Hotel President

Viale degli Aviatori 130, Foggia, Puglia, 71100, Italy | 4 star hotel

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Three day week!!

A travel blog entry by klynch35313

... seeds, and other grains as well as wheat and who goes and what is discussed depends on the time of year. It was a nice trip out as I got to see inland rather than going towards the coast like I always do on the weekend. The hills were much more gentle and green rather than the mountains towards the sea, and some places looked surprisingly like Yorkshire!
Off to Salerno tonight to enjoy the long weekend. Hopefully the weather will be better than last weekend in ...

Week 4

A travel blog entry by klynch35313

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... are always checked before they are filled to make sure the floor is clean and there are no pests.

October 24th
Spent some time in the lab this morning seeing how they check that Sainsbury's products are up to scratch. Sainsbury's use a Quality Assurance Sheet for all their products where the product gets rated between 1 and 3 (3 being the best) on aroma, appearance, taste, packaging etc. They are very detailed and cover things like ...

Quality control in the Mill

A travel blog entry by klynch35313

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... using a special machine. The product of this is a lump of protein that looks and feels a lot like chewing gum! After they have tested the sample they put it in what looks like a mini sandwich toaster and you get a gluten crisp!! Pretty tasty but we all agreed it just needed a bit of Nutella on it...!

Started work this afternoon on translating some of their key working documents from Italian to English (with A LOT of help from ...

Back to Flumeri

A travel blog entry by klynch35313

... be in exactly the correct place, if it is off by the tiniest amount the product may be rejected. In comparison, for Sainsbury's generally the best before date has to be within a specified box and central, but a small deviation is ok so long as the date is legible. Also if the seal of the packet has a tiny bit of pasta in it (but the packet is still secure and closed) again they may be rejected. Within a container full of product, less than 1% of ...

The Packing and the Warehouse

A travel blog entry by klynch35313

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... of Prosecco, perfect!

5th October

Happy birthday Dad!

I have now finished all the tours of the site and so I am beginning to spend time with the different departments to learn more about what they do. I started with Giuditta learning about the quality control systems that are in place. All the documents are in Italian but I can get the jist of it, especially now I am picking up on some of the technical terms like hygiene, research ...

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