Traceability of CHEBLA olive oil from grove to bottle: harvest records, lot numbering, laboratory analysis and shipment documents.
Traceability is the ability to answer one question without hesitating: where does this oil come from, and what happened to it? For a buyer it is not paperwork for its own sake — it is what makes a complaint solvable, an audit survivable and a recall limited to the goods actually affected.
At CHEBLA the chain is short by construction. The groves, the mill and the laboratory are in the same area of Sidi Ali Ben Aoun, so the oil does not change hands between harvest and storage. A short chain has fewer places to lose information, and fewer parties whose records we would have to trust.
The lot is the unit of everything that follows. Olives received together are identified on arrival, and that identity stays attached through extraction, analysis, storage and filling. The number printed on your bottle, tin or shipping document is the one under which the analysis was filed.
This is what makes the rest possible. Without a lot number, an analysis describes an oil in general; with it, the analysis describes your oil. It is also why we issue the certificate for the lot being loaded rather than reuse a previous one — a practice that is easy to promise and easy to check.
Each stage leaves something written behind it:
The controls that can stop a lot at each of these moments are described on olive oil certifications; the analyses themselves on olive oil laboratory analysis.
A shipment normally carries the certificate of analysis for its lot, the organic certificate where the organic range is used, and the Tunisian certificate of origin. Other documents are added when the destination market requires them, and are confirmed in writing in the offer rather than assumed.
We hold organic certification from CCPB srl (Italy). Other schemes, ISO 22000 included, are available on request for a given project and are not presented here as held. Traceability is a practice we document; it is not a certificate in itself.
Export paperwork by destination is set out on Tunisian olive oil export.
Two situations test a traceability system, and both are worth preparing for before they happen.
An audit. A retailer or a certification body asks you to demonstrate where a batch came from. Because the lot number ties the goods to the analysis and the analysis to the production records, the answer is a document trail rather than a reconstruction.
A problem in the field. If something is wrong with a delivery, the lot number says exactly which goods are concerned — and, just as importantly, which are not. A supplier who cannot draw that line has to treat every shipment as suspect.
Ask us for a sample document set before you order. It is the fastest way to judge a supplier, and it costs you nothing.
Tell us the range and the destination: we send the certificate of analysis, the certificates that apply and a documented offer.