SAFE CASHEW
FOOD SAFETY
Food Safety and Supply Chain Transparency are of prime importance at Alphonsa, enabling you to be confident the cashew your customers buy are safe and traceable.
Food safety is at the centre of everything we do at Alphonsa, and it’s fundamental to our journey and our customer’s brand. We genuinely believe everybody deserves the right for their food to be safe and our aim is to secure your trust by delivering assured quality every single time – through stringent food safety processes and superior microbiological and chemical specifications of our cashew nuts.
Our Customers expect us to provide safe products of the highest quality and we are truly committed to upholding that expectation our customers have been having on us for over 60 years.
Products of the highest quality
We help people live better by providing superior quality and healthy cashew nuts. It is critical that our products be of the highest quality. We hold highest standard of care in procurement, processing storage, transportation and distribution of our products.
Marketing of our products
We are committed to informative and accurate product packaging and labeling, at all times in compliance with applicable law. Because we stand by our products, we demand ourselves to be truthful when selling, advertising or otherwise engaged in communication about our products.
Presence across value chain
Our profound presence across the cashew value chain enables us to produce cashews that are safe and healthy. From procurement at farm-gate level to complete in-house production allows full case-level traceability of our cashew nuts.
Good Manufacturing Practices
We are committed to the Good Manufacturing Practices regulations, including practices related to control procedures used in processing, packaging and storage, all of which further ensures the quality of the products we bring to market and the protection of our customers.
Cashew Grades
Cashew Nuts are an exceptionally versatile, and a great value-adding ingredient avowable in different forms, as wholes and pieces. The selection of a particular cashew grade can vary the sensory properties and application potential of the finished product.
Ensuring food safety through a transparent supply chain.
A transparent and fully compliant supply chain will help our customers meet their regulatory and ethical commitments.
End-to-End Traceability
Our ownership or active presence in every stage of the cashew value chain enables us to develop transparent sourcing networks with full case-level traceability to the raw cashew source.
Advanced Certifications
We are committed to certifying our business operations and sustainability efforts with rigorous and world-class certifications across various categories.
Labelling and Legislations
Ensuring the highest food safety standards through accurate and factual labelling and complying with international legislations and regulations.
Learn how our Farmer Management System prevents any banned or harmful pesticide from getting into the food chain.
A revolutionary step towards developing fully transparent and traceable sourcing networks.
Farmer Management System (FMS) is a cloud application that comes under the sphere of our Procurement Management System, a powerful gamut of applications that is the prime enabler of our Direct Procurement Program giving us and our customers complete visibility over the supply chain. FMS has been built in-house using a comprehensive framework that includes metrics from Sustainability and Responsibility parameters including Food Safety, Social, Environment, Labour, Human Rights and Economic indicators. The system draws insights from our extensive years of experience on the ground in six origins spread across West and East Africa.
FMS will give complete visibility on the fertilisers and pesticides used by our farmer suppliers. Pesticides are widely used in producing cashew to control pests such as insects, rodents, weeds, bacteria, mold and fungus. However, it is important to prevent usage of all banned and harmful pesticide by farmers on their cashew farms to safeguard the health of our customers and their loved ones. Data gathered by FMS will detect and prevent any banned or harmful pesticide from getting into the food chain.
COVID-19 Response
We want to assure our consumers that cashew nuts are safe to enjoy in line with World Health Organisation (WHO), Food and Drug Administration, USA (FDA) and European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) guidelines that there isn’t any food safety risk relating to food transmission of the coronavirus.
