Food safety is an increasingly important public health issue. Governments all over the world are intensifying their efforts to improve food safety. These efforts are in response to an increasing number of food safety problems and rising consumer concerns amongst food-packaging companies.
Maple Leaf Foods is one of the most popular consumer packaged companies in Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Asia and Mexico. To maintain food safety at the plants is not an easy task for them, especially, after the listeria outbreak. Consumers are more careful in choosing their products and they do have that note at the back of their mind which holds back their options with maple leaf. However, the company has put in enough efforts to provide consumers with good quality food prepared in a safe environment.
A few highlights of their food-safety pledge are:
- Committed to become a global leader in food safety implementation of best practices in sanitation, testing, technologies, product formulations and manufacturing
- Towards building a strong culture of food safety, with high performance teams, through continuous training, education and communicating results.
- To follow the highest standard of testing and analysis to identify potential risk. Any test that raises food safety concerns will result in immediate quarantine, with no products leaving the plant until the Company and government regulatory authorities are confident that the food is safe.
- Committed to setting and meeting high standards and measuring our performance against the Global food Safety Initiative standards through independent audits in order to continuously improve.
- Committed to place public interest and consumers first, by behaving in the most responsible and transparent way possible if there is ever a breach in the food safety system.
- Committed to openly sharing our knowledge with industry, government and consumers, in pursuit of better food safety at every step of preparation.
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