Guaranteeing food safety
Barry Callebaut’s Quality Mission is to provide excellent and continuously improving Quality Standards for our products and services. Quality means continuous fulfilment of the legitimate and justified expectations and needs of Barry Callebaut’s customers, employees and shareholders.
Meeting the highest production standards
Barry Callebaut aims to deliver products and services to its customers and consumers with an absolute guarantee of safety. We work to ensure this in the following ways:
Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) – All Barry Callebaut factories, storage space and equipment are designed, continually updated and used according to GMP standards.
Quality certification –The quality management system at Barry Callebaut has been certified as conforming to the internationally recognized standards ISO 9001 (2008) or BRC/IFS (British Retail Consortium/International Food Standard). The majority of our European sites will have made the transition to BRC/IFS when their existing ISO 9001 certificate expires or by the end of 2011. All our other factories around the world, in Africa, the Americas and Asia, will be BRC/IFC certified before the end of the 2011 calendar year.
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) – A HACCP management plan is in place in all Barry Callebaut production sites. HACCP, which builds on Good Manufacturing Practices, follows a systematic and preventive approach to ensure quality and safety of products and the environment in which they are produced.
Product identification and traceability – The traceability of raw materials, semi-finished and processed products is ensured throughout the Group by a defined identification and traceability system.
Allergen management – Strict procedures are in place to identify allergens in raw materials and throughout production and to eliminate allergens from production sites. Absence of specific allergens can be guaranteed on specified products and production lines, and are site specific.
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) Policy – Barry Callebaut has put in place a strict GMO Policy. It applies to all production operations worldwide.
Specific certifications – Barry Callebaut manufacturers Kosher, BRC/IFS, Halal, Organic and Fairtrade certified products. Specific procedures for the supply and flow of raw materials, production processes, packaging, labelling, storage and transport have been implemented to adhere to these certifications.
Legislation and regulation – The legislative and regulatory standards appli-cable to raw materials, semi-finished products, finished products, and to product labeling in the country or region of production and for certain export countries have been integrated into the Quality Assurance system.
