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Over 100 separate checks and tests

AT PAFCO, we pride ourselves on the high-quality canned tuna we produce for the markets of the world. In fact, we believe ours is the best tuna available anywhere.

And that's no accident.

Our people work with the most technologically advanced procedures and equipment to maintain our member ship in a select group of tuna industry leaders.

From the moment a fish arrives at our wharf, it is tested and monitored, to ensure that, when it leaves bearing any one of 30 different labels, it meets our stringent standards of safety, quality, texture, flavour, colour and freshness.

Sample fish are taken for cooking and organoleptic testing for flavour and quality. The cooked samples are tested for salt content and any forms of oontamination.

Also at this stage the fish is checked for bruising and blood-spotting, which ndicates poor quality, or that it was saught with a net. Since PAFCO cans no tuna caught with nets, any fish which fails this test is rejected.

Since fish is a highly perishable oroduct, storage and cooking tempera tures are of critical importance, and these are closely scrutinised. The fish must be stored frozen to minus-20 degrees Centigrade, and thawed prior to cook ng. A fine water mist sprayed at timed ntervals provides consistent and rapid pooling.

Once in the can, weight checks and /isual inspections are made, ensuring that each carries the correct amount of ish. The hermetically-sealed cans are tested for safe, secure seaming before inal sterilisation takes place. Again, temperature is vital and this is monitored throughout the process.

Once the final product is screened and abelled, further random checks are made to ensure cans are properly sealed and jndamaged. Selected cans are opened and the contents subjected to further igorous testings.

By the time the fish leaves our warehouse, it will have been subjected to more than 100 separate checks and tests, to ensure it deserves to be called the world's best.

Salendra The expansion: includes wharf area, freezer and processing facilities