Food Safety and Quality
Programs, Testing, and Monitoring
Powers has a thorough and comprehensive food safety and quality program. We take pride in all our products and our facility. Our Quality Assurance Department is highly trained and onsite during every phase of production. Our food safety record is impeccable and transparent.
GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative)
Accredited Scheme
Safe Quality Food (Edition 8) certified for Manufacturing
“Excellent” Rating - 3rd party audit (June 2019)
Robust food safety plan that includes:
Verified Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points (HACCP)
Strong Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)
Thorough and comprehensive Preventive Control Programs
Microbiological Testing
Environmental Monitoring
Finished Product Microbiological Testing
ATP testing
Adenosine triphosphate, or ATP for short, is the energy currency of life. ATP is a high-energy molecule found in every cell. Its job is to store and supply the cell with needed energy. This high tech testing is used to verify sanitation by measuring relative light units emitted by living or dead organic material.
On-site Aerobic Plate Count/E.coli /Coliform Testing
Allergen Control Program
Allergen sanitation testing using AllerSnap (measuring protein residues left behind by allergens), and specific allergen lateral flow testing.
Sanitation
Entire facility encompassing sanitation programs.
Quality Assurance Checks
Every 2 hours and at the start of every product run.
Critical Control Point
Monitoring & Records
Free Fatty Acid Testing
(FFA)
The acid content of edible fats is given by the quantity of free fatty acids. The more free fatty acid in the oil, the greater chance for rancidity. Powers maintains FFA levels significantly lower than manufactures standards.
High Oleic Sunflower Oil
High oleic sunflower oil is very high in oleic (monounsaturated) acid. The oil has a very neutral taste and provides excellent stability without hydrogenation. High oleic sunflower oil offers a Trans free oil solution.