FRIGOL QUALITY: OPENING UP POSSIBILITIES THROUGH GREATER FOOD PRODUCT SAFETY
Frigol is fully committed to delivering safe food products to customers. It adopts strict production controls and has a Food Quality and Safety Department to establish and monitor the safest procedures to be complied with by plants, meeting various international protocols and legal requirements imposed by the countries where we are authorized to operate.
Our Food Quality and Safety Department coordinates works together with production units, guiding and monitoring procedures through constant communication and internal audits. As a result, we have fundamental pillars to ensure food products will meet all the expectations of our customers and consumers.
FOOD SAFETY
Ensuring food products that are free from accidental or interclonal contaminants.
QUALITY
Ensuring compliance with product sensory specifications.
AUTHENTICITY
Ensuring large-scale production flow and reliability of food products that will be delivered to consumers.
LEGALITY
Ensuring that target markets and their respective clients comply with legal requirements.
FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY POLICY
The policy of Frigol is to continuously improve its processes and products, meet the needs of customers and stakeholders, produce authentic products, comply with legal requirements, and achieve high food quality and safety standards, by training employees, partners and suppliers.
Our fresh beef and pork plants are certified by the HACCP program. Additionally, our fresh beef plants meet the BRCGS Food Safety Standard, with units audited by an independent certifier authority.
Our quality management system is secure and effective, proven by the results obtained last year. The company maintained all its export authorizations, being present in over 60 countries worldwide. Also, we did not record any product recall in any of our plants.
We use several controls to guarantee the quality and safety of the food products we produce, namely:
Programas de Qualidade e Segurança de Alimentos Implantados pela Empresa
FRIGOL’S ANIMAL WELFARE POLICY
- To respect all animals, avoiding the unnecessary suffering of animals destined for slaughter at our company.
- To constantly promote procedures for the well-being of received animals, complying with laws and producing high-quality food products for our customers.
- To further strengthen our partnerships with cattle suppliers.
- To support in animal handling practices in rural properties, seeking the best animals.
Our parameters include the Brazilian law, but due to our authorizations, we follow protocols such as the European Union’s CEEE 1099 Regulation, and the Protocol of the North American Meat Institute (NAMI).
We follow the Five Freedoms, as per the Farm Animal Welfare Committee (FAWC):
PHYSIOLOGICAL FREEDOM:
To ensure conditions that avoid animal hunger, thirst and malnutrition.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FREEDOM:
To ensure conditions that avoid animal fear and anguish.
ENVIRONMENTAL FREEDOM:
To ensure conditions that avoid physical and thermal discomfort.
SANITARY FREEDOM:
To ensure conditions that avoid animal pain, injury and disease.
BEHAVIORAL FREEDOM:
To ensure conditions that allow for normal animal behavior.
Our teams (employees, drivers and leaders) are trained in different stages of the process so as to diffuse our culture and the best animal welfare and handling practices.
Our units have a specific employee to assess the requirements of the company’s humane slaughter program. This professional monitors processes and takes action to ensure that all chain procedures are followed.
We created an Animal Welfare Committee together with the leadership of the units aiming to define actions to ensure compliance with the animal welfare policy and obtain results that will continuously improve the industry and its processes.
Every day, we work to improve the animal welfare industry together with farmers, origination teams, leaders and employees, and ANIMAL ABUSE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED BY THE COMPANY, reinforcing that animals sent for slaughter are the food put on the table of many families, including ours.
Skilled labor
Frigol employees are trained and equipped to follow the best food manufacturing practices, always ensuring the delivery of healthy and safe products. Additionally, the company monitors its direct suppliers from which all fresh product lines come.
AUTHORIZATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS
