Control from Beginning to End

Quality Excellence
From the grove to the customer, we at Sun Orchard emphasize quality at every step. With decades-long relationships with fruit growers and packing houses, we procure only the finest quality fruit. Then a rigorous testing program ensures that our high quality standards are met all along the way during growing, harvesting, juicing, blending, processing and packaging. Each load of fruit is scrutinized; every batch of juice is custom blended; and all production lots are tested by a trained and dedicated Quality Assurance staff with state-of-the-art analytical and microbiological facilities.

Food Safety Assurance
GMP's are Good Manufacturing Practices as outlined in the federal regulations (21 CFR Part 110) and cover such things as buildings, equipment, personnel and pest control. GMP's serve as a key prerequisite to HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points).

HACCP is a food safety system that employs a detailed, systematic approach to identifying and preventing potential physical, chemical and biological hazards during food production. As of January, 2004, a federal rule (21 CFR Part 120) now requires all juice manufacturers to implement a documented HACCP plan.

Years in advance of the federal requirement, however, Sun Orchard was leading the way in the utilization of HACCP. Working closely with regulatory and academic experts from reputable institutions such as the FDA and the University of Georgia 's Center for Food Safety, we have developed comprehensive programs that provide the highest possible level of food safety assurance.

At our invitation and the request of our customers, we constantly test the effectiveness of our quality assurance programs with the use of several third party auditors, including renowned organizations such as Silliker Laboratories, AIB, and NSF / Cook & Thurber. Additionally, many of our customers routinely perform rigorous quality audits of their own. Sun Orchard is proud to say that our products, facilities, programs and personnel consistently earn top scores from these auditors.

We even go to such lengths as to individually customize our quality systems to work seamlessly with our customers' own programs. Whether it's samples, reports or other data, our Quality Assurance team will work with yours to provide you what you need, when you need it. As a result of all of these efforts, we've earned such honors as being named a Top 100 Supplier for SYSCO three years running and a Top 5% Supplier for Darden Restaurants.