The ingredients used in aquaculture feed come from diverse supply chains, each with its own nutritional, quality, safety, regulatory, environmental and social considerations. Our approach is to define requirements for raw materials and suppliers, assess relevant risks before approval and monitor approved sources over time.
Traceability supports ingredient approval, food and feed safety, verification and supply-chain risk assessment. The information available varies by ingredient and supply chain. We require key information from suppliers and maintain lot and batch records that connect received ingredients with finished feed. Where primary-production or manufacturer information is not available directly, this is considered in the risk assessment and follow-up.
Traceability, audits and certification provide evidence within their defined scope and support the identification and management of environmental and social risks. They do not provide assurance beyond that scope.
The production of high quality feed starts with sourcing the correct high quality ingredients. To ensure that our ingredients are of the correct quality we engage into a high level of co-operation with our suppliers.
For new ingredients and new suppliers it all starts with a mandatory approval process which aligns the ingredient’s quality criteria to our own quality criteria.
For this initial assessment we require potential suppliers to provide us with:
Skretting is committed to sourcing all vegetable ingredients originating from land that has not been converted from natural habitat to cropland through deforestation or other forms of conversion. The planning and execution of this commitment will be a journey of several years and depends heavily on the ingredient and region we are dealing with.
The Nutreco-wide soy sourcing policy aims to simplify complex certification schemes for procurement teams in Skretting and Trouw Nutrition, and facilitate the complete removal of deforestation from our supply chain by 2025. The policy forms part of Nutreco’s Sustainability Roadmap 2025.
