Safety, control, standards and traceability
Food safety certifications
To ensure the safety and quality of our product, all our factories have quality management systems certified to ISO 9001 (Food Safety and Traceability Standards). In particular, the Cermenate plant is FSSC 22000 certified (which is the internationally recognized standard for food safety) while the Quimper, O Grove, Agadir, and Manta facilities are certified according to IFS standards (the European product standard for food safety). These standards guarantee process and production compliance with food safety and hygiene.
These certifications testify to our brand’s commitment to guarantee the products’ quality and customer satisfaction.
Control standards
Every year, we commit to carrying out widespread checks across the production chain, from raw materials to finished products, using certified external analysis laboratories.
When choosing potential suppliers, we only consider companies that can guarantee high quality and hygiene standards. During purchasing, they undergo a series of audits designed to assess their knowledge of aspects related to the quality, hygiene, and safety of the raw materials and to test the efficacy of the practices used during sourcing and processing.
At the same time, we also invite our key suppliers to visit our plants. This allows them to better understand our production processes, our principles of conduct, and our approach to sustainable quality.
We periodically conduct quasi-quantitative research involving our finished goods to monitor consumers’ sensory perception of our products.
Traceability
Traceability is an essential tool to guarantee food safety.
For this reason, we obtained the international ISO 22005 (internationally recognized traceability standard) certification for our DNV-GL traceability system. We are the first Italian company and amongst the first in the world to use this certification to monitor a complex food supply chain. With this technology we can check all our suppliers globally, in real-time while rapidly controlling and monitoring procurement data.
This ensures traceability and consequent maximum food safety of our products.
Thanks to an innovative project launched in collaboration with IBM, our consumers can obtain real-time information about Rio Mare & Saupiquet products by entering the code found on each can in the relevant section on the website dedicated to food traceability.
