Cornish Crisp Company gains SALSA accreditation

The Cornish Crisp Company has been awarded SALSA (Safe and Local Supplier Approval) accreditation, a scheme designed for small food and drink manufacturers to assure their quality systems before supplying products to national and regional buyers.

The South East Cornwall based company which employs just four people heard they had achieved the standard on the 23rd December.

To achieve SALSA, the company undertook a daylong audit where company records, production and operational systems and health and hygiene standards were closely inspected by a specialist auditor.

Sue Wolstenholme, Managing Director said: ‘We are currently talking to some national buyers who require us to have SALSA and therefore hope that this accreditation will take us to a new level in sales and better secure the future for our staff and the business.

“Despite this success, we will not be abandoning our policy of avoiding big supermarkets and retailers, which deal unfairly with farmers.”

The team were helped to achieve the standard by the Food Innovation Service based at Duchy College, Stoke Climsland who helped the Cornish Crisp team with advice on achieving SALSA and a pre-audit check of paperwork and production standards.