SẬO PAULO – The ASR Group has invested in Raízen, which has a traceable and 100% non-GMO sugarcane provide chain, and entered right into a 10-year buy settlement with the Brazil-based exporter. FoodChain ID independently licensed provide chain traceability.
The partnership between the 2 corporations extends from Raízen’s sugarcane plantations and bioenergy parks in southern Brazil to ASR’s refineries in Canada, the UK, Portugal and Italy to ASR’s sugar manufacturers similar to Domino and C&H offered to shoppers in North America and Europe.
Brazil permits transgenic sugar cane. No GM sugar cane is grown in the US. The Non-GMO Undertaking, Bellingham, Washington, lists sugarcane as a monitored threat enter, that means a GMO model exists however is just not broadly commercially out there. Greater than 90% of sugar beets grown within the US are GMO.
“This partnership between ASR Group and Raízen represents a significant and important funding by each of us in our commitments to be essentially the most sustainable sugar corporations on the planet,” stated Alan Wooden, senior vice chairman of world sugars for ASR, West Palm Seaside, Fla. “We’re paying a premium for this sugar and we’re excited that Raízen will reinvest it in much more sustainability initiatives.”
Paulo Neves, Vice President of Commerce at Raízen, stated: “By segregating our operation, this initiative permits us to measure the full impression and footprint discount in our provide chain extra precisely. This certification permits us to substantiate, by means of a third-party audit, the absence of GM sugar cane all through our course of, growing the worth of the product for patrons searching for the sort of sugar.”
