Responsible Sourcing
Pallas Foods are committed to responsible sourcing in order to protect our resources and preserve the future of the food industry for the generations to come. We are also responding to the demand from the public to provide responsibly sourced products and to have an awareness of where the food they are eating comes from and the conditions in which it was produced. We are collaborating with our suppliers to respond to these demands from our customers and the consumers.
Environmental Sustainability
Pallas Foods are committed to sourcing responsibly from suppliers who respect our environment and work to conserve our natural resources. An example of this is Pallas Foods support for Responsible Irish Fish scheme, whereby seafood is sourced in a manner that sustain stocks of fish by employing measures to ensure smaller catch and reproducing females are released back into the wild. As part of this, Responsible Irish Fish members are committed to cleaning the seas by bringing ashore marine debris.
Pallas Foods and Sysco require that all packaging which is specially produced for the extensive range of Sysco brands uses a minimum of 35% post consumer recycled materials and we are continuously striving to improve on this.
Social Sustainability
Pallas Foods has worked with smaller rural producers throughout Ireland to develop their business, help to promote the Irish rural community and sustain jobs in the food industry. This policy of supporting artisan producers also ensures that the diversity of food products we enjoy will remain viable. In supporting the Responsible Irish Fish Scheme we are also supporting Irish fishing fleets and fish processors which in turn helps to sustain the fishing community.
Economic Sustainability
Pallas Foods works to develop a robust value chain and ensure it is an economically beneficial relationship for all our small business partners and suppliers. It is Pallas Foods policy to ensure that all prices paid to suppliers are fair while still being able to remain competitive to our customers. We assist suppliers with developing their production planning and pricing strategy, advise on marketing and promotions strategy and assist them in meeting the quality assurance requirements.
Animal Welfare
Humane animal welfare practices are central to Pallas Foods responsible sourcing policy. We are committed to ensuring suppliers go beyond the regulatory requirements and encourage our suppliers to be industry leaders in the area of animal welfare. We require slaughter and processing plants and production to adhere to best practices in raising and handling, access to feed and water, facility design, environmental conditions, employee training, transportation practices, animal handling practices at the harvest facility and, for specified programs, handling practices on the farm.
We also require our suppliers of shell eggs to be in compliance with the current animal welfare regulations in relation to egg production such as food safety, animal welfare, worker safety, the environment, comparing commercial cage systems and free range laying approaches.
