ISO22000 accreditation
Herbert's food safety initiative wins retailer praise
Herbert Group, a leading supplier of weighing, packaging and labelling solutions to grocery and other retailers, has won praise from the country's top supermarkets for successfully gaining ISO 22000 accreditation for its manufacturing, servicing and operating systems and processes. Herbert is among the first equipment producers in the world to achieve the internationally recognised food safety management standard, which covers the entire 'Farm to Fork' cycle and is a quality benchmark for all participants in the food supply chain.
Herbert's management and control procedures were independently assessed by BSI Management Systems to certify that its equipment is optimally designed, manufactured, installed and serviced, reducing to a minimum the risk of transferring food-borne infection to the end consumer.
Committed to quality
The Herbert Group is committed to delivering reliable quality products and services to our customers in a timely and effective manner.
The company has an established company-wide continuous Improvement process which runs throughout the supply chain ensuring that our processes, product and systems are optimised to deliver the best possible performance in the most cost effective manner.
The improvement process is based on a Total Quality approach which utilises a combination of the best elements of the Juran, Demming and Crosby methodologies ensuring business decisions are fact based, focused at the required areas, and co-ordinated and implemented so that our customers and ourselves get maximum benefit.
Weighing - A brief history
Scales have been used by mankind since 7000BC when Sumerians created an equal armed balance scale for weighing precious metals and gems.
Since that time scales have been inextricably tied up with the progress of civilisation getting more sophisticated as commercials transactions increased in sophistication
Weigh labelling approval
US Approval for Herbert Weigh Labelling Equipment
UK market leaders, Herbert have now set in place compliance for their weigh labelling equipment with the US regulatory framework. This has included the granting of metrological approvals by the National Conference for Weights and Measures (NCWM), as well as certification against Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Standards for safety of machinery.
Herbert are now positioned to deliver a comprehensive range of weigh label technology to the US food processing sector, from manual to fully automatic systems linking factory control systems, vision verification systems and robotics.