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AusPac Ingredients
benefits from animal
nutrition accreditation
AUSPAC Ingredients hanced processes has lection was completed,
gained FAMI-QS ac- creditation in early 2021 and was one of the first companies in the animal nutrition supply chain in Aus- tralia to do so.
led to more streamlined incident and emergen- cy procedures and in- creased overall aware- ness of quality and feed safety within the com- pany.
the two audits were conducted in Decem- ber and January with the certificate being is- sued in February 2021.
The company has re- cently undergone and passed its first surveil- lance audit under the FAMI-QS standard for feed additives.
Philip Lambeth – ex- ecutive director of operations
Nadia Pearce played an integral and driving role in the attainment of the FAMI-QS certi- fication.
FAMI-QS and the Feed Ingredients and Additives Association of Australia collabo- rated to introduce the European standard to Australia as the prefer- able accreditation in the feed industry.
Auspac Ingredients has always been a qual- ity-focussed company and was one of the ini- tial founding members of the FIAAA and earli- est members to achieve accreditation to the FI- A A A code of practice.
She highlighted the need for strong pro- cesses of documenta- tion.
Here is what the Aus- Pac Ingredients team said about the process, benefits and commit- ment to the FAMI-QS accreditation.
In line with the FI- A A A’s decision to adopt FAMI-QS, AusPac was keen to support this move and commenced the process in the first half of 2020.
There is a real sense of furthered commit- ment within the busi- ness and a deeper company-wide under- standing of quality and the role we as key suppliers to industry play in feed and food safety.
Nadia Pearce – sup- ply chain, business systems and quality assurance manager
We started with a co- ordinated gap analysis to identify the key dif- ferences between the existing quality man- agement system and FAMI-QS.
There is also a syner- gy with our Australian Border Force Trusted Trader certification.
The existing FIAAA code that Auspac In- gredients had operated under for many years required many of the framework processes demanded by FAMI- QS, however there was aneedforimprovedsys- tems and documentation.
COVID-19 delays meant that the consider- able tasks of policy re- writing, hazard analysis, supplier and product risk assessments did not begin in earnest until August and continued through until early 2021.
The results of our re- cent surveillance audit show our ongoing com- mitment to providing assurance to our cus- tomers and stakehold- ers, as well as quality, choice and value to the industry.
Implementation of en-
Once the auditor se-
Formoreinformation, visit auspacingredients. com.au
The benefits to the business are substan- tial and significant.
Hades robot in action. Photo: New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries
Robots in biosecurity trial
FIVE remote-con- trolled robots are be- ing tested in a series of biosecurity inspec- tions, to find out if they can identify biosecurity risks on imported car- go, and if they can do it more effectively and safely.
Minister for Agricul-
“The robots will be put through their paces by biosecurity officers
“The trial will take place at post-entry sites in Adelaide, Fremantle, Darwin and Brisbane and are being run in col- laboration with the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries.
“At the moment, sea containers require hoist- ing to carry out inspec- tions and officers are re- quired to inspect under- neath heavy agricultural machinery and used ve- hicles.
Hades robot being put through its paces under a vehicle. Photo: Techmatics
“These four-wheel- drive robots have the potential to significantly
“Hades-5Z will not re- place valued staff – they are an additional tool to help us keep Australia safe.”
ture and Northern Aus- tralia David Littleproud said the Hades-5Z robot units were part of an exciting $64,000 pilot program funded by the government’s Biosecu- rity Innovation Program.
during controlled onsite inspections using im- ported freight such as sea containers, vehicles and heavy agricultural machinery,” Minister Littleproud said.
reduce workplace health and safety risks for of- ficers,” Minister Little- proud said.
“The units are fitted with high definition and thermal imaging cam- eras.
“It’s hoped that using robots will reduce the safety risk to officers.
“They’re very slimline so they can be sent in un- derneath consignments.”
“The robots will be tested on wharves and ports during hot and cold temperatures and high humidity.
Live footage of the cargo underside can be viewed by officers on monitors.
“Their manoeuvrabil- ity across a range of sur- faces will also be sur- veyed.
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