Month: June 2024

Our snacks are made safely, responsibly and mindfully. It’s how our consumers can feel confident that the snacks they consumer and enjoy are safe and high quality.

In 2023, we continued having a high percentage of our manufacturers and suppliers certified to food safety schemes that are benchmarked by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). This further supports our ability to offer consumers safe, high-quality snacks they can enjoy and feel good about.

2023 PROGRESS2020202120222023Internal manufacturing certified GFSI 100 %100 %100 %100 %External manufacturing certified GFSI 94 %97 %99 %99 %Raw material supplier certified GFSI 100 %100 %100 %100 %Food contact packaging suppliers certified GFSI 97 %98 %97 %97 %

 

MAINTAINING HIGH STANDARDS

We design consumer safety into all our products right from the outset so they are safe for consumption. To do so, we use a comprehensive quality management system to set standards that ensure the integrity of our snacks and their ingredients.

This includes advanced, science-based risk identification and management processes that help us assess and control factors that could potentially compromise processes and finished products, covering ingredients and packaging alike.

Our management standards covering raw materials, processes and end products are of the highest quality. And our food safety systems are based on the internationally recognized and recommended Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system.

Altogether, our comprehensive approach to safety means our consumers can continue to trust our products.

REGULAR TRAINING AND REVIEWS

Giving our people ongoing training is an important aspect of embedding our standards into our business. In 2023, we trained approximately 8,800 employees and approximately 4,200 suppliers on issues concerning food quality and safety. And auditors of our manufacturing sites and suppliers alike review training records to confirm that all relevant training is completed and recorded.

We review our product quality policies every year based on industry benchmarking and best practices. We also make our own supplier quality expectations publicly available.

GLOBAL FOOD SAFETY SCIENTISTS

Many of our food safety scientists are subject matter experts on the boards of global standard-setting organizations such as the Food Allergy Research and Resource Program (FARRP), European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group (EHDG) and the GFSI.

CHAMPIONING GLOBAL FOOD SAFETY

We are proud to be part of the GFSI as it continues to benchmark and raise food safety standards around the world. Since joining the GFSI in 2006, we have implemented its schemes at all of our plants and expect our suppliers to do so as well. We promote our participation in GFSI with our stakeholders and across the industry.

We support food safety at the highest level of our organization: Our Chairman and CEO is currently co-chair of the CGF Food Safety Coalition, which helps steward the food safety agenda across the world.

View the full 2023 Snacking Made Right Report

June 28, 2024 /3BL/ – Ceres strongly denounces today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn the 1984 decision in Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council. Known as the “Chevron Deference” ruling, the decision overturns a 40-year legal precedent that allowed experts at federal agencies to resolve ambiguities in laws passed by U.S. Congress. Today’s decision to dismantle the longstanding “Chevron Deference” limits federal agencies’ ability to interpret and enforce statutes they administer.

Ceres CEO and President Mindy Lubber said in a statement:

“This devastating decision will hamper federal efforts to strengthen the economy while protecting the environment, vulnerable communities, and public health. Businesses, investors, and individuals rely upon and support the certainty evidence-based and data-driven decisions from agencies provide to comply with complex laws. The data collected and analyzed by agency experts comes after extensive public stakeholder comment as part of the rulemaking process. The court system is simply not equipped to make these decisions. This is the key role of experts within government agencies, and they are best qualified to make decisions about complex technical and scientific matters that require specialized knowledge and expertise.

Today’s decision will lead to the challenge of more regulations in already overwhelmed lower courts, and inject more uncertainty as businesses make major long-term investment decisions that bring benefits to communities across the country. Federal agencies must have the authority to interpret ambiguous statutes and to take decisive and timely action, neither Congress nor the courts can act as quickly or thoroughly as these agencies.”

In April, Ceres published a report on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s track record on such decision-making, which confirmed the integrity of its analysis and market predictions in four separate regulatory Clean Air Act programs.

Today’s decision comes one day after another devastating ruling from the Supreme Court that blocked the EPA’s ‘Good Neighbor Plan.’ The plan aims to reduce emissions from power plants and other industrial sources contributing to air pollution in downwind states.

About Ceres

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and sustainable world. United under a shared vision, our powerful networks of investors and companies are proving sustainability is the bottom line—changing markets and sectors from the inside out. For more information, visit ceres.org.

Media Contact: Diane May, dmay@ceres.org, 617-247-0700 ext. 220

June 28, 2024 /3BL/ – Ceres strongly denounces today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn the 1984 decision in Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council. Known as the “Chevron Deference” ruling, the decision overturns a 40-year legal precedent that allowed experts at federal agencies to resolve ambiguities in laws passed by U.S. Congress. Today’s decision to dismantle the longstanding “Chevron Deference” limits federal agencies’ ability to interpret and enforce statutes they administer.

Ceres CEO and President Mindy Lubber said in a statement:

“This devastating decision will hamper federal efforts to strengthen the economy while protecting the environment, vulnerable communities, and public health. Businesses, investors, and individuals rely upon and support the certainty evidence-based and data-driven decisions from agencies provide to comply with complex laws. The data collected and analyzed by agency experts comes after extensive public stakeholder comment as part of the rulemaking process. The court system is simply not equipped to make these decisions. This is the key role of experts within government agencies, and they are best qualified to make decisions about complex technical and scientific matters that require specialized knowledge and expertise.

Today’s decision will lead to the challenge of more regulations in already overwhelmed lower courts, and inject more uncertainty as businesses make major long-term investment decisions that bring benefits to communities across the country. Federal agencies must have the authority to interpret ambiguous statutes and to take decisive and timely action, neither Congress nor the courts can act as quickly or thoroughly as these agencies.”

In April, Ceres published a report on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s track record on such decision-making, which confirmed the integrity of its analysis and market predictions in four separate regulatory Clean Air Act programs.

Today’s decision comes one day after another devastating ruling from the Supreme Court that blocked the EPA’s ‘Good Neighbor Plan.’ The plan aims to reduce emissions from power plants and other industrial sources contributing to air pollution in downwind states.

About Ceres

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and sustainable world. United under a shared vision, our powerful networks of investors and companies are proving sustainability is the bottom line—changing markets and sectors from the inside out. For more information, visit ceres.org.

Media Contact: Diane May, dmay@ceres.org, 617-247-0700 ext. 220