Accreditation, Quality System and Labelling

Based on this convention, SSICA is authorized to indicate a certain number of tests as “accredited”.
Accreditation of a test method by ACCREDIA guarantees that it is carried out in compliance with the requirements of the UNI CEI EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard and other ACCREDIA prescriptive documents.
SSICA ensures, among other things, the employment of qualified and competent personnel, the use of efficient and calibrated instruments, the use of suitable reference materials, the maintenance of environmental conditions as not to invalidate the test, the implementation of a preliminary study on the performance of the method by validating and estimating the uncertainty of the results, where applicable.
ACCREDIA accreditation avoids tests repetition in the exporting countries that acknowledge it. This approach is further strengthened with the establishment of mutual acknowledgment agreements between the various laboratory accreditation bodies.
SSICA is authorized to use the accreditation body’s mark (ACCREDIA) in the cases and in the manner prescribed by the body itself. For this reason, the mark will be reported on the Test Reports only if these contain at least one accredited test and the non-accredited tests will be marked with an asterisk (*) which refers to the phrase “TEST NOT ACCREDITED BY ACCREDIA”.
The Client is informed that the mark or the reference to accreditation must not be used in the documentation concerning a product, or be reported on a product, while reporting the complete copy of the Test Report is permitted.

SSICA is also authorized by ACCREDIA to use the ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation) trademark relating to international acknowledgment in which the accreditation bodies of more than 30 countries from all over the world participate.
The updated official list of accredited tests can be requested by the Client at any time from the Sample Reception Office, whose references are:

SSICA – Experimental Station for the Food Preserving Industry
Multi-site laboratory
Headquarters A – Parma headquarters and operations
ACCREDIA accreditation number: 0122L
Rosaria Conforti
rosaria.conforti@ssica.it
0521 795213
Luca Guareschi
luca.guareschi@ssica.it
0521 795213

Headquarters B – Angri operations
ACCREDIA accreditation number: 0122L
Vincenza Landi
vincenza.landi@ssica.it
081/5133712
Giuseppina Ferraioli
giuseppina.ferraioli@ssica.it
081/5133720

The Analytical tests carried out in the laboratories are one of the strengths of SSICA alongside studies and assessments on production processes to allow both compliance with legal obligations and added value for food production.

The SSICA laboratories operate in compliance with the International Standard ISO/IEC 17025: 2017 and are accredited by ACCREDIA (National test laboratory accreditation system) for performing microbiological, physico-chemical, biochemical and nutritional, microscopic and sensory analyses.

Updating, dissemination and consultancy service to companies on food labelling and other mandatory regulatory issues (food safety, additives presence, marketing, export, traceability …) and voluntary (quality management systems and food safety).

Because of the increasingly articulated, complex and sometimes contradictory legislative framework in the field of food safety and other issues of interest to food companies, the latter have often to face big problems in the interpretation of the rules, in the correct fulfilment of what provided therein, in the management of relations with supervisory bodies and in the resolution of commercial disputes.

This is why SSICA, while retaining its nature as a technical-scientific institute, is committed to offering its contributing companies a “first assistance” service in dealing with problems relating food legislation, by telephone advice, e –mailing or in the form of written reports.
Telephone advice (or by e-mail) on general topics or individual aspects of rapid resolution is dedicated to contributing companies and is free.

In-depth advice on particular issues and for the resolution of specific problems with control bodies, suppliers and customers, etc. is provided by e-mail and/or in the form of written reports, upon request by the companies, to which the best offer will be sent calculated on the basis of the working hours of commitment and relating rates (facilitated for contributing companies).