KANSAS CITY, Mo. Farmland Foods continues to set the standard for natural
products, by becoming the very first pork company to receive the United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA) designation Never Ever 3 for the SIMPLY
NATURAL line of fresh pork products.
As consumers have become more interested in better for you and all natural
products, there’s been some marketplace confusion over what exactly constitutes
a natural product. To help clarify the issues, the USDA has developed the
Never Ever 3 (NE3) standard, which ensures:
1. No Antibiotics – NEVER EVER. No antibiotics in feed, water, or by injection
from birth to slaughter.
2. No Growth Promotants – NEVER EVER. No natural or synthetic hormones,
estrus suppressants, beta agonists, or synthetic growth promotants can be
administered at all.
3. No Animal By-Products – NEVER EVER. No mammalian and avian by-products are
ever allowed in the feed.
We’re extraordinarily pleased to be the first pork company to receive this
designation, said Chris Hodges, Farmland Senior Vice President, Fresh Pork.
Our SIMPLY NATURAL line of fresh pork is a great choice for consumers looking
for a natural, delicious protein, and this USDA NE3 certification gives them
confidence that the product has been held to the very highest standards, and
that the process has been rigorously documented, all along the way. It’s an
honor to be the first to bring NE3 certified products to the marketplace, and
we’ll continue to provide our customers with the very best from America’s
farms.
NE3 is a USDA Process Verified Program that uses the International Organization
for Standardization’s ISO 9000 series standards for documented quality
management systems as a format for evaluating program documentation to ensure
consistent auditing practices and promoting international recognition of audit
results. Farmland meticulously documents every step in the process, and works
with the USDA to ensure the quality management systems are verified and
monitored to the exacting standards set forth as part of NE3.
Farmland’s SIMPLY NATURAL line offers a wide variety of delicious, high quality
cuts, including back ribs, boneless tenderloins, boneless sirloins, bone-in and
boneless loins, and butts.
Visit www.farmlandfoods.com for more details about Farmland SIMPLY NATURAL and
other items from Farmland Foods.
Since 1959, Farmland has maintained a proud heritage of working side-by-side
with American Farm Families, using time-honored traditions to make great-tasting
food that you can proudly serve your customers. It’s how we’ve always done it,
and how we’ll be doing it for generations to come. Farmland. Good Food from the
Heartland.
Source: Farmland Foods