Case Study
Consider the information below:
Company |
Super Soy |
Location visited |
Sorriso, Mato Grosso, Brasil |
What the company does |
Soybean farming and grain storage |
Types of production |
GMO and Non-GMO |
Hectares planted to soy |
150,000 |
At the audit to the above company you discover the following:
· GMO and non-GMO crops are approximately respectively 70% and 30% of the total production.
· There are ten equal sized grain storage silos (1 to 10), numbers 4 and 5 are dedicated non-GMO and contain “Non-GMO only” labels.
· There are invoices for purchased non-GMO seed.
· Employees state planting and harvesting equipment is cleaned prior to use on non-GMO fields.
· Farm records identify the fields planted with non-GMO seed.
· There are records of semi-quantitative GMO strip test analysis on harvested soybeans. Records demonstrate these tested soybeans are placed into the storage silos number 4.
· Last year’s invoices from Super Soy Farm to the local grain crusher (next economic operator) contain grain silo numbers 4 and 5 printed on the invoice.
Comment on the following regarding Principle 10- Traceability and Chain of Custody:
1. Cite potential non-conformance(s) you identified.
2. What type of visual evidence and/or documentation would you use to eventually confirm the potential non-conformance?
Good work!!