Quality and food safety

In a market characterised by globalisation, consolidation, vertical integration and ever-increasing customer demands, Gourmand is locked in a daily clamour to retain its existing customers and target and acquire new customers from competitors.

To win this battle, Gourmand sticks to its ambitious yet effective battle plan:

- Claiming the top position when it comes to product and service quality, in accordance with the customers’ demands.

- Striving for continuous innovation and setting new standards with regard to products, business processes and procedures.

Quality – everybody’s business, at all times

Gourmand is passionate about quality combined with speed and flexibility. These values are the cornerstones of our business.

When it comes to raw materials, Gourmand does not compromise: we buy only the highest-quality raw materials from suppliers who meet our stringent food safety standards.

Sampling is done throughout the production process, ensuring that product quality is checked in all phases, from the grain of corn to the end-product delivered to the customer.

Thanks to our continual investment in the highest quality, Gourmand and its customers are able to offer the consumers the best product.

Quality has a label

All the stringent standards and procedures are established in a continually evolving quality control system, certified for BRC at Grade A by AIB Vinçotte/ISA Belgium (International Supplier Auditing). This standard sets out the requirements which a company’s quality control system must meet to achieve the highest possible customer satisfaction, by eliminating deviations at all stages of the production process, from design up to follow-up.

Gourmand’s production process also complies with the HACCP standards (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points). The system, which enables production to prevent, control and assess possible anomalies, guarantees the high quality of the product being brought onto the market.

Gourmand has the GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) label for its by-products, providing our by-product customers with sufficient guarantees of the quality of the supplied products.

These certificates testify of the premium quality offered by Gourmand. Our quality assurance department checks the unconditional observance of these stringent production standards on a daily basis.

Constant quality improvement, traceability and food safety are key principles in Gourmand’s quality policy.

Certificates:

ISA-certificate	BRC-certificate