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ZOR first achieved NEN-EN-ISO 9002:1994 certification in 1992. Since then management has used the ISO system as a tool for continuous improvement. Recently the standard has been upgraded to the level of NEN-EN-ISO 9001:2000, covering all of our activities:

. Melting, refining, packing and sales of oils and fats.

. Melting and packing of cocoa liquor

Our current ISO 9001-certificate is valid until September 30th, 2010 The ISO total quality manual is used as the framework for other systems and certifications, such as:

. International Organic certifications

Skal-certificate (Inspection Body for Organic Production in the Netherlands)

-	"Processing and filling of edible oils and fats."
-	Organic production methods (Skal-nr 1055 / 1664)
-	Organic imports from outside the EU (Skal-nr 1055 / 7663)
-	Oils and Fats of category > 95% Organic (Skal-nr 1055 / 29544)

JAS-certificate (Japanese Agriculture Standard, JAS-nr 801110)

-	"Pressing, refining, filling, packing, administration, import and export of 100% organic vegetable oils and fats and cocoa liquor."

USDA/NOP-certificate (US National Organic Program, NOP-nr 801110)

-	"Pressing, refining, filling, packing, administration, import and export of 100% organic vegetable oils and fats and cocoa liquor."

BioSuisse (Swiss program for organic production)

AB-logo (French program for organic products)

. GMP (Dutch standard for Good Manufacturing Practice in feed chain)

GMP B1, valid until December 31st, 2010

-	"Processing of soapstock to produce fatty acids, including loading of soapstock and fatty acids for animal feed applications."

. HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points)

Risk analysis of production processes against the European food safety standard

-	Inventory of critical areas and measures in place to control the risks