Food Safety

Calise and Sons has always taken great pride in providing customers with the highest quality products and services. Toward that end, the Food Safety Department is committed to all areas of food safety and product quality. Under the direction of the Food Safety Manager, the 30-person department is engaged in maintaining the highest standards of food safety, product quality and hygiene.

Calise and Sons uses a proactive HAACP based food safety system which places emphasis on recognizing critical points in the food processing operation that may present a hazard to public health and designing effective and preventative procedures to eliminate food safety risks. Calise Bakery has also been proactive in the area of allergen control. By eliminating all but one allergen from the plant, and instituting procedures that strictly control residual allergens in products, we exceed all state and federal standards for allergen control.

Calise Bakery, Inc. places emphasis on continuous employee training, monthly auditing of plant operations, daily monitoring of plant systems and procedures, a comprehensive system that insures the quality of products and ingredients received and microbial, chemical, physical, and allergen residue sampling programs to insure consistent high quality, safe food products.

On June 11, 2002, the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act was passed into law in response to the events of September 11, 2001. Calise Bakery, Inc. meets all the criteria required under the Bioterrorism Act in regard to food facility registration, product and process security, physical plant security, record keeping, product tracking and detention and recall procedures which enable the company to quickly and effectively respond in the event of an actual or threatened attack on the U.S. food supply.

As a responsible member of the community, Calise Bakery is also committed to a cleaner and safer environment. We have instituted an extensive and inclusive recycling program and re-worked some plant systems to become more environmentally friendly. Currently we are working toward becoming certified as a “Green Company.”

Calise & Sons Bakery, Inc. is licensed and regulated by the Rhode Island Department of Health and the Food and Drug Administration and is inspected by AIB. The company has passed all individual requirements with the highest ratings and passed the most recent FDA inspection with a perfect score. The most recent audit by AIB resulted in an Excellent rating.

As Calise and Sons Bakery continues to grow, so will the company’s commitment to food safety and quality.