A working dossier for programme-specific field, processing and shipment checks. Requirements and records are verified before release.
FIELD TO CONTAINER
Six checkpoints stand between a block of fruit and a sealed container. Each one produces a record, and the records travel with the lot.
Irrigation water and soil are tested before the season starts, so the growing programme is set against known inputs rather than assumptions.
Samples go to an independent ISO 17025 accredited laboratory before harvest is authorised, against the residue limits of the destination market.
Field heat is removed on the same morning the fruit is picked. The shelf life a buyer never sees is lost in this window, not in transit.
Grading for defects, colour uniformity and calibre, to the class and size band written into the contract.
Individual quick freezing keeps pieces separate and cell walls intact, which is what prevents drip loss when the buyer thaws them.
Containers are pre-cooled, set to the booked temperature and loaded lot by lot, with the loading record matched to the bill of lading.
DOCUMENTATION STATUS
The dossier is organised around field, site and management-system requirements. Current certificate scope and supporting documents are verified for the requested programme before any document is released.
Farming operations, Beheira
Current scope and document verification required.
Covers how the crop is grown — plant protection programmes, water sources, worker welfare and record keeping at block level. It is the baseline most European retail technical teams open with.
Processing and IQF freezing
Current scope and document verification required.
Audits the processing site itself: hygiene zoning, foreign-body control, HACCP, and the traceability exercise that has to reconcile a finished pallet back to a harvest date.
Cold store, packing and export management
Current scope and document verification required.
Ties the food safety controls into the management system, so the same procedures apply to storage, packing and the export documentation released with each shipment.
RESIDUE REQUIREMENTS
Abou El Fotouh Farms operates pre-harvest interval (PHI) controls and an integrated pest management (IPM) programme. Export batches are sampled and sent to independent ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratories, tested against the residue limits in EU Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 and those of the destination market. The report for a given lot is available to the buyer on request.
Certificate scope and specification sheets are listed on the downloads desk. To size a programme before enquiry, use the load planner.
TRACEABILITY
Every export lot carries its own reference: the block it was picked from, the harvest date, the grading and freezing records, and the container it left in. When a buyer's technical team asks a question eighteen months later, the answer is a file rather than a recollection.
DIRECT GROWER PROCUREMENT
Contact our commercial sales department for container availability, specification sheets, and FOB / CFR price quotes.