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AusPac ingredients benefits from animal nutrition accreditation
AUSPAC Ingredients gained FAMI-QS ac- creditation in early 2021 and in doing so was one of the first companies in the an- imal nutrition supply chain in Australia to do so.
Implementation of en- hanced processes has ledtomorestreamlined incident and emergency procedures and in- creased overall aware- ness of quality and feed safety within the com- pany.
through until early 2021. Once the auditor se- lectionwascompleted, the two audits were con- ducted in December and January with the certifi- cate being issued in Feb-
The company has re- cently undergone and passed its first surveil- lance audit under the FAMI-QS standard for feed additives.
Philip Lambeth – ex- ecutive director of operations
ruary 2021.
Nadia Pearce played an
FAMI-QS and the Feed Ingredients and Additives Association of Australia collaborated to introduce the European standard to Australia as the preferable accredita- tion in the feed industry.
She highlighted the need for strong pro- cesses of documentation.
Here is what the AusPac Ingredients team said about the process, benefits and commit- ment to the FAMI-QS accreditation.
In line with the FI- A A A’s decision to adopt FAMI-QS, AusPac was keen to support this move and commenced the process in the first half of 2020.
There is a real sense of furthered commitment within the business and a deeper company-wide understanding of quality and the role we as key suppliers to industry play in feed and food safety.
Nadia Pearce – supply chain, business sys- tems and quality as- surance manager
We started with a co- ordinated gap analysis to identify the key dif- ferences between the existing quality manage- ment system and FAMI- QS.
There is also a syn- ergy with our Australian Border Force Trusted Trader certification.
The existing FIAAA code that Auspac In- gredients had operated under for many years required many of the framework processes demanded by FAMI- QS, however there was a need for improved sys- tems and documentation.
COVID-19 delays meant that the consider- able tasks of policy re- writing, hazard analysis, supplier and product risk assessments did not begin in earnest until August and continued
The results of our re- cent surveillance audit show our ongoing com- mitment to providing as- surance to our customers and stakeholders, as well as quality, choice and value to the industry.
Auspac Ingredients has always been a quality- focussed company and was one of the initial founding members of the FIAAA and earliest members to achieve accreditation to the FIAAA code of practice.
integral and driving role in the attainment of the FAMI-QS certification.
The benefits to the business are substantial and significant.
For more information, visit auspacingredients. com.au
If insurance money was triggered within the week post a disaster event – flood, drought or heatwave – this will help growers to get back to their feet quickly. Photo: Darryl Cleeve
Building farm resilience
THE emotional and physical toll of drought and floods on Australian agricultural communities is costly, but the finan- cial toll is forever front of mind for those in pri- mary production - espe- cially when it comes to insurance.
important part of building resilienceandsustainability in their enterprises,” Ms Sheppard said.
farmers to plant earlier or later in the season in an attempt to reduce the frost risk, as an example.
Prof Mushtaq said by developing ‘fit for pur- pose’ affordable insurance projects and an industry discretionary mutual fund as a cost-effective channel for wider distribution and adoption, the project will grow the self-reliance and performance of the agricul- tural sector.
But thanks to researchers from the University of Southern Queensland, a new Drought Resilience Innovation Grants project led by the Queensland Farmers’ Federation and funded through the Aus- tralian Government’s Fu- ture Drought Fund, plans to transform how index-based insurance and optimal crop management can be used to reduce financial risk and improve income stability.
Alternatively planting early to avoid heat stress exposes crops to frost.
The project will see QFF collaborate with USQ and will offer access to crop insurance so farmers can take better-informed risks.
“This project will bring research and industry to- gether and enable further work to be undertaken to seek commercially viable solutions for farmers in managing risk.”
“Through this process we want to explore optimal strategies and identify those key risks to better inform the grower so they can strategically use insur- ance to get higher yields andhigh-incomeoutcomes.
“This then can have an immediate positive impact on the communities con- nected to the farms af- fected.
QFF chief executive of- ficer Jo Sheppard said ex- pertise provided by USQ will assist them as the lead project institution to en- sure the targeted insurance products are deliverable.
Professor Shahbaz Mushtaq from the USQ CACS said currently it’s common practice for
“Ultimately, we want farmers to use insurance as a risk management strategy through offering credible research to show them how it can be done.”
“By reducing farmer risk and creating viable insur- ance options that shifts the burden from the public sector to the insurance sector, there’s also the likely outcome of reducing public costs of drought and flood assistance.”
“The ability for farmers to self-manage risk is an
“The impact of prolonged drought and severe flooding events can be catastrophic on the viability of a farming business and the sector is working hard to develop ways in which farmers can plan for and mitigate this risk where possible.
Planting late can expose crops to more severe heat and drought events later in the growing season.
“It is important that re- search is conducted closely with industry and the op- portunity to collaborate with the USQ Centre for Climate Sciences on this important work is wel- comed.
“This makes sense, how- ever while those strategies might reduce weather im- pacts, it does compromise yield and income because they’re not planting at the best time for their particular crop,” Prof Mushtaq said.
“There’s also the case that this strengthens the well-being and social re- silience of rural, regional and remote agricultural de- pendent communities too,” Prof Mushtaq said.
“The issue of being able to access effective and af- fordable crop insurance has been raised many times by industry as a gap in terms of farmers being able to self-insure against risk.
“Ideally, the farmer needs to plant in that optimal window and they’re more likely to do that if the risk of doing so is covered by insurance.
“For example, if insur- ance money was triggered within the week post a dis- aster event – flood, drought, or heatwave – this will help growers to get back to their feet quickly.
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