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Animal feed safety is non-negotiable for all AB Agri’s businesses. The division strives to supply safe products, services and advice, supported by clear and consistent policies and standards.
Piglet feed, AB Neo Centre of Excellence
Delivering feed safety and quality in a continually changing global environment poses significant challenges, particularly with risks related to economic, biological, technological and labour factors. To address these, AB Agri adopts a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and mitigating risks related to feed safety and quality.
AB Agri manages feed safety through its Target Zero programme, which also covers health and safety, site environmental compliance and security. Target Zero aims to equip all teams to deliver their feed safety responsibilities by driving collaboration across the businesses and continuously seeking effective solutions to meet current and anticipated safety and quality challenges.
Building on previous years’ efforts to strengthen consistency and rigour in its Feed Defence programme, AB Agri further enhanced its Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (‘HACCP’) framework in 2025. This focused on improving the identification, assessment and control of unintentional risks within its own operations, with particular emphasis on the role of human factors in hazard analysis and critical decision making.
A cross-business task force was established to review HACCP approaches across the business. The review considered how controls are defined, implemented and verified across different operating environments, together with the effectiveness of supporting training, competency and governance arrangements. It also provided valuable insight into the consistency of HACCP application across sites, helping to identify opportunities to strengthen standardisation, share best practice and further enhance risk management processes.
As a result, AB Agri updated its internal HACCP policy and supporting guidance to reflect harmonised best practice across the organisation. All operating companies are progressing updates to their HACCP studies, supported by enhanced tools, standardised methodologies and strengthened central oversight. Ongoing assurance is delivered through established audit and verification processes.
As a supplier of animal nutrition and farm performance services to the agri-food supply chain, AB Agri recognises the growing importance of responsible and affordable nutrition for both people and animals. AB Agri is committed to supporting the agriculture industry in providing affordable, safe and nutritious food. This includes meeting the growing demand, particularly in developing markets, for accessible protein sources such as chicken, milk and eggs.
Dairy products are widely recognised for their nutritional value and dairy processors are increasingly rewarding farms that produce milk meeting higher environmental standards, aligning profitability with both output and environmental stewardship. AB Agri has developed a comprehensive portfolio of products and services for the dairy industry. This includes data and advisory services through its NMR, IFCN, Kite Consulting businesses and its feed and on-farm carbon measurement services from AB Sustain. This unique offering allows AB Agri to provide extensive insights into both output data, such as production volumes, milk quality and on-farm emissions, and input data, including genomics and feed analysis.
As global dietary habits shift and nutritional challenges emerge due to population growth, rising incomes and changing consumer preferences, AB Agri is strategically positioned to anticipate and respond to future food demands.
