BASF Nutrition Ingredients business unit ensures food safety - (BASF)
March 17, 2008 – 7:23 pmhttp://www.prdomain.com/companies/B/BASF/newsreleases/200831754336.htm
Where does the salmon fillet in the freezer come from? What’s in chickenfeed, and possibly also in the barbecued chicken later on? Especially when it’s about the food they eat, consumers want to know what they are buying and what ends up on their plate.
The requirements to be complied with by feed and food manufacturers are correspondingly high in terms of safety, quality, traceability, and environmentally benign manufacture of individual products and ingredients.
The BASF Nutrition Ingredients business unit has now developed a method that makes all these aspects transparent. “Our S.E.T. initiative allows feed and food manufacturers to trace exactly which ingredients were used and which conditions applied in the manufacture of a product,” says Dr. Christoph Günther, the man in charge of the initiative in the Nutrition Ingredients unit.
S.E.T. stands for Sustainability, Eco-Efficiency and Traceability and is based on the TÜV-certified (TÜV stands for Technical Standards Or-ganization, a […]
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