The company is located very close to an area where pests of both rodents and insects proliferate, there is much landslide due to the wind in the area and it has a nearby irrigation canal through which effluents from other companies, towns in the area and even pass the same company discharges its effluents there, both from production and from its administrative activities. The facilities are built of noble material and the distribution design was not optimal for all areas, including lighting and ventilation.
The floors are made of noble material, they are not washable and have many irregularities on their surface. Its walls are smooth and covered with white epoxy paint. Windows are only protected by mosquito nets. In the area where the operational processes are carried out, excessive luminaires per m² have been placed and they do not have greater protection than the factory plastic with which they were purchased.
The production area has some guidelines for water control, suppliers, disinfection, cleaning and maintenance. But they have seen the need to control the issues of proper handling of the product before packaging, traceability of processes, use of cleaning chemicals that are ecologically healthy, deratization, control of waste from administrative and production offices, as well as control of Insect pests that affect storage and workers' health.
They also found that the improper storage of their coffee beans affected the facilities and the locality, since there had been a plague of rodents in previous years.
They have not yet scheduled training on preventive and corrective measures in the face of poor hygiene practices for operational personnel and those for quality control of product samples.
The water used in their cooling processes for their boilers is a potential polluting source and can cause problems for the machinery since it contains residual chlorine that exceeds the LMP. As mentioned, the wastewater is discharged into the canals in the area.
There are documented disinfection and cleaning protocols that are carried out on a scheduled basis and consider eliminating dirt, only removing it, without using special products for the case, use of common detergents, degreasers, both for the tools and for the machinery used, it is about of removing the waste so that disinfectants can be applied later and leaving the areas free for the operation, this is still not 100% effective.
In the part of reception of coffee batches in the area, the proper inspection and analysis by sampling is carried out and then the common quality tests of the coffee sector to avoid microbial contamination, but the Management found that a review or tests were not carried out of the use of insecticides in the area where the purchased lot comes from, nor the antimicrobial materials in the storage area of the quintals of coffee purchased where there is a presence of earth, stones, wood or straw that arrives from poorly washed warehouses.
In the drying process of the grains, delays were observed due to the degree of humidity that was acquired in storage and in the packaging stage, microbial contamination has been observed due to poor sealing of the bags and placement in the cardboard boxes.
The packaging manufacturing plant operates 24 hours a day and produces an average of 20 tons of pulp per hour. This process results in effluents that must be passed to the recovery boilers with the respective gas emanation, which have already been measured and in previous inspections the company obtained fines for exceeding the legal LMP.
The company is located very close to an area where pests of both rodents and insects proliferate, there is much landslide due to the wind in the area and it has a nearby irrigation canal through which effluents from other companies, towns in the area and even pass the same company discharges its effluents there, both from production and from its administrative activities. The facilities are built of noble material and the distribution design was not optimal for all areas, including lighting and ventilation.
The floors are made of noble material, they are not washable and have many irregularities on their surface. Its walls are smooth and covered with white epoxy paint. Windows are only protected by mosquito nets. In the area where the operational processes are carried out, excessive luminaires per m² have been placed and they do not have greater protection than the factory plastic with which they were purchased.
The production area has some guidelines for water control, suppliers, disinfection, cleaning and maintenance. But they have seen the need to control the issues of proper handling of the product before packaging, traceability of processes, use of cleaning chemicals that are ecologically healthy, deratization, control of waste from administrative and production offices, as well as control of Insect pests that affect storage and workers' health.
They also found that the improper storage of their coffee beans affected the facilities and the locality, since there had been a plague of rodents in previous years.
They have not yet scheduled training on preventive and corrective measures in the face of poor hygiene practices for operational personnel and those for quality control of product samples.
The water used in their cooling processes for their boilers is a potential polluting source and can cause problems for the machinery since it contains residual chlorine that exceeds the LMP. As mentioned, the wastewater is discharged into the canals in the area.
There are documented disinfection and cleaning protocols that are carried out on a scheduled basis and consider eliminating dirt, only removing it, without using special products for the case, use of common detergents, degreasers, both for the tools and for the machinery used, it is about of removing the waste so that disinfectants can be applied later and leaving the areas free for the operation, this is still not 100% effective.
In the part of reception of coffee batches in the area, the proper inspection and analysis by sampling is carried out and then the common quality tests of the coffee sector to avoid microbial contamination, but the Management found that a review or tests were not carried out of the use of insecticides in the area where the purchased lot comes from, nor the antimicrobial materials in the storage area of the quintals of coffee purchased where there is a presence of earth, stones, wood or straw that arrives from poorly washed warehouses.
In the drying process of the grains, delays were observed due to the degree of humidity that was acquired in storage and in the packaging stage, microbial contamination has been observed due to poor sealing of the bags and placement in the cardboard boxes.
The packaging manufacturing plant operates 24 hours a day and produces an average of 20 tons of pulp per hour. This process results in effluents that must be passed to the recovery boilers with the respective gas emanation, which have already been measured and in previous inspections the company obtained fines for exceeding the legal LMP.
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