Import and Export

Kiwa AQS works in various sectors within the fruit and vegetable sector to create customer confidence in products and services. In this way we support the sector with enthusiastic all-round qualified quality controllers and teachers, with years of practical experience. Kiwa AQS's clients include growers, growers' associations, importers and exporters, trading companies, processors and processors, sorting and packing stations, retailers, seed companies/breeders, sector organisations and packaging companies.

  • Grower visits

    Growers, growers associations and trading companies that ship their products directly from growers can use Kiwa once or periodically to monitor the quality of fresh produce. As an independent third party, Kiwa can also rule on conflicts between growers and buyers.
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  • Shelf life study/benchmark

    Fruit and vegetable companies can turn to Kiwa for the quality assessment of products during a fixed period under specific conditions. This shelf life check provides insight into how the quality of products develops over time. This can also be done in a benchmark in which comparable products of different origin, variety, suppliers and in different packaging are compared with each other.
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  • Training Inspector or Quality Assurance Employee Fruit and Vegetables

    Expertise is required for expert assessment of the quality of fresh fruit and vegetables. Affinity with the fresh produce sector and products and a thorough knowledge of it are the most important tools of any inspector, quality controller or fresh produce quality assurance employee. Kiwa helps you obtain this knowledge, with a complete training offer for inspectors or employees of quality care.
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  • In-company training for Inspectors and Quality Controllers Fruit and Vegetables

    Kiwa offers in-company training for inspectors or quality controllers who are active at, among others, cultivation or trading companies. In these tailor-made training courses, the regular product modules can be adapted to the specific wishes of your organization by focusing on meeting customer specifications, storage and retention conditions or the quality of the end product after treatment or processing.
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  • Secondment

    Does your fruit and vegetable company temporarily need extra people with knowledge and experience in the field of fruit and vegetable quality control? Kiwa experts can also be deployed on a secondment basis. The content of the work and the frequency are of course determined in consultation.
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  • Coaching to increase the knowledge level of fruit and vegetable quality

    A short period of coaching or guidance on the shop floor can be a solution to quickly and efficiently increase the knowledge level of employees with regard to the quality of fruit and vegetables.
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