The Nunes Company:  Committed to growing, harvesting,
 and packing safe and healthy produce

Pioneers in food safety in the produce industry, The Nunes Company, Inc. is committed to growing, harvesting, and packing safe and healthy produce.  To us, food safety is a continuous part of our operations, beginning from the moment we design our facilities and equipment, and continuing with daily inspections, monthly self-audits, yearly third party audits, and continuous training.  Very simply, we grow, harvest, and pack our produce like we are preparing it for our own dinner table.

Safe produce begins in the field, so the Company’s growing, harvesting and packing operations have implemented Good Agricultural Practices programs accepted by the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement in both California and Arizona.  Its food safety team demonstrated its expertise by contributing to the drafting and publication of the Commodity Specific Food Safety Guidelines for the Lettuce and Leafy Greens Supply Chain.

Once harvested, our fresh produce is transported to, and cooled at our facilities located in Salinas, or Huron, California, or Yuma, Arizona.  Each of these facilities have implemented Good Manufacturing Practices programs that include microbiological testing, pest control, employee training, daily sanitation, and monitoring of water and ice.  Yearly third party auditing of our facilities began in 1999, and in fields in 2001.  The audits, conducted by Scientific Certification Systems, Primus Laboratories and Davis Fresh Technologies, have been uniformly judged “Superior” and several times earned perfect scores.  In addition to the yearly audits, beginning in 2007, we have been audited almost monthly by inspectors from the California Department of Food & Agriculture under the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement.

Food safety requires commitment, constant vigilance and increasingly stringent standards.  To meet these standards, our food safety department has doubled in size in the last three years and  we have added a food safety director with a degree in Food Science from the University of California, Davis, one of the preeminent agricultural schools in the nation.