Business View Caribbean | Feb 2019

of CARICOM because we have the land mass and we can grow everything we need,” says Barkman. QPP operates a state-of-the-art facility ded- icated to the highest quality of control stan- dards. The company has HACCP (Hazard Analy- sis and Critical Control Points) certification, an internationally recognized standard for food processing sanitation and safety. Barkman re- ports that almost three quarters of the $7 mil- lion the company has spent in factory upgrades over the past several years was to establish the HACCP certification, which now allows QPP to export chicken. “When you want to export to the Caribbean, you also have to be approved by COTED (the Council for Trade and Economic Development) which is an organization of CARICOM (the organization of fifteen Caribbean nations and dependencies whose main objective is to pro- mote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the bene- fits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy),” he explains. “We got the okay from COTED to export chicken to anyplace in the Caribbean.” ens Distributor of Products and Equipment for Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Systems. We are experts in commercial and industrial refrigeration. We focus on the engineering assessment and distribution of the best brands of refrigeration and heat exchange equipment and components We work hand in hand with all our clients to make and complete successful project info@froztec.com www.froztec.com WE HAVE A WIDE NETWORK OF ADVISERS FOR WORLDWIDE ATTENTION 29