Ceremony to receive the Food Safety Management ISO22000 standard certificate took place at Makh Market LLC on Oct 8.
Makh Market is the first food processing company in Mongolia to pass the strict international audit and its meat products are recognized as of international standard.
Once the prominent Mongolian intelligentsia B.RInchin was asked why Mongolians eat less vegetables, following the answer “Mongolians receive around 500 varieties of herbs through meat”. In other words, traditional pasture herding enriches the meat with every possible nutrients easily processed by human body.
JUST EXPORTING 10 MILLION OF LIFE STOCK WILL GENERATE MORE INCOME THAN OT TAXES
Pasture herding is one of the organic ways and is coveted by many. We were able to increase the life stock to 61 million heads. For many years Mongolian meat market wasn’t able to compete at international level due to lack of any food safety standards.
Makh Market LLC has successfully passed strict requirements and now is the proud holder of internationally acknowledged standard, opening its doors to the export opportunities to neighboring Russia and China. Until recently this was a closed door to meat producers and even was accentuated by Russian President during his recent state visit on opportunities of exporting Mongolian meat to Russian market.
During his speech Mr Tsagaan, Head of the President Office, emphasized the importance of having international standard and it further accelerates the talks with Russia on meat export and the potential of exporting 10 out of 60 million livestock. Just by pricing one live stock at USD 100 will add up to USD 1 billion in revenues and compared to annual income from OT it is far more profitable. Also he emphasized the positive impact on the diversification of economy, expansion of the domestic production and positive outcomes for the herders in general.
Coming week Mr Tsagaan is set to visit Russian Federation in preparation for the Presidential visit in 2015. Agenda for this visit is to prepare cooperation agreement documents. This also includes the possible export of agricultural products without limitations on tariffs and quotas.
More on achievements of Makh Market, it has passed the Chinese control requirements and was awarded the export certificate to supply value added meat produce to Chinese market.
WHAT IS ISO22000?
ISO 22000 specifies requirements for a food safety management system where an organization in the food chain needs to demonstrate its ability to control food safety hazards in order to ensure that food is safe at the time of human consumption. It is applicable to all organizations, regardless of size, which are involved in any aspect of the food chain and want to implement systems that consistently provide safe products.
The certification of international standard requires effort and investments and took over 2 years of preparation including health safety training for the staff, development of over 50 internal regulations, 200 guidelines and registry and compliance to 100 standard requirements.
Main component of ISO22000 Is sanitary standard and the company has now facilities to fully comply with standards. The amenities include shower stalls, safety gear facility and strict guidance for the employees. It also features upscale laboratory facility to examine products with chemical, microbiological and veterinary tests run on a constant basis.
Ms. L.Bolor, CEO, Makh Market LLC has noted that she believes achievement is not only a success for the company, but a milestone for the food safety of domestic food processing market. Company started its way in 2001 and now has expanded into an entity with 180 employees, modern facilities and slaughter house with daily capacity of 1000 livestock, grading of 8-10 tons of meat, produce 3-4 tons of semi processed product and 2-3 tons of processed product. The freezer storage capacity reaches 7500 tons.
Ceremony to receive the Food Safety Management ISO22000 standard certificate took place at Makh Market LLC on Oct 8.
Makh Market is the first food processing company in Mongolia to pass the strict international audit and its meat products are recognized as of international standard.
Once the prominent Mongolian intelligentsia B.RInchin was asked why Mongolians eat less vegetables, following the answer “Mongolians receive around 500 varieties of herbs through meat”. In other words, traditional pasture herding enriches the meat with every possible nutrients easily processed by human body.
JUST EXPORTING 10 MILLION OF LIFE STOCK WILL GENERATE MORE INCOME THAN OT TAXES
Pasture herding is one of the organic ways and is coveted by many. We were able to increase the life stock to 61 million heads. For many years Mongolian meat market wasn’t able to compete at international level due to lack of any food safety standards.
Makh Market LLC has successfully passed strict requirements and now is the proud holder of internationally acknowledged standard, opening its doors to the export opportunities to neighboring Russia and China. Until recently this was a closed door to meat producers and even was accentuated by Russian President during his recent state visit on opportunities of exporting Mongolian meat to Russian market.
During his speech Mr Tsagaan, Head of the President Office, emphasized the importance of having international standard and it further accelerates the talks with Russia on meat export and the potential of exporting 10 out of 60 million livestock. Just by pricing one live stock at USD 100 will add up to USD 1 billion in revenues and compared to annual income from OT it is far more profitable. Also he emphasized the positive impact on the diversification of economy, expansion of the domestic production and positive outcomes for the herders in general.
Coming week Mr Tsagaan is set to visit Russian Federation in preparation for the Presidential visit in 2015. Agenda for this visit is to prepare cooperation agreement documents. This also includes the possible export of agricultural products without limitations on tariffs and quotas.
More on achievements of Makh Market, it has passed the Chinese control requirements and was awarded the export certificate to supply value added meat produce to Chinese market.
WHAT IS ISO22000?
ISO 22000 specifies requirements for a food safety management system where an organization in the food chain needs to demonstrate its ability to control food safety hazards in order to ensure that food is safe at the time of human consumption. It is applicable to all organizations, regardless of size, which are involved in any aspect of the food chain and want to implement systems that consistently provide safe products.
The certification of international standard requires effort and investments and took over 2 years of preparation including health safety training for the staff, development of over 50 internal regulations, 200 guidelines and registry and compliance to 100 standard requirements.
Main component of ISO22000 Is sanitary standard and the company has now facilities to fully comply with standards. The amenities include shower stalls, safety gear facility and strict guidance for the employees. It also features upscale laboratory facility to examine products with chemical, microbiological and veterinary tests run on a constant basis.
Ms. L.Bolor, CEO, Makh Market LLC has noted that she believes achievement is not only a success for the company, but a milestone for the food safety of domestic food processing market. Company started its way in 2001 and now has expanded into an entity with 180 employees, modern facilities and slaughter house with daily capacity of 1000 livestock, grading of 8-10 tons of meat, produce 3-4 tons of semi processed product and 2-3 tons of processed product. The freezer storage capacity reaches 7500 tons.