The GIM Advantage
GIM's team of inspectors, auditors and lab experts are specialized by industry to ensure your products meet all safety and performance standards for your destination market.
As any supplier of fresh produce will be well aware, food items such as vegetables, fresh fruit, berries, beans, corn, nuts, grains, and cereals must be shipped and stored swiftly after harvesting.
This type of produce must also be stored in a protective environment to ensure that it does not start to spoil before it reaches consumers.
Thanks to the time-sensitive nature of fresh produce, therefore, any disruptions to a producer’s supply chain or problems surrounding food storage conditions can impair product quality and cause a raft of new problems surrounding health and safety and consumer satisfaction. In this way, it is vitally important for suppliers of fresh produce to ensure that they double-check the state of the items they intend to sell both when they leave the packaging facility or form and, indeed, when it arrives at its destination. They must also attend to any problems that may hinder the supply chain and rectify them as soon as possible.
For businesses hoping to purchase containers of fresh produce as part of their goods and services offering, it is important to double-check that this produce is fresh, delicious and safe to eat. This is where we come in.
At Global Inspection Managing, we provide a range of services for those involved in the fresh produce sector including produce testing and produce supplier audits. Indeed, our team of lab experts is committed to ensuring that clients’ produce is free from contaminants and suitable for consumption. This means that we thoroughly check the quality of produce before and after it is shipped, offering clients peace of mind in regards to the safety and quality of the items they sell.
We offer specially-tailored produce inspection services for food items including:
All of the lab technicians who work at Global Inspection Managing have unbeatable produce inspections expertise. This means that they are able to follow meticulous safety and inspections protocols based on individual client requirements, international regulations, and the legislative regulations set out by the relevant destination market. For example, to ensure that all samples collected during product audits are representative of their wider shipments, we make sure to adhere to the ANSI/ASQC Z1.4 (ISO 2859-1), an international sampling process, and the rules set out by the World Health Organisation’s Food Code (also known as the Codex Alimentarius).
Before any produce is loaded onto a vehicle for shipment, our meticulous inspectors will double-check its condition. This means ensuring that it is packaged and labelled correctly and is of high quality. Once the shipment arrives at its intended destination, the team will be ready and waiting to conduct a comprehensive produce inspection, making sure that your goods have not been spoiled or tampered with during transit.
Our team of experts is committed to writing up same-day inspection reports to help organisations make well-informed and quick decisions about their supply chain. Global Inspection Managing also offers clients an online tracker that provides real-time data about a given supply chain.
With this data, clients can monitor trends and benchmark certain suppliers.
We determine the safety of produce using the following solutions:
Farm and greenhouse audits
These audits look for potential contaminants that may appear during produce growth. This means ensuring that proper protocols are followed surrounding the use of fertiliser, water usage and irrigation processes, pest control, food security, land usage, and employee hygiene and safety.
Ethical Audits
We will conduct Ethical Audits to investigate suppliers and ensure that they comply with the rules surrounding workers’ rights and conditions.
Food safety audits
Food safety audits help to ensure that suppliers use stringent quality management systems to keep their supply chain safe
Harvest crew audits
We will ensure that employees involved with harvesting produce are kept safe and that working practices are hygienic.
We offer clients a range of benefits including:
GIM's team of inspectors, auditors and lab experts are specialized by industry to ensure your products meet all safety and performance standards for your destination market.
At Holam, we appreciate the work of GIM, thanks to the quality of their service and the flexibility of their reports, which fully meet our needs. The quality of their work is combined with their reports, which are always explicit and address all the specifics of our products. With GIM, the inspections are as if we were doing them ourselves.
GIM provides us with inspection reports for our clients from the jewelry industry, my products are mainly made of wood (displays, and boxes). I like to work with GIM for their efficiency, attention to details, and reliability in their inspection results.
After multiple problems in our book productions, we asked GIM to inspect each of our book productions in China. Their service and follow-up is excellent and we are now also working with them in Vietnam.
We are a company specializing in the distribution of gift products in France. GIM was able to meet the scope of our needs, both in terms of "sourced products" and in negotiations with Chinese suppliers to enable us to obtain reasonable quantities allowing us to expand our range of products. GIM was able to guide us in its research by monitoring the entire production line all the way to quality control. Their ability to listen, their service and their professionalism are qualities that we found in GIM.
