DeWied Global Food Safety
The Assurance of the DeWied Seal
DeWied’s Global Food Safety Seal means we are committed to upholding global food safety standards fully and completely. Our voluntary efforts are simply to operate with the utmost integrity on a daily basis and to assure you that you are receiving the safest hog casings available.
Our pledge to you is based on:
- Accountability:: DeWied wants to make itself accountable to our customers and our industry. We do this to show that we are serious about “raising the bar” and improving our industry’s standards. We also do this because our families eat sausage too. We want to be sure that sausage is clean and safe for our loved ones, just like you do.
- Responsibility: We take the proper steps to ensure that we can be fully responsible for every product that leaves our facility. “The buck stops here” isn’t just a saying – It’s a way of life for us. Taking responsibility means we can confidently stand behind our product with integrity.
- Transparency: We are open and upfront about where our product has been or will be within a week of slaughter. We have nothing to hide, and achieving our Global Food Safety Certification with a Grade A for two years in a row is a testimony to this.
We welcome your comments and thoughts on the global food safety issue. Please feel free to contact us.
Raising the Bar on Food Safety in the Hog Casing Industry
For years, great sausage has been a staple of family celebrations, holidays and quiet dinners at home. It’s a delicious centerpiece for good times filled with laughter and joy. Some of your fondest memories may include savoring the explosion of flavor on your taste buds, the moment you take the first bite.
But have you ever stopped to think where the skin of that sausage came from?
The skin of sausage is just like the skin of fruit. They are the first things to touch your mouth, so you want them to be clean and safe.
With the recent swine flu epidemic, along with tainted foods such as peanut butter with salmonella and spinach with e-coli, food safety has become a hot topic on many fronts. In 2008, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) named “revamping oversight of food safety” as one of the top 13 urgent issues to be addressed by the Obama administration.
Additionally, the Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) regulation began in 2009. This bill amending the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 requires retailers to inform consumers of the country of origin of muscle cuts and ground beef (including veal), lamb, pork, chicken and goat meat. Surprisingly, hog casings were omitted from this regulation.
At DeWied we, too, are concerned with global food safety. That is why we are voluntarily stepping up to improve industry standards for hog casings. DeWied’s Global Food Safety Seal means we are committed to adhering to the highest global food safety standards available today.
To achieve superior food safety practices, DeWied uses these stringent benchmarks to form the foundation of our promise to our customers. And it’s not easy. It requires significant commitment, focus and attention to detail during each step of the process.
For the past two years, DeWied achieved a Grade of “A” on the Global Food Safety Certificate of Conformity for our China plant. We are proud to announce that we did this on the initial visit each time – No re-audits for major corrective actions were required to get our plant up to specification.
At DeWied, we only use pigs whose origins can be traced. Because knowing where that pig came from and what it was fed makes all the difference in whether the sausage you eat is safe for you and your family.
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