For the first time, two companies in Asia have been certified under the International Fishmeal and Fish Oil organization (IFFO) responsible supply (RS) chain of custody standard.
CP Foods of Thailand has been awarded the IFFO RS chain of custody certification and is currently sourcing IFFO RS approved products from the Southeast Asian Packaging & Canning factory — the first Asian factory to be audited and complaint against the RS standard — for its fishmeal and fish oil derived from tuna byproducts.
CP Foods and IFFO are also working with a number of interested parties in Thailand, India and Vietnam to improve the management of the fisheries so that in the future some of them can be used to source raw materials for further IFFO RS certified products.
Zhonghai Ocean Science & Technology Co. of China has also been awarded IFFO RS chain of custody certification, which covers the certified material that they are currently importing from South America and Europe. It uses these in the production of added-value marine ingredients, including purified protein products and concentrated EPA and DHA nutraceutical fish oils.
