November 24, 2022
The company, under the umbrella of Grupo Alimentario Copese, joins the select group of Spanish slaughterhouses and cutting plants licensed to sell their products in one of the main important Asian markets.
It has taken more than two years of work and the fulfillment of high demanding quality standards to obtain the desired homologation.
Coca (Segovia), November 24, 2022
The holding company Grupo Alimentario Copese (Comercial Pecuaria Segoviana, Agropecuaria Entrepinos and Hola Food) has reasons to celebrate. After more than two years of intense work and the fullfilment of high demanding quality standards, Hola Food has received the approval to export fresh and frozen pork products developed in the meat processing center located in the town of Villacastín (Segovia).
An approval that was only received by other Spanish slaughterhouse on the list issued on November 22nd . Hola Food has been authorized for slaughterhouse, cutting room and cold storage activities, which is a very important endorsement of the work of all the employees of the agri-food company and their great effort to meet the strict quality requirements requested by China. "It means a revaluation of different pork cuts and the opportunity to open our activities in a key market, something of great relevance if you take into account the requirements that had to be met in order to get the authorization," said José Muñoz, CEO of Grupo Alimentario Copese.
The company's Quality Control and Food Safety Manager, Marta Hebrero, places special emphasis on the demanding process carried out in order to achieve all the quality (BRC and IFS) and animal welfare (IAWS and WQ) certifications. "We have had moments of great tension, due to the deadlines established by the Chinese authorities for the presentation of the documentation and adequacy of our processes; these demands made the whole company strive to establish work instructions and product specifications based on the highest quality and safety standards. Today we can enjoy the recognition of that effort, feeling that we have strong fundamentals to face this new challenge that will require to uphold the achieved standards.
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