During the audit, traceability has been conducted for the previous lot of woodland (stabilized red rice), lot 060459. There are a number of traceability issue were found which lead to ineffective traceability program;
a. Finished product testing during packing process was conducted, the checking record is a controlled form, FM-QC000-00-021, there is no checking date identification in the record sheet, the record sheet was not also recorded the lot number. Medifoods only records the product name.
b. Finished product testing record (F-QC-03) is available only one sheet / record, however this product was processed and packed 2 days.
c. Quality checking during milling process (F-QC-02) is available, the moisture testing is required for testing once per hour however there is no testing result for the whole day.
d. The parboiling record shows that the parboiling was conducted from 27 Feb to 4 Apr 16 however the drying process record shows that the drying process was conducted from 26 Feb to 27 Feb 16 which is impossible that the drying is happen prior to parboiling process.
e. Unaligned data / record between summary in production order form and drying record; Date Checking time Moisture result in Summary part in Production order
Moisture result in Drying record
26 Feb 16 Before drying 27% 21%
26 Feb 16 After drying 12% 9%
27 Feb 16 Before drying 28% 21%
27 Feb 16 After drying 12% 9%
f. The traceability cannot be done from Parboiled process to raw material lot / receiving date.
g. The traceability cannot be done back to packaging material lot."