SUSTAINABILITY Cookers blue trucks pick up used oil so it can be repurposed.
Tracing every last drop of cooking oil Traceability and sustainability are key to Cookers Bulk Oil’s success. Food & Beverage Industry News explains why.
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il – in all its forms, including vegetable – doesn’t have the best of reputations when it comes to sustainability and the environment. It takes a long time to break down, can have a disruptive impact on habitats, and can take on toxic forms once used. With tens of thousands of eating establishments throughout Australia – all of which use one form or another of cooking oil – it is an issue that bulk oil specialist Cookers Bulk Oil knows all too well. When it comes to sustainability, traceability and how vegetable oil can affect its surrounds, the company has processes in place aimed at keeping the environment free from any negative outcomes caused by vegetable oils. National quality and safety manager for the company Hari Srinivas makes no apologies
for the standards the company sets when it comes to where it sources its vegetable oil supplies. “To deal with Cookers, you need to be an approved supplier, which means we look and see what sort of practices and standards you are following,” he said. “Suppliers need to meet minimum standards. And it means we don’t go to any supplier who hasn’t got a certification/traceability system in place that is not internationally recognised.” He cites the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), which is a private organisation, established and managed by the Consumer Goods Forum in Belgium. It maintains a scheme to benchmark food safety standards for manufacturers. Certification can be achieved through a successful third-party audit
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Cookers Bulk Oil sticks to stringent high standards with all its oils.