Talawakelle Tea Estates receives HACCP certification for tea processing

CERTIFICATION: Talawakelle Tea Estates Limited (TTEL), one of Sri Lanka’s top ranked Regional Plantation Companies on price performance, has received the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) certification for two of its estates.

The company’s Holyrood and Mattakelle estates in the Talawakelle region received their HACCP certificates from Det Norske Veritas (DNV), in Colombo recently.

These are the first accredited HACCP certificates awarded to tea factories in Sri Lanka and the system will ensure food safety for the production of orthodox black tea along the entire production chain from harvesting to the point of dispatch.

Significantly, the certification was received entirely through the efforts and commitment of the company’s own employees without any assistance from an external consultant.

Both estates have already implemented the Japanese 5-S and other Total Quality Management Systems which are maintained at high levels, facilitating the receipt of the HACCP certification.

The company said that it will continue to invest in developing all its processing centres and implement international FSMS’s which will ensure global product, safety and quality standards relating to black tea produced in all its factories.