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im not going to be popular for saying this, and i am just pointing out some truths not painting everyone with the same brush, but as an industry when it comes to inspections and record keeping we have it pretty easy. Think of what everyone else up the foodchain has to do to be able to just keep the place running. Sign at every corner, immaculate work floors and production lines, endless amounts of signing in and signing out, labelling and procedures that they have to go through multiple time a year, machinery that has to be updated every few years and maintained spotless.
And now think of us as the primary source of where food comes from how we can get away with shabby paperwork, slightly made up application records for muck and fertiliser, dust and cobwebs building up everywhere, medicine cabinets hardly holding together, bottles of penicillin left about having used the same needle 10 times over. if something get contaminated at the source that is severe and should be regulated as such. I am afraid I don' sympathise with anyone that thinks that a bit of extra paperwork and tidiness is unreasonable.
I think you're a bit out of touch with the reality of how Dairy Processors operate.
Ten minute visit once a year from EH, other than that, it's down to how often and to what standard their customers Audit them.
Tesco is a toughie with perhaps up to three Auditors on site for 2 days but you know weeks in advance when they're likely to turn up. The last RT audit I was involved in, the auditor never left the QA manager's office (was there for about two hours. And if you can't pass a Coop inspection, you must be really bad.