What is Organic?

Your food choices have a lasting effect on your family and shape their eating habits, but shopping can be challenging when we’re all bombarded with food labels appearing in various sizes and forms on the packaging, in the ingredient list, or on stickers. The “Certified Organic” label can help you make informed decisions at the farmers’ market or the supermarket. Feeding your family organic food reduces your risk of exposure to pesticides, antibiotics, and

hormones, and promotes the development of long-lasting, good eating habits.

Organic certification is a certification process for producers of organic food and other organic agricultural products. In general, any business directly involved in food production can be certified, including seed suppliers, farmers, food processors, retailers and restaurants.

Requirements vary from country to country, and generally involve a set of production standards for growing, storage, processing, packaging and shipping that include:

SQC generally deals only with products that have passed the Product Certification Scheme. In order to ensure the availability of economical yet superior materials, supplies and equipment, the product would be required to comply with current SQC specifications through a product evaluation process, factory audit as well as field trial.

General Requirements

The following are general requirements for the Product Certification scheme:

Only products that are deemed critical and those that will have a direct impact on safety, reliability and revenue would require certification. Each division in SQC is required to list products that would require Product Certification and to update this list periodically.
New products to SQC system and those installed as part of a pilot project would not require Product Certification Scheme. The certification is also not applicable to products that are procured on single, 'one-off' basis and to products without SQC specifications.
The Product Certification applicants must be a product manufacturer or assembler. The Product certificate will be issued to the manufacturer or assembler of the product and not to the trader /agents. An appointed agent of the manufacturer however, could utilize the certificate issued to the manufacturer/ assembler for the purpose of conducting business with SQC.
A Certificate is awarded for products that have fully complied with type test requirements, passed the required field trial period (of up to six months). In addition, the production facility is required to comply with the ISO 9001:2008 Quality System or equivalent standard. The Product Certificate shall be valid for a period of three (3) years and will be renewed upon satisfactory compliance with certification requirements
A formal application for the Certificate shall be submitted together with all required supporting documents. Applicants shall be required to comply with the Terms and Conditions for Product Certification. Fees due for the application for a new certificate or to renew an existing certificate shall be  paid at the time of submitting the application.
Certificate for Product Acceptance

Figure below shows the process flow for a new application for product certification and the approximate time period for the different stages of the process.

Certificate for Product Acceptance

PSI
For greater confidence in your operations, you need an end-to-end approach to inspection. One that factors in accountability, consistency and compliance at every stage. SQC’s inspection services do just that. Services that include infrastructure and construction inspection, installed equipment inspection, factory inspection, hygiene inspection as well as Pre- Shipment Inspection.

SQC has the presence and resources to protect your interests anywhere in the world. Globally respected as a provider of inspection services, SQC certificates are valued by global trading houses, financial institutions, and government and non-governmental food aid organisations.

The benefits:
Protection of government revenues through the assessment of imports by experienced staff, thereby preventing the unjustified transfer of foreign exchange to other countries and the collection by Customs of insufficient duties and taxes
Trade facilitation through an accelerated clearance process for importers
Increased security by ensuring compliance with prevailing international regulations and guidelines.

SQC Group of Companies (SQC) stands at the forefront of Inspection consultation,in the region and acknowledged as a pioneer in providing consultation& training for the following Inspection services with an impressive and comprehensive network of our subsidiary companies.

SQC pre-shipment inspection services

As your partner for process excellence, we provide a variety of testing and pre-shipment inspection services customised to your needs and look after your interests on-site at a local level. Upon request, we can also take over end-to-end scheduling and project control on your behalf. The services include:

  • In-line Inspection: Focuses on controlling the quality of products by inspecting the production line/raw materials to identify potential problems that may result in defective end products. It is based on a ‘bottom-up’ or deductive approach.
  • Initial Production Inspection (IPI): Conducted at the beginning of the production cycle, when up to 20% of goods are produced. It is based on a ‘top-down’ or inductive approach, which first inspects the end products and then traces back any problems to the production line and raw materials.
  • During Production Inspection (DUPRO): Also based on a ‘top-down’ approach, occurs when the product cycle is about 20- 40% complete and product packing has started. 
  • Final Random Inspection (FRI): When the total consignment is completed and packed; a detailed inspection of randomly selected samples is carried out to check the quality, quantity and packaging conformity as per samples and specifications.
  • Construction Check: SQC performs a safety check on your products in the run up to production to help you avoid time consuming delays in delivery or costly rework. Within the scope of this examination, we check whether the correct components are being used in order to ensure long-term quality. The design check also provides important information for pre-shipment inspections.
  • Loading Supervisions: SQC monitors loading of goods on your behalf. We also inspect the condition of containers and verify the identity and quantity of goods. This enables us to initiate optimization measures on the spot, if necessary.

Product certification or product qualification is the process of certifying that a certain product has passed performance tests and quality assurance tests, and meets qualification criteria stipulated in contracts, regulations, or specifications (typically called "certification schemes" in the product certification industry).

Product Certification and Product Inspection Scheme

Chemical Testing

Mechanical and Physical Testing

What are quality awards?

Quality awards are prizes awarded for some aspect of quality performance which has been demonstrated to an organisation which normally has no responsibility for the recipient's performance.

To whom are the awards presented?

Awards are offered to either individuals or organisations, depending on the type of award.

What do the awards measure?

All quality awards are made on the basis of an assessment of the applicant's performance against certain criteria. Some awards measure the result of quality activities (such as customer satisfaction), some assess the effort involved in ensuring consistency of output and others assess conformity of output to customer requirements. Most are awarded in some kind of competition among companies, but a few are not competitive - being assessments of an organisation's performance with no limit to the number of winners. As well as those describing themselves as quality awards, there are other similar awards for customer satisfaction and best practice.

Who gives such awards?

Awards are organised:

  • at international level
  • by national or local government
  • at regional level
  • by trade or professional bodies
  • by other companies - especially major manufacturers

Examples of international awards include:

  • The EFQM Excellence Award, established in 1992 and offered by the EFQM
  • Asia-Pacific Area Golden Quality Award
  • The Deming Prize, established 1951 (International from 1984) and offered by the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers

Examples of national awards are:

  • The UK Excellence Award, established in 1994 and run by the British Quality Foundation
  • The Malcolm Baldrige Award, established in 1987 and offered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA
  • The Wales Quality Award, established in 1994 and offered by the Wales Quality Centre
  • The Irish Quality Award, offered by Excellence Ireland
  • Singapore's National Quality Award, established in 1994 and offered by the Singapore Productivity Board 

What Is Accreditation?
Accreditation is an approval of a conformity assessment body’s (CAB's) competence, credibility, independence and integrity in carrying out its conformity assessment activities. Accreditation and certification is sometimes considered synonym, Accreditation is the power bestowed on the Certification, Training, Testing and Inspection bodies to audit and award certification to organisation fulfilling requirements of specific applicable Management System Standards.

Surewin Quality Certification operateed as an Certification, Evaluation Body, organized according to ISO/IEC 17021, had accredited by Renar from 2009 until 2012 also In 2013, the director of board was decided to use private credit instead of AB(s) members of IAF,so withdrewed from Renar  accreditation and resumed operations with Niasab-Canada

Surewin Quality Certification operates as an Inspection, Certification, Evaluation and Training Body, organized according to international standards ISO/IEC 17020 and ISO/IEC 17065, Accredited by NISAB-Canada,at 2013 Until now.