Technical Team
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Thistle Seafoods has developed a technical strategy comprising four key tenets: food safety, integrity, legality, and quality.
At the heart of this strategy lies a commitment to embedding a culture of food safety and quality.
Technical expertise, knowledge, cross collaboration, and ongoing training form the foundation of our world-class manufacturing operation.
Our customer is central to everything we do and is the reason we have a cross collaborative technical team to coach individuals in all aspects of our business. We take pride in ensuring colleagues are trained to consistently deliver the first-class service and food safe standards we are known for.
Food safety
Under the guidance of our hygiene manager, who supports, coaches, and directs our colleagues, we have formed an excellent hygiene team to uphold and deliver our first-class food safe standards.
Integrity
KPIs and metrics are used to analyse emerging trends to protect and enhance our technical integrity across all our operations.
Legality
We take our legal responsibilities seriously from sustainability and environmental responsibilities to ethical sourcing, ensuring our business fully complies with current legislation.
Quality
At Thistle Seafoods, we believe in ‘Doing the Basics Better’. Our technical team drives the quest for continuous improvement in quality across our sites, coaching individuals while empowering teams to uphold the highest standards of food safety and quality.
Technical Team
Our technical team comprises trained and experienced professionals who embody our ethos of continuous improvement. Through our robust training and skill development programmes, we ensure that all our colleagues are equipped with the knowledge and expertise necessary to excel in their roles.
Central to our operations is our state-of-the-art on-site UKAS laboratory. Under the auspices of a dedicated GMP Inspector responsible for reducing foreign bodies in the factory, our laboratory conducts microbiological and allergenic analyses with precision and accuracy. We remain vigilant in our efforts to reduce foreign bodies and uphold the highest standards of cleanliness and hygiene.
In our quest for excellence, our multi-disciplinary team collaborates seamlessly to improve quality across all aspects of our operations. This includes implementing rigorous HACCP/TACCP/VACCP protocols to prevent hazards, threats, and vulnerabilities to conducting risk-assessed supplier approvals and audits.
Our commitment to auditing is unwavering, evidenced by our attainment of an unannounced BRCGS AA+ rating. Additionally, our full internal audit schedule ensures that we always maintain stringent standards, leaving nothing to chance.
In essence, our technical team is not just a group of individuals; they are the guardians of our safety and quality standards, working tirelessly to uphold our reputation as a trusted provider of top-quality food products.
Innovation Kitchen
OUR COLLABORATIVE AND AGILE APPROACH TO PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SETS US APART.
- Bringing restaurant dining experience to your home
- Healthier fish options
- High fibre, high protein, 1 of your 5-a-day, low salt, healthy and delicious fish with sauce
- Utilising Asian, Middle eastern and South American on trend cuisines
- Inspiration from leading restaurants and global market trends.
- Diversifying and driving growth by introducing customers to new sustainable fish species
- Taking advantage of the increase in consumers adopting a pescatarian diet.
let’s talk numbers …
Our facilities in Boddam and Uddingston produce 700mt per week
%
of UK chilled fish market
%
of UK coated & cakes market
%
of coated fish sold in the UK
%
of fish cakes sold in the UK
%
of our turnover is in exports *
* Exports to EU, Australia, Canada, USA. Source: Thistle Seafoods 2022