The Fortune Fish Facility
Fortune Fish Company operates in a state of the art, 40,000 square foot facility that includes six separate temperature controlled areas including a finfish storage cooler, shellfish cooler, refrigerated fillet room, freezer, dry storage and loading area. We house a 3,000 gallon live lobster tank, a band saw for custom frozen product processing and an industrial smoking machine for made to order smoked seafood. Fortune Fish operates under the FDA and State Hazardous Analysis and Critical Control Point guidelines.
HAZARD ANALYSIS CRITICAL CONTROL POINTS
Fortune Fish Company has developed and adheres to several rigorous HACCP plans to assure customer safety and to exceed U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations. In addition to our HAACP Plan, Fortune follows Good Manufacturing Practices and has written and executes Standard Sanitation Operating Procedures. Although not required, we believe these procedures are crucial to employ an effective HACCP plan.
Fortune conducts HACCP plans to identify food safety hazards and to avoid creating an opportunity for a food safety hazard to develop. A food safety hazard would be considered a physical, biological or chemical contamination. Separate HAACP plans are constructed for each individual product category and categories are determined by the FDA. For example, live shellfish and fresh finfish fillet are two distinct categories with different procedures for identifying and preventing safety hazards and therefore have separate HAACP plans. Fortune has prepared and follows 9 distinct HAACP Plans. These plans ensure Fortune has taken every possible step to identify the presence of and prevent the development of physical, biological, and chemical safety hazards in our products to greatly reduce the likelihood that any hazardous products are delivered to our customers.
THIRD PARTY INSPECTIONS
Fortune Fish Company is audited annually by multiple independent agencies to assess our compliance with local, state and federal safety and sanitation requirements. These independent organizations often audit on behalf of our customers to make sure that their requirements, which often go beyond government standards, are satisfied. Some of these agencies include Intertek, QMI and Siliker.