Guidelines

BLUEBERRY HARVESTING PICKING REGULATIONS

1. When picking berries please pick again by the 10th day after your first pick, and please follow this time frame again if you intend to do any more picks. We “Starline Foods” find that after the 10th day period, the blueberries start to form very soft. This creates mushy and leaky berry due to the softness, and after the 10th day from the initial pick, we tend to find a lot of SWD!
2. Spraying is important, so we will now be doing unnotified farm visits to check up on your fields to ensure they meet our standards and standard food regulations.
3. Please try to only use our Starline Foods Inc. blue lugs.
4. Do not fill up our Starline Foods Blueberry lugs completely to the top (this helps improve the overall quality of the berry and it is easy to handle without spilling berries).

BLUEBERRY DELIVERING REGULATIONS

1. DO NOT leave the blueberries sitting in the sun! Any completed pallets of blueberries should be kept under a shaded area. The blueberries should not be left out in the sun for more than 3 hours, if this happens the quality of the berry significantly decreases.
2. If you do not have a shaded area, please bring any completed berries to the Starline Foods Inc. facility BEFORE the berries have been sitting in the sun for three hours.

(We will be doing surprise visits to ensure quality of the berry)