Feed Mills Editing and Proofreading Services

A batch of layer ration tests positive for a medication that was never meant to be in it. It was in the previous batch, legitimately, and about four kilograms of it stayed in the mixer, the elevator boot and a bend in the conveyor. The mill's sequencing rules exist and are correct. Whether they were followed on the afternoon in question is a matter of what the batch record can show.

We edit what feed mills produce — batch production and mixing records, sequencing and flushing procedures, medicated feed documentation and prescriptions, formulation and specification sheets, feed labels and guaranteed analysis statements, supplier and ingredient acceptance procedures, customer delivery documentation, and audit and inspection responses. Our editors work on the records that show a batch was made the way the procedure says.

The mixing sequence and flush record is the document that keeps unwanted material out of the wrong feed, and its failure is a procedure that specifies the rule without recording its execution. Carryover is physical, predictable and invisible, and only the record shows it was managed. We work through these so the production sequence is written as an order of batches with the reason for the order, since sequencing medicated ahead of sensitive species is the control and an operator who does not know why will resequence for convenience; so the flush is specified by material, quantity and where it goes — reworked into a permitted feed, or discarded — with the destination recorded batch by batch, because an unrecorded flush destination is how the carryover reappears; so the equipment covered by the flush is listed by name, given that a rule covering "the mixer" leaves the elevator, the surge bin and the conveyor untouched; so the record ties the flush to the batches on either side of it by batch number; so any deviation, breakdown or resequencing is recorded at the time with who authorised it; so the sampling point and retention for medicated batches is stated; and so the label and the prescription are reconciled against the formulation actually run. Records written this way answer an investigation instead of starting one.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including formulations, batch records, customer information and inspection correspondence. We are editors rather than nutritionists, millers or regulatory advisers, and we offer no view on formulation, medication or compliance. What we can do is make the record prove the procedure was followed.