Quality & supply
Confidence, built into the details.
An honest view of how Protea Gourmet Meals will be made, controlled and supplied — including what is settled and what is still to be confirmed.
The model
Brand-owned recipes, independently manufactured.
Because manufacturing is placed with appointed partners, the important assurance is the approval framework applied to those partners — not a factory address.
Independent manufacturing partners
Nivedana Foods does not operate its own factory. Production is placed with independent manufacturing partners appointed for a given product and market, and partners can change as the programme develops.
Ingredient & supplier approval
Ingredients and their suppliers are approved against written requirements before use, including specification, origin and documentation, so substitutions are controlled rather than incidental.
HACCP-based controls
Production is intended to run under a HACCP-based control plan agreed with the appointed site, with defined critical control points and monitoring records for each production run.
Traceability
Batch traceability from incoming ingredient through to finished pack is an intended requirement of every appointed manufacturing site.
Packaging integrity
Seal integrity, pack presentation and thermal process validation for the retort pouch format are the responsibility of the appointed site and form part of the approval requirements.
Facility certification
FSSC 22000: facility certification to be verified for the appointed manufacturing site and relevant scope. No certification is claimed by Nivedana Foods at this stage.
The controls described above are intended requirements for appointed manufacturing sites. They are not certifications currently held by Nivedana Foods, and no certification marks are displayed on this site.
Trade specification
What is set, and what we configure with you.
Rather than filling a table with placeholders, the matrix separates the working specification from the items that are deliberately agreed per supply programme.
Working specification
- Unit net weight
- 425 g
- Pack format
- Gusseted retort pouch (concept)
- Ambient shelf life
- 24 months*
- Storage & transport
- Ambient dry storage — no cold chain
- Range depth
- Eight recipes
* Working specification; validation and final release documentation pending.
Configured with your programme
- Case count
- Configured and confirmed with your supply programme
- Case dimensions
- Configured and confirmed with your supply programme
- Case gross weight
- Configured and confirmed with your supply programme
- Pallet configuration
- Configured and confirmed with your supply programme
- Minimum order quantity
- Configured and confirmed with your supply programme
- Lead time
- Configured and confirmed with your supply programme
- GTIN / barcoding
- Configured and confirmed with your supply programme
- Market documentation
- Configured and confirmed with your supply programme
These are intentionally open. They are set once your depot standards, order cycle and market requirements are known.
Technical documentation is issued directly to a named contact as it is released. There is no automatic download, and no certificate is offered here.