
Additionally, our company’s internal employees continuously monitor the entire process to ensure that the product and all of its operations adhere to our company’s quality and food safety policy.
VETERINARY

Ante-mortem examinations and ensuring adherence to requirements for animal care during transit, unloading, stabling, and slaughter are the responsibility of the facility’s in-house veterinarians. Additionally, they perform post-mortem checks, record all paperwork, note seizures, and compile the data needed for exports beyond the EU.

THE ENVIRONMENT

Controlling and administering the plant’s waste treatment facility in line with the standards established by the Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro are the main duties of this area. This is in addition to treating drinkable water, controlling waste and air emissions, and creating new environmental chores including avoiding infestations and administering legionella treatments for health and safety.

INTERNAL LABORATORY

Four separate sections of our on-site laboratory, which uses the most cutting-edge and unconventional scientific methods, make up our facility. Aside from analyzing human samples, the Covid laboratory also validates analytical controls on meat products, surfaces, work utensils, and packaging material. These laboratories include the parasitology lab with its corresponding trichinoscopic area, the water lab where water parameters are tested and validated for both drinking water and the treatment of wastewater, the microbiology lab for processing samples and performing useful life studies, and the laboratory for water.

Also, Bopepor is the only plant in the nation to have deployed a highly creative trichinae larvae detection method that was adopted by our own internal laboratory. With this alternative procedure, filtration is used instead of decantation of the samples, and a latex agglutination test in place of trichinoscope visualization serves as the final step in the detection process. The Centre de Investigación y Tecnologa Agroalimentaria de Aragón, an organization that verified this unique approach so that it could be used in the Bopepor laboratory as well as in the many trichinae laboratories throughout Spain, gave its approval for the adoption of this technology.

TRACEABILITY FROM START TO FINISH

The state-of-the-art technology used at Bopepor allows for improved agility in the pursuit of full traceability and, consequently, enhanced food safety. Automated systems that employ an independent chip store all essential, required product information.

Traceability systems are extremely important considering they provide internal information that facilitates process control and management, they help to guarantee safety, and they also help to locate and immobilise products, if necessary.

QUALITY SEALS; CONFIDENCE AND PRESTIGE

Our quality seals and certificates, which are periodically renewed, guarantee the highest levels of quality and food safety in our company’s processes, products and services.

IFS

This seal guarantees the quality, safety and transparency of the products produced. It is a guarantee of trust and prestige via which compliance with food regulations and rigorous control in all processes are ensured.

BRC

The BRC Food Safety Standard is designed to provide the basis for certification for food manufacturers who implement good manufacturing practices and have supporting quality management systems.

WELFARE QUALITY

We also renew our Welfair™ Animal Welfare certification every year as a sign of our commitment and involvement in the protection and care of animals. In addition, this international certificate reflects a greater commitment to product quality and to a more demanding and respectful production and consumption model.