Qualtrax, Inc. Welcomes New Customer: Earthbound Farm
Christiansburg, VA, July 23, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Qualtrax, Inc. recently welcomed Earthbound Farm to its customer base. Earthbound Farm is headquartered in San Juan Bautista, California and is the nation’s largest grower, packer, and shipper of organic produce. With approximately 150 designated farms, 1,000 employees, and over 33,000 acres of farmland, Earthbound Farm works to produce healthy, organic food while making a positive impact on the environment. Earthbound Farm is widely recognized for its tender leaf, fresh-cut salads found in many grocery stores nationwide.
Earthbound Farm is a signatory to the California and Arizona Leafy Greens Marketing Agreements (LGMAs). The LGMAs were established to ensure that growers of lettuces and other greens are following best practices for protecting their healthy crops from contamination. Adherence to the standards is regularly audited. Earthbound Farm also complies with several customer standards and is looking to move to an ISO certification.
As Earthbound Farm has continued to grow, its need for a document and quality control software solution became apparent. According to Will Daniels, VP of Quality, food safety, and organic integrity, Earthbound Farm “generated thousands of pages of documents every week to keep the system going. Before we started using Qualtrax, our system was based entirely on paper documents and, frankly, we used too much paper. Now that we’re paperless, we are doing the environment a favor and we’re more efficient, too.”
Earthbound Farm plans to manage their entire quality system with Qualtrax and has employees in virtually every department ready to adopt the Qualtrax workflow process. Technical information, food specifications, standard operating procedures (SOPs), reference documents, and others will be stored in the system where hundreds of employees in Earthbound Farm’s processing environment will have access to them. “With Qualtrax,” comments Daniels, “we will be more timely with delivery of information, more accurate, more efficient, and more environmentally friendly.”
About Qualtrax
Qualtrax, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CCS-Inc., provides compliance software that enables electronic document and process management. Qualtrax focuses on heavily regulated industries where compliance with standards such as SQF, BRC, PAS 220, ISO 22000, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, HACCP, and others presents challenges to organizations. Qualtrax greatly simplifies document management, workflow tracking, and business and manufacturing process control. To learn more, please visit the Qualtrax website at www.qualtrax.com.
About Earthbound Farms
Earthbound Farm was founded in 1984 when Drew and Myra Goodman started farming organically on a small 2.5 -acre garden with a big commitment to protect the health of the land and those who enjoy its harvest. Today Earthbound Farm’s produce is grown by 150 farmers on 33,000 acres using sustainable farming methods, keeping about 10.5 million pounds of conventional agricultural chemicals out of the environment each year. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.ebfarm.com.
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Earthbound Farm is a signatory to the California and Arizona Leafy Greens Marketing Agreements (LGMAs). The LGMAs were established to ensure that growers of lettuces and other greens are following best practices for protecting their healthy crops from contamination. Adherence to the standards is regularly audited. Earthbound Farm also complies with several customer standards and is looking to move to an ISO certification.
As Earthbound Farm has continued to grow, its need for a document and quality control software solution became apparent. According to Will Daniels, VP of Quality, food safety, and organic integrity, Earthbound Farm “generated thousands of pages of documents every week to keep the system going. Before we started using Qualtrax, our system was based entirely on paper documents and, frankly, we used too much paper. Now that we’re paperless, we are doing the environment a favor and we’re more efficient, too.”
Earthbound Farm plans to manage their entire quality system with Qualtrax and has employees in virtually every department ready to adopt the Qualtrax workflow process. Technical information, food specifications, standard operating procedures (SOPs), reference documents, and others will be stored in the system where hundreds of employees in Earthbound Farm’s processing environment will have access to them. “With Qualtrax,” comments Daniels, “we will be more timely with delivery of information, more accurate, more efficient, and more environmentally friendly.”
About Qualtrax
Qualtrax, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CCS-Inc., provides compliance software that enables electronic document and process management. Qualtrax focuses on heavily regulated industries where compliance with standards such as SQF, BRC, PAS 220, ISO 22000, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, HACCP, and others presents challenges to organizations. Qualtrax greatly simplifies document management, workflow tracking, and business and manufacturing process control. To learn more, please visit the Qualtrax website at www.qualtrax.com.
About Earthbound Farms
Earthbound Farm was founded in 1984 when Drew and Myra Goodman started farming organically on a small 2.5 -acre garden with a big commitment to protect the health of the land and those who enjoy its harvest. Today Earthbound Farm’s produce is grown by 150 farmers on 33,000 acres using sustainable farming methods, keeping about 10.5 million pounds of conventional agricultural chemicals out of the environment each year. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.ebfarm.com.
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540-382-4234 x179
www.qualtrax.com
Katie Gardner
540-382-4234 x179
www.qualtrax.com
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