‘GMP+ goes along with our vision to create a secure, high-quality product’

Name: Sigrid Pauwelyn
Company: Trotec NV
Location: Veurne, Belgium
Certified since: 1999
Certified for: GMP+ FSA (B1 and B4) and GMP+FRA MI105 GMO-controlled

“For over fifty years, Trotec has been processing by-products of industrial food companies, coming from biscuits, bread, chocolate, pasta, and other foods, into valuable, safe and sustainable raw materials for the compound feed industry”, says Sigrid Pauwelyn. “This enables feed companies to replace other raw materials, such as wheat, corn, barley and even sugar and palm oil. By making feed out of food, we succeed in keeping food not suitable for human consumption within the food chain.”

“As a company we are focused on sustainability, food safety and a high-quality end product. Therefore, all of our by-products are processed in-house and go through strict quality controls. We were one of the first companies to become certified for the GMP+ Feed Certification scheme, because we wanted to show the world how important feed safety is to Trotec. Also, we noticed that our customers increasingly started requiring GMP+ FSA certification.”

“Both of our plants are certified for GMP+ FSA. Being certified helps us in multiple ways. In fact, the standards of the scheme are an insurance with regard to feed safety. Also, our newest certification – GMP+FRA MI105 GMO-controlled – gives us the chance to bring our end product on the international market. And in order to correctly obtain the necessary information, we use GMP+ International’s database for evaluating risk analysis and HACCP plans.”

“Because we benefit in so many ways, we will definitely continue our collaboration with GMP+ International for years to come.”