I am at a very, very small-scale middleman frozen fish processing facility. Most of our materials are checked by sight and smell on a daily basis while in production and randomized samples are sent to a 3ed party lab at least once a month.
We are now evaluating a new supplier and I sent a sample of their materials to the lab for Peroxide and TBA. It just came back that the Peroxide is N/A but the TBA is 5.5. Google says most fish are generally considered good quality is they are <3 and acceptable quality if < or = to 5. it was also noted that some species are statistical outliers.
We do not yet have a policy for lab specs. How do you establish them? I am very new to the industry and the boss doesn't know either. Do we knowingly gamble or play it safe with googled info.