Rancher’s Legacy has maintained a Safe Quality Food (SQF) Level 3 Certification, the most rigorous and highest level given by the World Standard for Safety Initiative, since 2012.  Our Quality Assurance Managers and Production Managers are HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) and SQF Certified and receive ongoing training.

Our daily testing procedures ensure that we exceed the highest safety standards. Rancher’s only receives meat which is ready to grind and pre-tested with negative results for E.coli O157:H7 on a certificate of analysis from our approved meat suppliers, which is reviewed by our quality manager before we allow the product into our facility.  Daily, our HACCP Certified Internal Quality Assurance teams performs “pre-op” testing and bacterial analysis with oversight from USDA Inspectors before any operations can begin. Once production begins, product samples are pulled periodically throughout the day for on-site evaluation and sensory testing.

Beyond these internal procedures and tests, at the end of each production day we send samples to an outside certified lab for validation to ensure accuracy.

Each evening, a certified external sanitation company fully cleans and sanitizes our facility, including disassembling all grinding and packaging machinery. Each piece of equipment is cleaned and sanitized before being reassembled.