Natureland - Banana Yoghurt with NZ Peach
120g pouch

The Farm

Trusted Suppliers

• Natureland has established trusted relationships with its suppliers to ensure consistency of supply.
• Wherever possible, ingredients are sourced locally from farms and orchards throughout New Zealand.
• Each supplier must demonstrate high standards of quality against Natureland’s approved supplier programme.
• Each ingredient is managed at the factory to ensure traceability and are checked for safety and quality before they are released for use.

The Factory

Factory Assurances

• The factory operates under a Risk Management Program (RMP) where processes are regularly assessed by independent auditors to ensure compliance to New Zealand Regulations and Acts.
• The factory additionally holds BRC (British Retail Consortium) Accreditation, an internationally recognised Food Safety and Quality Program.

Processing Assurances

• Each recipe and batch is produced using customised, precise thermal processing methods to ensure safety, quality and consistency of flavour and texture.
• To ensure compliance against operating procedures, critical steps including time, temperature and pressures of vessels are monitored throughout the process using calibrated equipment.
• Samples are regularly taken from the production line and checked for quality and pouch integrity.
• Each pouch is uniquely coded with the manufacturing time, production line number and best before dates.

Storage Assurances

• The pouches are stored within Natureland’s own secure warehouse before being transported to the wharf.

Shipping

The freight company ensure that the products are accompanied by all EAD (export accompanied documents) that is required by the importing country including:

• customs documents
• other documentation required by the importing country must be completed and approved before it can be loaded on board the ship.

The product is shipped to China and checked on arrival by China Customs.

China Customs check and confirm all requirements have been met and may test the product again prior to releasing it into their country.

Once cleared by customs the product is sent to the distribution warehouse.

Retail

• Once the products arrive at the warehouse they are managed using barcoding and traceability systems.
• No product leaves the warehouse until it receives a final quality check.
•  Products are packed onto delivery trucks and distributed to online and retail stores.
• Retailers ensure that the product is fresh by using good stock rotation, and checking the best before dates before selling the products to consumers.
• The AsureQuality AQ Assured Verification Code can be scanned to be sure of the safety and quality measures undertaken throughout the product supply chain.

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