Food Safety and Quality Policy

O'Kane Poultry has been built on the reputation of the high quality of our products and is committed to producing safe and legal products which fully and consistently meet the agreed requirements of our customers in order to maintain and further develop our position as within the our customer supply base and poultry industry.

Our policy will be implemented through the process of planning for quality, taking appropriate actions consistent with Good Manufacturing Practices, checking the outcome of our actions, reviewing the quality management process to amend our planning activities and supporting change with appropriate job training and through continual improvement in the management of technical, food safety monitoring, Health and Safety and training.
The structure of the company's Quality Management System will be based on the British Retail Consortium Standard, Bord Bia, Quality British Turkey, ACP Chicken Quality Assurance Scheme Standard, and Customer Codes of Practice in conjunction with HACCP systems forming the corner stone of the System.

O'Kane Poultry Ltd wishes to build strong partnerships with our suppliers by encouraging teamwork through product / process development and acknowledged commitment.

O'Kane Poultry is committed to minimising the impact of its operations, activities and services on the environment by means of a continuous improvement environmental programme.

As a company we are committed to Global sourcing Principles and the Ethical Trading Initiative base Code.
It is our wish that every employee, from managing director to newest recruit, bears this in mind in the course of their daily work and consistently works toward continual improvement and excellence in all our activities.

O'Kane Poultry Ltd. have a responsibility to its employees by providing safe working systems, environment and procedures to minimise all significant risks and remaining a competitive quality producer to ensure job security for employees of the company.

The quality system is described in Quality manuals which provide documented procedures and instructions for all processes and products. Quality is the responsibility of all the company's employees and depends on their full compliance with the procedures laid down in the manuals. The Company will ensure that all employees are fully conversant with their quality aims by an education/training programme which will be ongoing and continually updated.

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Accreditations

 Logo Bord Bia - Irish Food Board
  www.bordbia.ie
              Logo ACP Red Tractor

  www.redtractor.org.uk

 Logo BRC - British Retail Consortium   www.brc.org.uk
              Logo Quality British Turkey

  www.britishturkey.co.uk
 Logo FSA - Food Standards Agency
www.food.gov.uk
              Logo Dard NI - Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
www.dardni.gov.uk
 Logo Soil Association
    www.soilassociation.org