How we safeguard quality — from cultivation to production

Words like qual­i­ty and safe­ty is sweet music to every­one in the food and bev­er­age indus­try. But how do you authen­ti­cate this?

The inter­na­tion­al stan­dard for man­age­ment sys­tems, ISO 9001, is such an authen­ti­ca­tion. It was the proof that our long and method­i­cal work in devel­op­ing a man­age­ment sys­tem which con­stant­ly improves and adjusts our busi­ness to meet the needs of our cus­tomers, was worth its salt. For us it also marks the tran­si­tion from a young entre­pre­neur­ial com­pa­ny to a mature com­pa­ny that cus­tomers can trust.

We keep an eye on what we do not do, too

It may make sense to point out what we do not do: We do not grow our ingre­di­ents our­selves. And we don’t make con­sumer prod­ucts with our sweet­ened fibres. But, we safe­guard the high qual­i­ty of our raw mate­r­i­al and that our cus­tomers, the food pro­duc­ers, can man­u­fac­ture a qual­i­ty end product.

So why do we do this?

We buy ingre­di­ents from dif­fer­ent coun­tries and trans­port them to our pro­duc­tion sites in Europe where we make Eureba — our prod­uct range of sweet­ened fibres. To ensure the high­est pos­si­ble qual­i­ty in the end prod­uct, the ingre­di­ents and the man­u­fac­tur­ing must be of the high­est qual­i­ty too. This is why we put an immense effort into find­ing the very best ingre­di­ents and why we safe­guard qual­i­ty through­out the man­u­fac­tur­ing process. We do every­thing and more, to ensure that our prod­uct meets your demands.

Proudly nitpicking

Our ingre­di­ents come from China, the US, The Netherlands, and some oth­er coun­tries. When ingre­di­ents come from sev­er­al places in the world, both avail­abil­i­ty and qual­i­ty can vary. But the qual­i­ty of our sweet­ened fibres is high, con­sis­tent and deliv­ered on time.

To man­age this we must be extreme­ly thor­ough — verg­ing on nitpicky.

It’s not suf­fi­cient to be in con­trol of the man­u­fac­tur­ing step alone. The pre­vi­ous steps must be just as good. And it is fol­lowed by even fur­ther steps before the sweet­ened fibres can replace sug­ar in con­sumer products.

We mon­i­tor all these steps. This is the process that our ISO 9001 man­age­ment sys­tem helps us to con­tin­u­ous­ly improve.

Continuously seeking new and better ingredients

We could, of course, set­tle for what we have now. But we don’t. What is good can always become better.

We con­tin­u­ous­ly seek ingre­di­ents of the high­est qual­i­ty from our sup­pli­ers. And we keep our eyes and ears open for new ingre­di­ents from nat­ur­al sources that might be inter­est­ing to use in our prod­uct range — and which in the end will be a per­fect fit for you who want to replace sug­ar in your products.

We will nev­er rest as regards devel­op­ment and improvement.

Climate conscious transports

All roads lead to Rome, they say. In our case they lead to Bulgaria. This is where we man­u­fac­ture our sweet­ened fibres.

Of course, we keep an eye on our car­bon foot­print when we select trans­port options from ingre­di­ent sup­pli­er to man­u­fac­tur­ing part­ner. One ener­gy con­scious way is to ensure that ful­ly loaded ships are used for the trans­port. That’s why the major­i­ty of our ingre­di­ents are trans­port­ed by sea. (However, it does hap­pen, when there’s a rush order, that we use air freight.)

To cre­ate effi­cient and cli­mate con­scious deliv­er­ies to the Nordic coun­tries we are also plan­ning to place parts of the man­u­fac­tur­ing at a Danish facility.

Code of conduct

It goes with­out say­ing that we wish it was a nat­ur­al fact that chil­dren go to school, and not work. However the world is not always like that. So we put our foot down and do not per­mit child labour. This is one of sev­er­al demands in Bayn’s Code of Conduct.

Fair work­ing con­di­tions and a good work­ing envi­ron­ment are oth­er demands we place on our subcontractors.

No genetically modified ingredients

We are, as we said, nit­picky. Our prod­ucts live up to inter­na­tion­al stan­dards and all rel­e­vant reg­u­la­tions. But we don’t stop at that.

We do not use any genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied ingre­di­ents in our prod­ucts. We select sup­pli­ers who show a great envi­ron­men­tal con­sid­er­a­tion when they grow, har­vest and pre­pare our ingre­di­ents. We don’t com­pro­mise on food safe­ty and hygiene. The same goes for our sup­pli­ers’ pro­duc­tion capacity.

Organic?

Organic would be the log­i­cal thing, right? Yes, but unfor­tu­nate­ly the reg­u­la­tions of the EU throw a span­ner in the works.

There are no obsta­cles to grow­ing and using organ­ic ste­via. But the EU reg­u­la­tions do not allow ste­vi­ol gly­co­sides to be marked as organic.

It’s unfor­tu­nate. We work with ingre­di­ents from nat­ur­al sources and that means, of course, that we are open and inter­est­ed in organ­ic ingre­di­ents. If the rules of the EU will change, we will imme­di­ate­ly look clos­er at offer­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty to pro­vide sweet­ened fibres with ste­vi­ol gly­co­sides from organ­i­cal­ly grown ste­via plants.

Would you like to know more?

We would love to talk to you and tell you more about how we work with qual­i­ty and safe­ty. Send us an e-mail, or give us a call.