GIS Inspection’s quality control inspection ensures freshness, safety, and compliance from farm to market for agriculture products.
Agricultural products—such as fruits, vegetables, grains, spices, herbs, and other fresh produce—are highly perishable and often sensitive to contamination, mislabeling, or improper handling.
GIS Inspection's agriculture products department, a team of technical managers, inspection engineers, and audit specialists, enforces strict adherence to buyer-specified quality plans and industry regulations.
By prioritizing quality inspection, both agriculture products manufacturers and buyers can ensure safety and regulatory compliance and maintain quality, customer satisfaction, and overall business success.
To ensure your agriculture products are reliable, safe and compliant, book an inspection today!
Types of Third-party Agriculture Products Quality Control Service
Ensuring the safety, quality, and compliance of agriculture products is critical—both for consumer safety and for meeting stringent regulatory requirements. GIS (General Inspection Service) provides specialized inspection services tailored to the unique risks and challenges of agriculture products.
Our agriculture products quality control services include:
Factory Audit
A Factory Audit ensures that the supplier or vendor can design and produce according to normative requirements. It also ensures that a new or existing manufacturer can deliver quality products, undertake continuous improvements and operate efficiently.
GIS’s auditor qualifies or disqualifies a potential supplier based on manpower, production capability, production and related system, quality control, follow up and suggestions before you start working with them.
Pre-Shipment Inspection(PSI)
PSI also called Final Random Inspection (FRI) -A detailed visual and final inspection in agriculture products industry on randomly selected finished products. It takes place when the merchandise is completed, packed and ready for shipment. The quantity, size, shape, and weight conformity, absence of bruising, mold, decay, or pest damage, color and appearance consistency, and packing details are verified to ensure that the contract specifications are met.
Loading Supervision (LS)
A Container Loading Supervision is an on-site inspection service designed to ensure your agriculture products are shipped exactly as ordered, in the right quantities and condition.
GIS loading supervision services check your products before shipment to ensure the intended goods and quantity loaded into the container are in accordance with your purchase order.
GIS Inspection Checklist for Agriculture Products
By identifying problems early and providing reliable verification, GIS helps ensure that only safe and compliant food agriculture products reach the end consumer.
Classification and Quality Grading Based on Fruit Standards
GIS inspectors evaluate fruits based on national and international quality standards, such as China’s GB standards, Codex Alimentarius, or specific client specifications for export markets. The classification process includes detailed screening based on several key criteria:
Appearance Inspection
- Surface quality: Presence of bruises, scratches, punctures, discoloration, or signs of pest infestation.
- Uniformity: Consistency in size, shape, and color.
- Maturity: Ensuring fruits are harvested at the optimal ripeness stage, suitable for transport and shelf life.
Taste and Texture Evaluation
Where applicable, inspectors may perform sensory checks to evaluate:
- Flavor consistency: Whether the taste meets expected standards (e.g., sweetness in mangoes, tartness in citrus).
- Texture: Juiciness, firmness, or crispness, depending on the type of fruit.
Weight and Size Verification
Fruits are checked against specified gram weight ranges and size classifications.
Out-of-spec samples are documented to determine the acceptable defect rate.
Sweetness and Acidity Testing
Using a portable refractometer, GIS inspectors can test:
- Brix (°Bx) level to assess sugar content.
- Acidity level (if required) to measure fruit tartness or shelf-life potential.
- This is especially important for export clients with strict sweetness thresholds for products such as table grapes, apples, and citrus fruits.
Hygiene and Safety Control of Factory and Personnel
In addition to evaluating the physical quality of the agricultural products, GIS places strong emphasis on food safety and hygiene controls at the production and packing sites. The overall hygiene control checklist includes the following areas:
Factory and Facility Cleanliness
- Cleanliness of sorting, packing, and storage areas.
- Absence of pests or contamination risks.
- Waste and water management practices, particularly for wash stations.
Processing Environment Monitoring
- Adequate temperature and humidity control in storage areas, especially cold rooms.
- Regular cleaning schedules and records are reviewed.
- Equipment used for sorting and packing must be clean and in good condition.
Personnel Hygiene
- Workers must wear appropriate protective clothing (gloves, masks, caps).
- Hand-washing stations and sanitizer availability.
- Compliance with hygiene protocols (no jewelry, no open wounds, etc.).
Pest Control and Preventive Measures
- Facility pest control logs are checked.
- Physical barriers and traps are examined.
- Fruit crates, bins, and containers are inspected for cleanliness before use.
Additional Quality Control Chenk
Depending on client requirements and product type, GIS can also perform or coordinate additional checks:
- Labeling verification: Country of origin, product name, lot number, and expiry date.
- Packaging integrity: Strength and food-grade compliance of cartons, liners, and wrappers.
- Barcode scanning: To ensure traceability and alignment with supply chain records.
- Sampling for lab testing: Pesticide residue, microbial load (e.g., Salmonella, E. coli), and heavy metals, if required.
- Cold chain validation: Inspectors check the temperature loggers or conduct spot temperature checks to ensure cold chain compliance.
GIS Agriculture Products Inspection Service Process
The acceptance of agriculture is the comprehensive monitoring and acceptance of agricultural products from the gathering place to the delivery process which based on the fruit quality standards.
- Inspection of material warehousing
- Inspection of material storing process
- Monitoring on fruit selection and packaging process
- Inspection of finished products inventory
- Warehouse-out and shipping inspection of finished products
GIS Agriculture Products Quality Control in China
In the modern agricultural supply chain, where speed, volume, and consumer expectations are higher than ever, maintaining consistent quality control is both a challenge and a necessity.
Agricultural product inspections are not just about quality—they’re about trust, safety, and consistency. GIS inspection delivers reliable, independent quality control that protects your brand and satisfies your buyers.
GIS (General Inspection Service) also offers specialized quality inspection services tailored to the unique characteristics and risks of agricultural products—especially fresh produce such as fruits and vegetables. Through systematic on-site inspections and detailed reporting, GIS helps clients reduce the risk of food safety incidents, non-compliance penalties, and costly supply chain disruptions.
By partnering with GIS, companies can safeguard their brand reputation, protect users, and ensure smooth market access worldwide.
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