FSSC 22000
Version 6, certified for the processing — separation, filtration and homogenisation — and packaging of honey.
Food safety standards
At Upendo Honey, registered as Third Man Ltd, we are committed to food safety and are FSSC 22000 certified — one of the few companies in Tanzania to achieve this certification. In addition we are certified to USDA NOP and EU Organic standards. We are one of only two companies in Tanzania registered as a B Corp, and we have received a Silver EcoVadis sustainability rating.
FSSC 22000
USDA NOP Organic
EU Organic
Certified B Corp
EcoVadis Silver
Policy
Our food safety policy
We deliver products that are obtained from safe, high quality raw materials, and our aim is to obtain results that comply with food safety principles.
We commit ourselves to communicate our food safety policy internally with our employees, as well as externally with our customers and suppliers. We are committed to involving all of the company’s personnel in reaching our objectives and to complying with legal and regulatory requirements.
Management will at all times commit the resources required to maintain a high level of food safety and product quality.
Customer satisfaction
Increase customer satisfaction by offering safe, quality products.
Continual improvement
Ensure the continual improvement of product safety by complying with regulatory standards, building solid relationships with customers and suppliers, including food safety criteria in the company’s key performance indicators, and training staff regularly.
Management system
Improve our management system.
Certifications and partners
Independently verified
FSSC 22000Food safety
USDA NOPOrganic
EU OrganicOrganic
B CorpCertified
EcoVadisSilver rating
- WCSBiodiversity monitoring
- ADAPCommunity forestry
- USAIDProgramme funding
- iGravityImpact finance
Each certification mark links to the issuing body’s information. Certification and medal artwork should be kept current with the issuing body’s brand and usage guidance.
Documents
Certificates and analysis
Organic
Certified by Ecocert to EU Regulation 2018/848 and the USDA National Organic Program, under control body code TZ-BIO-154.
HACCP
Honey reception and homogenisation are both managed as operational prerequisite programmes.
Full analysis from certified laboratories (QSI, Intertek) and traceability data are available for all batches on request. Certificates for FSSC 22000, USDA NOP and EU Organic can be supplied to buyers.
Independent testing
Independent testing in Bremen
We do not certify our own honey. Completed batches are sampled by our QA department and sent to Intertek Food Services GmbH in Bremen, Germany, an independent laboratory accredited by DAkkS, the German national accreditation body.
Testing in the destination market is deliberate. A European buyer can check our analysis against a laboratory their own auditors already recognise, using methods accepted there, rather than taking a certificate from Tanzania on trust.
Analysis covers pesticide residues under EU Regulation 396/2005 and veterinary residues under Regulation 37/2010; botanical and geographical origin; and the trade parameters — HMF, moisture, pH, diastase and free acidity.