Techno Fresh Consultancy Ltd has this week been accredited with ISO9001 and claims to be the first company that has achieved this standard for surveys, quality inspections and technical management within the fresh produce industry.

The quality control firm has been based at Sheerness since 2000, providing services to a number of companies both on the site and overseas, with a team of specially trained staff.

A second office was opened in Spalding last week.

Richard Gaskin, managing director of Techo Fresh, told FPJ: “We have been working on gaining this accreditation since the early part of the year, but we have always run the company to these standards.

“This accreditation ties up all the loose ends for us and means we can be really confident about what we do, so that when our customers ask us to do something, they can trust that it will be done to the correct standard.”