Quality is Essential

… especially with the recent series of food contamination scares.
Consumers around the globe are increasingly aware of food quality and safety issues. The issue receives ongoing media attention, as witnessed recently by a number of food contamination scares. Increasingly customers focus on standards in Quality, Reliability, Traceability and Sustainability. DSM is the undisputed leader in this field.

… especially for nutritional and health ingredients.
DSM is the world's largest supplier of vitamins, carotenoids and other ingredients for food, feed, beverage, dietary supplements or personal care industries.

Our products serve a wide variety of needs in human and animal nutrition and health. Each of the applications calls for highly specific ingredient characteristics and requires sector-specific compliance backed up by the relevant documentary evidence.

However diverse their composition and applications, our effective ingredients all meet the high standards expected of us.

… especially when things go wrong.
As health and nutritional ingredients are micro-ingredients, the impact of quality in the value chain is very pronounced. For example, 1 kilogram of Vitamin A translates to the production of 400,000 – 1,000,000 cereal bars, to the production of 3 million eggs or of 8 metric tons of infant formula, reaching a minimum of 9,000 babies!

In recent years, a number of cases involving the contamination and adulteration of food have undermined consumer confidence in the food markets. The way to regain consumers’ trust is to ensure Quality, Reliability, Traceability and Sustainability throughout the complex food chain.

As the only fully integrated player, DSM is uniquely positioned to provide full quality assurance and traceability all along this chain. Thanks to our advanced automated process and material management systems, we are able to precisely and rapidly track all our products within the supply chain and maintain the required information and documentation. In the rare event of an urgent ingredient investigation, we have global systems in place to immediately inquire and inform. All necessary actions are then undertaken to minimize business interruptions.