[Alexia Stumpf]

Case Study

Consider the information below:

Company	Super Soy
Location visited	Sorriso, Mato Grosso, Brasil
What the company does	Soybean farming and grain storage
Types of production	GMO and Non-GMO
Hectares planted to soy	150,000

At the audit to the above company you discover the following:

·          GMO and non-GMO crops are approximately respectively 70% and 30% of the total production.

·         There are ten equal sized grain storage silos (1 to 10), numbers 4 and 5 are dedicated non-GMO and contain “Non-GMO only” labels.

·         There are invoices for purchased non-GMO seed.

·         Employees state planting and harvesting equipment is cleaned prior to use on non-GMO fields.

·         Farm records identify the fields planted with non-GMO seed.

·         There are records of semi-quantitative GMO strip test analysis on harvested soybeans. Records demonstrate these tested soybeans are placed into the storage silos number 4.  

·         Last year’s invoices from Super Soy Farm to the local grain crusher (next economic operator) contain grain silo numbers 4 and 5 printed on the invoice. 

Comment on the following regarding Principle 10- Traceability and Chain of Custody:

1.     Cite potential non-conformance(s) you identified.

2.     What type of visual evidence and/or documentation would you use to eventually confirm the potential non-conformance?

 

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