Food Safety
The results of our rigorous testing program continue to show that our salmon is both safe and healthy.
In 2022, we increased our focus on implementing common global systems for our processing plants, such as traceability systems and common databases for microbiological results.
Food safety hazards
Environmental contaminants
Environmental contaminants in our feed and fish remain well below the safe limits (MRLs) set by food safety authorities around the world. Through our ONEMowi Operational Excellence Program, we ensure a harmonized control program for undesirable substances within the Mowi Group. In this program, we include heavy metals, pesticides, GMOs, mycotoxins and dioxins/dioxin-like PCBs.
In recent years, a comprehensive monitoring program related to microplastics has been implemented. This allows us to understand what impact microplastics can have on our value chain.
Pathogenic bacteria
Pathogenic bacteria are controlled to prevent contamination in our products, both to ensure the safety of our own ready-to-eat and ready-to-use products and to ensure that fish sold to commercial customers for further processing is risk-free. Listeria monocytogenes is one of the potential foodborne pathogens in fish products consumed without prior heat treatment.
With the increased consumption of raw salmon in products such as sushi, it has become even more important to completely control the risk of Listeria contamination.
Drug use and residues
Fish, like other animals and humans, can get sick and need help. Our approach to drug use and drug residues is very strict and is designed with an emphasis on disease prevention and fish welfare. Our fish health professionals use medication only when other measures are not sufficient or when fish welfare may be compromised. Each prescription is signed by a certified veterinarian or fish health professional and the approval process is strictly monitored by the relevant authorities.
Our product recall system is part of our ONEMowi Operational Excellence Program, in which we have specific policies and standard operating procedures regarding incident reporting and crisis management. Each business unit has its own crisis team that handles incidents locally.
