Food quality and safety

To bring communities everywhere favorite foods to love under the highest quality and safety standards, is a top priority.

The highest standards Training and continuous improvement

Our plants have obtained local and international certifications verifying their performance. Our 2025 goal is for 100% of our plants to adhere to the highest operational standards through certifications endorsed by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), the most recognized safety accreditation.

Our Food Safety Policy aligns to standards recognized by GFSI and includes a Hazards Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) system. At yearend 2020, we have 60 GFSI-certified plants, an 87% progress towards achieving our goal.

Likewise, we employ our Global Quality Control Manual to ensure that the strictest quality criteria is applied in all our processes across the value chain. Through our Quality Policy, we include additional elements in our management such as client service procedures

60 operation facilities

with GFSI certification, including 3 plants that were certified in 2020. Sigma collaborates with organizations that specialize in the development of the most advanced food safety processes and technologies. For example, we collaborate with the European Hygienic Engineering Design Group (EHEDG), participating in trainings, conferences, and forums designed to strengthen food technologies. We are currently collaborating with EHEDG to draft a new global benchmark standard focused on strengthening food safety practices during meat processing.

2025 goal

100%

of plants acquired by 2018, with a certification endorsed by GFSI.

2020 Progress

87%

of plants already comply with the goal of being GFSI-certified. In 2020 alone, 3 plants were included.

About GFSI

Dating back 20 years, GFSI has become the leading and most recognized global movement promoting food safety and the safe supply of food. GFSI is a multi-sectoral collaborative effort that gathers the world’s top experts in food safety from companies that market, produce, or are food service providers, as well as input suppliers, international organizations, governments, academia, and firms that provide services to the food industry.

Leader in our industry

We promote competitiveness in our industry to benefit consumers through organizations and certifications such as GFSI in Mexico, which is in charge of promoting food safety measures in the country in collaboration with the National Agri-food, Sanitation, Safety, and Quality Service (Servicio Nacional de Sanidad, Inocuidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria, SENASICA). In addition, Sigma contributed to the integration of GFSI criteria in Mexican regulations under a collaboration model that was later replicated in other countries.