Quality and food safety (QFS) is a foundational pillar of how Bunge operates. All employees have a responsibility to ensure every partner along our value chains follows safe food practices.
We leverage comprehensive quality and food safety management systems and strive to achieve continuous high quality and safety to meet our customers’ expectations and protect their valuable brands.
Quality and food safety management processes are integrated into all of our activities and operations to ensure the grain delivered to our end use customers meets the highest standards.
This ensures we meet customers’ individual needs, as well as the varying requirements of importing and exporting authorities to maintain market access for farmers’ grain across international and local destinations.
Prior to export, grain is tested for quality a minimum of four times at various points along our supply chain.
We subscribe to the Australian Government’s National Residue Survey (NRS) for testing chemical residues in cargoes at the point of export, and participate in its residue chemistry and laboratory performance and evaluation programme.
We also work with the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment who ensures grain meets the importing country’s requirements, along with internationally accredited service providers who independently confirm the grain meets the specifications of our customers.
We hold a number of accreditations and certifications in recognition of the exacting food safety and quality management standards our supply chain meets.
All our facilities are ISO 22000:2018 certified, the highest certification of any grain supply chain in Australia and meet the highest international standards of food safety and quality management. ISO 22000:2018 outlines the management framework to effectively manage food safety requirements.
We are certified by the China Quality Certification Centre (CQCC) for adherence to Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) based procedures to manage food safety through identification and control of potential hazards.
We are CQCC certified for the transportation and storage of cereal products at our six South Australian export terminals and our Dooen container packing site, in addition to the processes and systems in place at our Adelaide office, demonstrating our stringent food safety management procedures.
Grain sourced through our network is prepared and stored following Halal standards and requirements recognised by the Halal Certification Authority Australia to meet some end user requirements. View our Halal certificate.
Legislative requirements for classification equipment are set out by the Australian Government’s National Measurement Institute (NMI). Our equipment is verified in accordance with this which ensures consistent testing throughout the network. Our field officers are trained and certified by the NMI to undertake the required verification procedures.
Our laboratory holds several accreditations through the National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) for processes in line with international standards. This includes an accreditation to carry out in-house glyphosate testing on multiple grain commodities, which is used to confirm grain within our network meets the varying maximum residue limits of importing countries.
At the centre of our quality and food safety systems is our state-of-the-art laboratory. The purpose-built facility located in South Australia supports our national network of sites by testing at multiple points throughout the supply chain.
Our laboratory conducts comprehensive grain classification, testing for end user quality specifications and chemical residue testing. It also oversees testing conducted at all our sites across Australia.
Our classification equipment is verified in accordance with the Australian Government’s National Measurement Institute (NMI) legislative requirements ensuring consistent testing throughout our network.
The laboratory is accredited for processes in line with the international standards, ISO17025 and ISO17034 through the National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA).
Our laboratory also participates in a collaborative benchmarking programme with major testing laboratories in Australia.
Our processes and testing give confidence that we are able to meet end use customers’ quality specifications as well as importing countries’ food safety requirements.
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