NSF International – a leading provider of independent product testing, inspection and certification – has integrated VeChain ToolChain into its operations.

For over 75 years, the organization has facilitated standards development for the water, food and health science industries. Now, in response to the pandemic, it has designed a COVID-19 Preventive Control Practice (PCP) service to help its corporate clients to reopen and stay open in a safe and confident manner.

Why create a COVID-19 Preventive Control Practice (PCP) service?

With confirmed outbreaks in several food processing plants across the world – including at a Mowi owned site in Poland, a 2 Sisters factory in the UK, a Pacific Seafood facility in the US and at an American Seafoods factory trawler – having 3rd party health and sanitation professionals inspect and verify in-house infection risk procedures is of vital importance and could become a legal requirement in the “new normal”. NSF International’s solution enables businesses to protect and regain the trust of their staff and customers by:

• Reviewing their standardized operations, working environment and team management procedures to ensure that all business activities such as production and transportation are undertaken under effective preventive infection control measures
• Offering continuous supervision and testing – reducing operational risks by issuing warnings when production and operations
• Providing systematic training for relevant personnel to improve awareness of prevention and control
• Issuing NSF International authoritative certification to validate the presence of effective COVID-19 preventive control measures throughout all business operations
• Providing QR codes that can be attached to product labels to allow customers to verify the certification and be confident that the product has been processed and packaged in a safe environment
• Giving national certification and accreditation to demonstrate that the business meets local compliance

Verification of Conformity certificate for Tongliao JSA Food & Beverage Management Service Co., Ltd.

Landing page screenshot for those who scan the QR Code on the certificate

The certificates have been issued from as early as the 31st July 2020 and several companies have now passed the PCP assessment (including Tongliao JSA Food & Beverage Management Service Co., Ltd. and Qingdao Spring Seafoods Co., Ltd).

NSF International is a leader in inspections in the 150 countries it serves, as they help clients to validate and authenticate business processes. Currently, their “Checked by NSF™” program is a solution used by companies like McDonald’s in the UK.

Checked by NSF infographic

A “Checked by NSF” certificate being displayed at a McDonalds in the UK. Credit to Claire Goring

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