HOME            COMPANY    PRODUCTION     PACKING     PROTOCOLS  CONTACTS  MESSAGE PROFILE CUSTOMERS PDO NEWS RECIPES SEASONALITY SEED PLASTIC PESTICIDES HARVESTING ORGANIC GROWERS ENVIRONMENT AUDITS EDUCATION 01/07/2008 Season Update 2008 has been a very challenging s(...) Read more... 13/05/2008 A Star is Born! The Morrisons DVD which was filmed(...) Read more... 13/05/2008 Harvesting Begins in Earnest After the poor weather of March & (...) Read more... 28/03/2008 1st Outdoor Harvest of 2008 The first outdoor crop of the seas(...) Read more... 28/03/2008 Morrisons to Film in Jersey On Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th of (...) Read more... 28/03/2008 Planting Update Planting of this year’s export cro(...) Read more... AUDITS Environmental Audits The Jersey Royal Company and each grower supplying Jersey Royal is audited against certain customer and industry standards. The industry standard used is the Assured Produce Scheme in the UK, which is the equivalent to the EUREP-GAP standard throughout the rest of the EU. In addition to this, we are also audited against Tesco’s Natures Choice which is a Tesco Specific requirement and which is widely thought of as being one of the highest standards within the industry. Jersey Royal itself has achieved Gold Standard Natures Choice – the highest achievable level as well as achieving LEAF Marque accreditation. LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming) a charitable organisation which promotes environmental awareness within the agriculture sector and has initiated a number of profitable working demonstration farms across the UK. These audits look at a number of agri-environmental and welfare issues and have sections on soil management, pesticide use, fertiliser use, water use and conservation, recycling and re-use, wildlife and landscape conservation and enhancement, health and safety and worker welfare. As a number of these protocols differ in their requirements Jersey Royal has combined all requirements (plus a number of their own initiatives into an audit known as the TOP T.E.A.M. audit (T.E.A.M. = Targeting Environmental Awareness and Management). Jersey Royal also operates a quality assurance system which ensures that the products produced are of the highest food safety and food quality. A full traceability system is in operation allowing each unit produced to be traced back to the field of origin. Full records are kept to ensure that these standards are maintained and are fully auditable. Systems are in place to ensure, as far as is practicably possible, that potatoes produced are free of any contaminants and residues. Packhouse Audits Jersey Royal manage a centralised packing structure where by all produce is packed in three fully equipped and fully audited packhouses operated and managed by the Jersey Royal Company. These packhouses undertake full annual audits to British Retail Consortium Standards under EFSIS inspections. They are also annually inspected and audited by the Soil Association which allows organic potatoes to be graded and packed on site. Home | Company | Production | Packing | Protocols | News | Recipes | Contacts