Each of our ingredients can be traced back to our trusted suppliers. Our experts not only check the ingredients when they arrive at our factories, but also evaluate the quality from their production source.
QUALITY ASSURANCE
Before working with a suppiler, our technical team conducts rigorous sampling to ensure that the Ingredients meet our standards.
We thoroughly inspect each of the Ingredients for quality and safety when it arrives at our facility. Our quality control team carries out multiple checks throughout the manufacturing process and our factory employees have the power to reject any Ingredient that does not meet our high standards.
To become a Purina® supplier, you must meet our strict quality criteria, initial assessments can take anywhere from 6 to 12 months to complete, or even longer, depending on the number of facilities inspected.
How does Purina® find a new supplier?
Identify
Identify suppliers where we can source quality Ingredients. We look for suppliers whose values align with ours even before we take a plant tour.
Audit
We audit the supplier's facilities. When a supplier has multiple facilities, we inspect and approve each location separately.
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We study Ingredients with regulatory, food safety, and toxicological reviews.
Test
We subject ingredients to rigorous testing before approval through our laboratories.
Monitoring
We carry out frequetn checks and evaluations established according to the specific ingredient supplied.
We consider several criteria when evaluating a new vendor
OUR SUPPLIERS MUST:
Fulfill
With local laws and regulations.
Practice
Ethical and responsible employment, including safety, health and work enviroment standars.
Have
Actions to promote responsible care for the enviroment.
Have
An overarching ethos that aligns with Purina's values.
Because ingredients make up the biggest percentage of our carbon footprint, Purina is committed to minimizing our overall environmental impact. That’s why we make responsible sourcing of our ingredients a top priority.
In fact, sustainability and the respect for the enviroment are our first considerations when choosing suppliers. In addition we provide them with the additional resources and expertise to further their sustainability efforts.
Much of the work we do is focused on sourcing quality rigredients and minimizing our environmental impact. However, we take our commitment a step further. Through varon public and phate partnerships, Purina and our partners are helping to enable water quality, soll protection and biodiversity projects with hundeds of farmers
The work is not only an investment to acquire quality ingredients in the future, but we also do it thinking about building a healthy environment for people. Our goal with these projects ts to positively impact the farmland where Purnna's ingredients are grown and also to help the entire ecosystem.
take a collaborative approach to sustainability and conservation, looking for projects and partnerships that improve farmland and have a huge positive impact on an entre region