Smithfield and its independent operating companies work together to ensure livestock traceability and to provide the highest-quality meats and packaged foods to our customers. Our vertically integrated business model helps us manage the safety and quality of our products through careful management, strict policies, and dedicated employees. Responsibility for food safety stretches across our company—from our corporate Food Safety Council to the employees within each of our facilities.
Our Food Safety & Quality Goals
- Deliver safe, high-quality meat products with no recalls
- 100% compliance, 100% of the time
Our Food Safety & Quality Targets
- Obtain 100% GFSI certification for all relevant facilities
- Assure wide variety for different diets and needs and include products designed to address health and wellness in accordance with accepted standards
“Relevant” facilities are those producing meat for human consumption.
We work in partnership with industry, government, and independent experts to create and implement rigorous food safety and quality practices in all our processing facilities. We believe our systems lead the industry and we work hard to make certain we are using the most up-to-date, science-based procedures. In recent years, we have further consolidated our food safety systems and processes to ensure best practices across all of our operations.
We provide information on nutrition, product characteristics, and safe food handling to consumers through our product labels, our Web site, and other outreach efforts.
For information on food safety as it relates to animal health, please see the Animal Care section of this site.
