Quality and Food Safety

efficiently Applied Throughout the Production Process

The Best Technological Solutions

We ensure continuous updates to all production elements to guarantee a superior quality finished product.

Commitment to Quality

Quality and Food Safety of the finished product are constant concerns of Nutriceal Foods, S.A. to provide our customers with the best food solutions. As such, we commit to controlling all ingredients from their origin to shipment to the customer, through preparation, production process, and packaging phases. All our products comply with the strictest international standards of Quality and Food Safety, as well as current legal requirements.
At Nutriceal Foods, we continuously work on the development of new products and production procedures to respond to the needs of our customers/consumers.

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Conscious Quality Policy

Being part of an industry dedicated exclusively to the most sensitive consumers, implies, first and foremost, being aware of the need to safeguard the Quality of Life and Satisfaction of all those who rely on our rigor and experience.

With the goal of being a specialist in infant nutrition, Nutriceal Foods, S.A.’s approach involves a clear, dynamic, transparent, and ethical stance in the chain and surrounding environment in which it operates. For this, Nutriceal Foods, S.A. focuses on continuous improvement of its processes, products, and services in an open work environment, with a motivated and trained team dedicated to maximizing

all available resources, compatible with achieving increasingly higher levels of environmental performance and food safety.

The Benavente factory, through a food safety culture and sustainable development, systematically seeks the constant improvement of the quality, safety and authenticity of its products, customer satisfaction, compliance with legal requirements and those of clients and interested parties, and better environmental performance. In the spirit of self-overcoming and transparency, the following strategic guidelines for Food Quality and Safety were defined:

  • To guarantee that all the products are produced in environments considered to be in accordance with the most rigorous Food Quality and Safety standards, ensuring and identifying the risks associated with processes of transformation and implementation of measures that allow for their minimization and control.
  • To comply with and enforce food safety claims, particularly with regard to allergens, among others;
  • To train, inform, and raise collaborators so that they strive for their own Safety and that of their colleagues, for the Quality of the tasks that they perform, always focused on Food Safety, always acting in an aware, ethical, and responsible way; 
  • The whole organization’s involvement in complying with the legal and other applicable requirements and with the standards followed by the company, as well as in the principles of social responsibility, namely child labor, forced or compulsory labor, freedom of association and discrimination; 
  • Effective monitoring of all the processes identified so as to evaluate correctly their performance and promote the continuous improvement of the Management System of Food Quality and Safety. 
  • Clear, dynamic, transparent positioning in constant collaboration with the other links of the food chain so as to ensure the safety of the products and final consumers through: 

  • Selection of quality-controlled raw materials and packaging originating from trustworthy suppliers as a way to guarantee the specificities of the finished product;  
  • Follow-up of the entire production chain from the supplier to the consumer through monitoring diagrams of quality, mutual knowledge, and analysis of information;
  • Follow-up of the degree of client satisfaction and identification of opportunities for improvement, creation, and implementation of forms and models of client relations that will allow to comprehend their needs and expectations so as to guarantee their complete satisfaction and the creation of sustainable value; 
  • Constant updating regarding technological evolution and market demands of either consumers or standards;
  • Existence of plans that allow for minimizing impacts that our products may have on consumers’ health, in case of deviations from established standards;
Quality and Satisfaction

Nutriceal principles include systematically evaluating the degree of customer satisfaction. Various aspects, such as communication, sales and support, product and service quality, are periodically evaluated with customers.
This maintains close communication between Nutriceal and its customers, thus promoting the fulfillment of all their requirements.

Quality Raw Materials

A safe and quality product can only be achieved with safe and quality raw materials. Nutriceal has a Department for Quality Development of Suppliers, whose mission is to establish criteria, control, and support suppliers so that quality and food safety objectives are achieved.

Quality Management System

Nutriceal Foods, S.A. has implemented a Quality Management System to ensure food safety and compliance with quality standards throughout the production chain, supported by a multidisciplinary team consisting of elements who directly deal with the reality of everyday life, with knowledge of the lines or phases of the process under analysis, thus achieving the objective of correct and reliable analysis of the entire production chain.

This system is periodically audited by independent and certified entities as a tool for system improvement.

Currently, the Nutriceal Foods, S.A. factory is certified by the BRCGS – Global Standard for Food Safety.

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Additionally, the Nutriceal Foods, S.A. factory also has the possibility to individually certify (upon customer request) its products according to organic production and Halal production standards.

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Food Safety

Food safety is a priority for Nutriceal, and to ensure it, it has a specialized and multidisciplinary Food Safety Team consisting of personal from various areas involved in the processes (quality, maintenance, production, development, etc.).