<p><strong>Homestead, FL</strong><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Brooks Tropicals has become the first company in the starfruit category to achieve food safety certified audits, with nearly perfect scores. The food safety audits were conducted by PrimusLabs at the company’s starfruit groves, harvesting crews, packinghouse, and storage facility.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Greg Smith, CEO at Brooks Tropicals, states, “Food safety is priority one at Brooks Tropicals. It’s more than excelling at audits; it’s about building a culture where every employee acts as a food safety inspector and is proud to perform the duty.” Peter Leifermann, Director of Sales and Fruit Procurement, adds, “We’re proud of the results which reflects our company-wide efforts in this arena.”<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">The starfruit audit scores contribute to Brooks Tropicals’ record of excellent food safety audits for their SlimCado avocado and Caribbean Red papaya fields, harvesting crews, packinghouses, and storage facilities. Brooks Tropicals has grown starfruit or carambola for over five decades on the west coast of Florida on Pine Island. </p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href="http://www.brookstropicals.com/" target="_new"> Brooks Tropicals </a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
