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Retaining the Top AA BRC Global Standard Certification

Published on 8th October 2021

Meadow Vale Foods are proud to announce the retention of our British Retail Consortium (BRC) Global Standard for Agents and Brokers.

The BRC Global Standards is a leading safety and quality certification programme, used by over 23,000 certificated suppliers in 123 countries, including many of the world’s leading retailers such as Tesco and Walmart.

After a rigorous auditing process to assess compliance to the leading globally recognised food accreditation body, Meadow Vale Foods has again been awarded the Agents & Brokers AA rating, which is the highest possible BRC standard for Food Safety.

The certificate reinforces Meadow Vale Foods’ long-standing commitment to food safety and quality in partnership with the BRC standard, providing customers with the additional confidence of an industry recognised standard.

Nigel O’Donnell, Managing Director of Meadow Vale Foods, was delighted with the certification, stating:

“Retaining the AA grade is of huge importance to the whole team at Meadow Vale Foods, it demonstrates our ability to maintain high standards of food safety year after year.”

“Achieving and retaining this top rating takes time, focus and excellent team work across the business and I’d like to thank our fantastic team for their hard work and commitment to achieve the top AA rating for food safety during a rigorous auditing process.”

“Food safety and robust processes are integral to everything we do. The rating is a significant part of our commitment to maintaining the very highest standards in the Poultry industry.”

“Maintaining these standards has been even more critical during the past 12 to 24 months as we navigate our way through the impact of the pandemic and supply chain challenges giving confidence to our customers in the wholesale, food service and retail industries.”

Jamie Payne, Meadow Vale Foods Group Technical Manager, was a leading figure in the retention of the BRC standard and spoke of his pride relating to high standards set by the Meadow Vale Foods team:

“I am extremely proud once again of our team who work tirelessly in the pursuit of technical excellence, we ensure our standards never slip which is reflected by maintaining this industry leading accreditation."

"The accreditation comes at an important juncture in UK conventional food practice. With new laws now in place to stamp down on quality control in food production, wholesalers and businesses can be rest assured that our production processes are accredited with the highest possible standard of food safety by a recognised food accreditation body.”

Our Commitment to Sustainability

Published on 16th August 2021

Moving our Goodness Me! range to recyclable packaging, eliminating food waste and installing solar panels to help power our offices are just a few examples of steps we are taking on our journey to become a more sustainable business and reduce our impact on the environment.

Packaging

One of our biggest changes is to our packaging, we are delighted to announce a major step forward on our packaging with our relaunched Goodness Me range now using only fully recyclable packaging, reducing our waste to landfill by 9 tonne each year. Alongside this we have reduced the bag size of our popular Cooked Chicken portion range saving a further 1 tonne.

Food Waste

A huge talking point within the industry is around food waste, restaurants are estimated to waste 200,000 tonnes of food each year. Frozen is a great way to combat waste as you only use what you need and it has a much longer shelf life. With our focus on tackling food waste, we have not sent any food to landfill for well over 5 years, we have also seen a huge trend of the industry switching to frozen to combat waste and the unpredictability we experienced during COVID.

Other great changes we have made is ditching the polystyrene when sending out samples to customers, these have moved to a printed carboard box which is fully recyclable and insulated with Wool from Wool Cool a natural recycled product that helps keep our products frozen.

Our main office building is now fitted with Solar Panels helping us produce renewable energy and reduce our carbon footprint.

Finally becoming more sustainable isn’t just about reducing our carbon footprint, we support our local community by making regular food donations to local charities.

Market Report August 2022

Published on 10th August 2022

Welcome to our August 2022 Market Report.

It might come as no surprise that our August Report shows many areas are still experiencing increasing uncertainty since our last update in February 2022. Poultry supply continues to be hit from all sides.

In this report we highlight what we consider the current key drivers of poultry supply and the actions we are taking to minimise their impacts on service to our customers.

As always, the Meadow Vale Foods team is here to support you as the industry continues to work to reinvent the UK’s diverse and exciting food scene.

The highest rating in the Industry for Meadowvale Foods

Published on 23rd September 2022

The highest rating in the Industry for Meadowvale Foods

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