Consumers love the convenience and safety of packaged food products. At the same time, they’re concerned about the environment and want to reduce waste wherever possible.

With the SQF certification, the company looks to expand its sales opportunities in the retail and B2B ingredient channels.

The leading flour supplier discovered how consumers interact with raw flour, explored their understanding of safe handling and consuming and uncovered potential risky behaviors.

The online training includes 24 modules covering a wide variety of topics, from personnel practices, sanitation, and allergens to quality control, customer complaints, food defense, and self-inspection and internal audits.

On Monday June 27, the global chocolate manufacturer detected a salmonella positive production lot from a facility in Wieze, Belgium, but confirmed no salmonella positive chocolate entered retail food chain.

The new standards will be unveiled on July 25.