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McDougall Acres’ Supplier Commitment to Quality and Safety applies to all who supply goods or services to McDougall Acres. We seek to do business with supply partners who share our commitment to quality and food safety. McDougall Acres strives to follow established food safety standards. We have an audited food safety program that implements the principles of a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) recognized scheme to ensure a consistent, safe, and high-quality product is provided to our customers.

As farmers ourselves, we know that we all care about the quality of the food we grow. We need to be able to communicate this to our customers, so we ask you, our valued grain suppliers, to acknowledge your commitment to farming practices that actively minimize possible sources of contamination.

Suppliers Commit to:

Minimize hazardous foreign material. It can be difficult to remove or detect foreign material in grain and some can be harmful if consumed. This includes glass, hard plastics, wood, and metal.
Follow label instructions for Crop Protection Products. In-crop chemical applications should follow the manufacture’s label instructions regulated by the Health Canada Pest Management Regulatory Agency to minimize the risk of high chemical residues.
Use Clean Equipment for Storage & Grain Handling. Chemical residue can come from farm equipment, storage bins and truck trailers. Ensure that at the end of seeding any seed treatment residue and granular fertilizer is washed completely away.
Minimize mouldy grain. Grain suppliers must manage moisture and storage issues. High moisture encourages moulds. Moulds can produce mycotoxins that can in turn cause illness when consumed.
Minimize allergen contamination. Allergens such as wheat, soybean, and mustard can impact marketability.
Pest Management. Maintain storage structures to minimize the occurrence of insects, rodents or other animals, and excreta.

Failure to follow any of the above commitments may result in a rejected load and may impact your supplier status.

Lastly, we may ask grain and pulse suppliers to provide documentation relating to their crop: what chemical products were applied to their crops during the growing season, what was the moisture at harvest, did they dry their crop, and what year was it produced?

More information on the standards and regulations:

Guide to Crop Protection:

http://publications.gov.sk.ca/documents/20/87089-2017%20Guide%20to%20Crop%20Protection_complete.pdf

ca:

https://albertawheat.com/media/press-releases/introducing-farmsustainability-ca-an-online-tool-to-advance-farm-sustainability

Comparing GFSI Recognized Standards:

https://www.foodprocessing.com/assets/wp_downloads/pdf/whitepaper-comparing-gfsi-standards.pdf

McDougall Acres’ Supplier Commitment to Quality and Safety applies to all who supply goods or services to McDougall Acres. We seek to do business with supply partners who share our commitment to quality and food safety. McDougall Acres strives to follow established food safety standards. We have an audited food safety program that implements the principles of a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) recognized scheme to ensure a consistent, safe, and high-quality product is provided to our customers.

As farmers ourselves, we know that we all care about the quality of the food we grow. We need to be able to communicate this to our customers, so we ask you, our valued grain suppliers, to acknowledge your commitment to farming practices that actively minimize possible sources of contamination.

Suppliers Commit to:

Minimize hazardous foreign material. It can be difficult to remove or detect foreign material in grain and some can be harmful if consumed. This includes glass, hard plastics, wood, and metal.
Follow label instructions for Crop Protection Products. In-crop chemical applications should follow the manufacture’s label instructions regulated by the Health Canada Pest Management Regulatory Agency to minimize the risk of high chemical residues.
Use Clean Equipment for Storage & Grain Handling. Chemical residue can come from farm equipment, storage bins and truck trailers. Ensure that at the end of seeding any seed treatment residue and granular fertilizer is washed completely away.
Minimize mouldy grain. Grain suppliers must manage moisture and storage issues. High moisture encourages moulds. Moulds can produce mycotoxins that can in turn cause illness when consumed.
Minimize allergen contamination. Allergens such as wheat, soybean, and mustard can impact marketability.
Pest Management. Maintain storage structures to minimize the occurrence of insects, rodents or other animals, and excreta.

Failure to follow any of the above commitments may result in a rejected load and may impact your supplier status.

Lastly, we may ask grain and pulse suppliers to provide documentation relating to their crop: what chemical products were applied to their crops during the growing season, what was the moisture at harvest, did they dry their crop, and what year was it produced?

More information on the standards and regulations:

Guide to Crop Protection:
http://publications.gov.sk.ca/documents/20/87089-2017%20Guide%20to%20Crop%20Protection_complete.pdf
Farm Sustainability:
https://albertawheat.com/media/press-releases/introducing-farmsustainability-ca-an-online-tool-to-advance-farm-sustainability
Comparing GFSI Recognized Standards:
https://www.foodprocessing.com/assets/wp_downloads/pdf/whitepaper-comparing-gfsi-standards.pdf

This McDougall acres’ Supplier Commitment to Quality and Safety is agreed to by the undersigned producer or through their authorized representative.

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