Olive Care Accredited
Ensuring a safe quality food source
Chapman Hill is an Olive Care accredited olive grove.
The Olive Care programme was developed by the Queensland Dept of Primary Industry (DPI) in conjunction with a panel of processors and producers. The Olive Care Quality Assurance System has four components:
- Olive Care for growers - Approved Supplier Programme to processors
- Programme for HACCP Accreditation for Processors
- Chemical Testing of Olive Oil
- Sensory (Organoleptic) Tasting of Olive Oil by an Accredited Panel
The latter two components are subject to accreditation by the International Olive Oil Council and are required to identify oils that qualify for Extra Virgin status. A quality seal may be placed on bottled oil that has qualified through all four stages.
The focus of Olive Care is ensuring a safe quality food source for processing.
Olive Care for growers incorporates HACCP principles. The one-day course provides a framework for a grower to develop and maintain an approved supplier programme for their own grove. The course workbook includes practical ways to identify and control hazards using good horticultural practice, a checklist process for internal review within the grove and provides examples of documentation needed for product traceability, including chemical storage, grove application, harvest and transportation records.
Growers are certified after a successful audit undertaken by a HACCP trained processor, who will audit growers annually prior to harvest. The Processor is required to attend a 3 day HACCP course and be able to develop a HACCP Plan for the processing operation (this plan is externally audited and certified).
Learn more about our Olive Grove and
the Olive Varieties we grow.
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Sarah & Ross Thomson
Chapman Hill
Keeyuga
Glenaroua Victoria 3764
Australia
Tel: +61 3 5785 1207
Fax: +61 3 5785 1375
Mobile: +61 409 951 731
Email enquiries:
info@chapman-hill.com
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