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Food Safety Code: Animal Product Manufacturing

SQF Food Safety Code: Animal Product Manufacturing

Our Animal Product Manufacturing Code can be applied to food sector categories for slaughtering, boning, and butchery; manufactured meats and poultry; and seafood processing. 

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