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The quality and safety of products are critical to our Ingredients businesses, alongside developing healthier and more nutritious products.
AB Mauri Chromatography Analysis, Global Technology Centre laboratory, Etten-Leur, Netherlands
Our Ingredients businesses have robust processes and policies in place for their operations and supply chains. They rely on a well-established process for identifying emerging food safety and regulatory risks. These risks are proactively evaluated and managed through their risk registers.
AB Mauri aims for zero food safety incidents or recalls and full customer satisfaction through a Right First Time Product Quality approach. The division uses risk-based food safety and quality (FSQ) systems focused on assessing, mitigating and controlling potential hazards both at production facilities and throughout the supply chain. These FSQ systems, along with scorecards and toolkits that provide procedures, guidance and best practices, reinforce food safety initiatives at every level of the organisation. All AB Mauri FSQ toolkits aim to meet the requirements of one of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) recognised standards, such as FSSC 22000, Safe Quality Food, British Retail Consortium Global Standard (BRCGS) and International Featured Standard (IFS).
All activities are governed by the AB Mauri Global Food Safety internal policy. The FSQ steering group sets the overall approach and direction, while the strategy is implemented through the FSQ leadership team, which consists of regional FSQ heads. The Global Head of Food Safety collaborates with the FSQ leadership team to enhance capabilities through toolkits, scorecards and performance monitoring. AB Mauri conducts formal management reviews of its FSQ management systems annually to ensure their effectiveness.
AB Mauri sites participate in World Food Safety Day activities, with the number of sites participating increasing each year. Many AB Mauri sites join in activities to raise awareness and educate employees, sometimes extending activities to employees’ families and local community organisations and schools.
Food and product safety are paramount to ABFI, which maintains high standards across its operations. To uphold this commitment, ABFI has developed robust governance structures and holds regular product safety working group sessions to share best practices among its businesses. Each business also has internal teams focusing on safety performance tailored to its product portfolios.
The division conducts regular assessments by third-party auditors to ensure compliance with recognised safety standards, such as GFSI and certifications like FSSC 22000, SQF, BRCGS and IFS. In the event of a food safety incident, ABFI works with its product safety consultant, RQA, to review business continuity and crisis management plans.
ABFI integrates product safety into its innovation process, helping to ensure that all new ingredients meet strict internal and external safety standards, including compliance with regulations.
ABFI also includes food safety assurance programmes within its supply chains, ensuring supplier compliance through rigorous testing and risk assessments.
Additionally, ABFI collaborates with customers to ensure that its ingredients perform safely and effectively in their end-use applications. The division provides guidance on formulation, application and labelling.
Our Ingredients businesses develop and produce a range of ingredients that aim to offer health and wellbeing solutions for customers in the food and beverage, functional food, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical industries.
AB Mauri focuses on producing healthier alternatives that prioritise taste and nutritional content, aiming to contribute to a shift towards healthier consumption patterns. Its Global Technology Centre in the Netherlands has successfully developed solutions for its sweet bakery portfolio that enable significant reductions in sugar and fat for different applications, as well as increasing the fibre content, further enhancing their nutritional value.
ABFI’s business activities focus on fostering healthy lives and promoting wellbeing across all ages. With a diverse portfolio of speciality ingredients serving the food, beverage and health sectors, ABFI is well positioned to contribute to global health and nutrition challenges. Health and nutrition are central to its long-term purpose, and science and innovation are leveraged to develop solutions that support better health outcomes, while meeting customer expectations and regulatory standards.
