Mexico City – The Eleven Rivers® Regulatory Scheme is the first fresh produce regulatory scheme in receiving the Mexican Government recognition by SENASICA.
Enrique Sanchez Cruz, Director in Chief of SENASICA, said that the Eleven Rivers® Regulatory Scheme is unique in the industry for its integral reliability program, weekly producers compliance verifications and standards above any governmental regulation.
SENASICA, the Mexican National Service of Agro Alimentary Health, Safety and Quality (for its initials in Spanish), is the counterpart of FDA and is the Mexican authority concerning food safety and risk reduction management.
The Eleven Rivers® Program was established to develop and align participants to deliver the highest fresh produce reliability, based on:
• Most demanding buyers’ requirements to support its offering
• Business Practices guidelines of global commercial organizations
• Tomato metrics format for a better understanding in the market
• Regulatory agencies’ politics, norms and scopes
The Eleven Rivers® Regulatory Scheme integrates the highest standards, politics, metrics and processes, in
• Production-to-distribution food safety
• Point-to-point traceability
• Risk reduction management
• Process control systems
• Labor, social and ecological responsibility
Each participating production unit compliance is supported by a seasonal integral certification and weekly verifications, both executed by independent auditing organizations, certified and authorized by SENASICA to operate under the Eleven Rivers® Regulatory Scheme.
SENASICA’s recognition of the Eleven Rivers® Regulatory Scheme, is a step towards the harmonization of standards and other benchmarking processes with GFSI and GlobalGAP.
This recognition also supports that Eleven Rivers is continuously delivering the highest reliability to the market and verifying what the final client cannot see, from crop to packaging, workers housing and transportation to distribution centers.
About Eleven Rivers
The Eleven Rivers program is operated as a cooperative. Eleven Rivers had 12 participating producers with 90,000 tons of fresh produce during the 2011-12 season. For this season 2012-13, Eleven Rivers is incorporating between 24 and 30 producers. The portfolio of participating producers is a wide variety of tomatoes, eggplants, bell peppers, cucumbers, chiles, green beans and squash, among others.
For more information please contact us at 401-427-0940 or info@elevenrivers.net or visit our website 11rivers.net
Source: Eleven Rivers
