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Contessa—You Can Buy Your Fresh, But You Can Get Your Frozen Fresher
Unless you catch or harvest fresh shrimp in your backyard and prepare it within minutes, you will probably have to buy it at the seafood counter, where the shrimp for sale is unlikely as fresh as you think.
Oftentimes, "fresh" shrimp is the most unfortunate of shrimp; it spends days at a time idling away on ice in the hold of a ship or at a distribution center. By the time it reaches your seafood counter, the shrimp, exposed to time and to temperature fluctuations, has deteriorated to a state that can be considered less than fresh.
Contessa's farm-raised shrimp is processed and frozen within hours of harvest, sealing in all of its natural flavor and goodness. Our state-of-the-art cryogenic freezers are now capable of instantly locking in all the freshness and quality you want and expect from shrimp that was "just harvested!"
In addition to undergoing a cryogenic deep freeze, our shrimp is processed in temperature-controlled facilities and is monitored and regulated during transport, so when the shrimp reaches you, it tastes as fresh as the day it was pulled from the water.
Exceeding Quality Assurance Standards
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"In the absence of standards, we set them. Where standards exist, we exceed them. No one has a stronger, more steadfast commitment to maintaining the highest levels of consistent quality than Contessa. No one."
— John Z. Blazevich CEO & President
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Contessa's International QA Strategy
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Evaluating Farms
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Inspecting Raw Materials
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Implementing Comprehensive Food Safety Measures
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Examining Finished Products
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Quality Assurance (QA) is more than a practice or policy. Maintaining an assurance of quality must be a promise if the words are to live up to their full meaning. Contessa Premium Foods made this promise over 20 years ago and continues to keep it.
Ensuring the freshness, flavor, texture, safety, and overall taste of our products is Contessa's number one priority.
From our farms to our processing and distribution centers, Contessa regularly exceeds the highest government standards for QA programs. Our all-encompassing, meticulous QA program sets guidelines for quality in research and development, processing, and packaging.
Headquartered in the U.S.—with offices around the globe—Contessa's QA professionals monitor all aspects of our international quality assurance strategy. We always strive to make the last shrimp better than the first.
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