GREEN COFFEE SQA

• Audit Title

• Document No.

• Client / Site

• Conducted on

  Date

• Prepared by

• Location
  Address

• Personnel

Harvesting

• Good agricultural practices employed?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Weeding, organic materials or coffee by-products are used to improve soil texture and not added just before flowering?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Removal of fallen cherries, and prevention of contamination of main crop from old fallen cherries?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Use of traps to control coffee berry borer?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Use of an integrated pest management control program?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• No chemicals used to fertilize or control pests?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Harvesting done as soon as there is enough ripe cherries for sensible harvest, and selective multi-pass picking is done?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Proper planning of harvesting?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• No mixing of different processing categories?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

Post Harvest Processing

• Use of good practices during drying, no fruit dried on plant?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• No retention of harvested fruit in bags or heaps?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Removal of floats?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Proper maintenance of drying equipment?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• No delays when cherries arrive for drying?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

Wet Processing

• Uniformly ripe cherries used?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• No skins, crushed immature, unpulped and undersized cherries in fermentation and drying?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• No delays in processing?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Use of recycled water?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Amount if broken/nipped/cut beans checked after washing?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Regular equipment maintenance?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Good water quality?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Fermentation as short as possible?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Monitoring of fruit flies?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Amount of non-coffee byproducts checked after washing?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Drying

• Proper location of drying yard?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Proper management of coffee to be dried?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Partially dried coffee protected from re-wetting in rainy conditions?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• No mixing if different types of coffee?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Drying yard protected from access by animals?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Alcohol traps around drying yards?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Coffee dried uniformly to less than 13%mc?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• All equipment clean and maintained?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Dried Coffee Handling and Trading

• Operation of storage facility optimized to prevent damage and cross-contamination?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Coffee quality is preserved until it is sold?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Initial condition and age of received stock is recorded?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Bags arranged on pallets, away from floors and walls?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Bags are well stacked?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Warehouse checked for coffee weevil?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Labeling and traceability systems present?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• No non-food items stored with coffee?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Moisture content of stock regularly checked?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• No physical damage to coffee after cleaning and sorting?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Facility is maintained, regularly inspected and cleaned?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Defects removed?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Prevention of re-wetting of bags, especially during transport?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Vehicles clean, in good condition and maintained?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A

• Shipped as per contractual standards?

  Safe

  At Risk

  N/A