Kreider Farms Earns Influential Safe Quality Food (SQF) Certification

MANHEIM, Penn. – Kreider Farms announces that it is one of the first egg producers in the United States to earn the Safe Quality Food (SQF) certification, the food industry's newly adopted food processing safety standard.

Owned and controlled by the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), the rigorous SQF certification is a globally recognized food safety and quality certification program. FMI has specified SQF as the universal standard for food processing quality and safety. To achieve its Level 2 certification, Kreider Farms implemented time and cost-intensive upgrades to its processes, including an extensive third-party audit, employee food safety training, and investment in company uniforms for its processing employees.

"We are very proud to be one of the first SQF-certified egg farms in the country and the first east of the Mississippi," said Ron Kreider, president and CEO, and the third-generation family leader of Kreider Farms. "The certification took about a year and our team worked very hard to make this happen. SQF reinforces our dedication to product quality and food safety."

Developed over the last decade, SQF has already been implemented by over 5000 companies in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and South America. The certification provides independent and external validation that a product, process or service meets specific standards and enables a supplier to assure that a food has been produced, prepared and handled according to the highest possible standards. With SQF as the industry's new benchmark, U.S. food suppliers are taking the lengthily steps necessary to earn and maintain SQF certification.