Food Safety

Since we formed our farmer-owned cooperative more than 20 years ago, we have striven to provide our customers with the most nutritious and best tasting organic food that is produced under the strictest food safety standards. That not only includes our Organic Valley dairy, eggs, soy and produce products, but also the ingredients we provide to foodservice businesses as well as other manufacturers who make baby food, yogurt and more. We take our responsibility to provide high quality products very seriously and know that safety and integrity in how we produce our food are essential to the optimum health of our consumers and the planet.

The farmer-owners of Organic Valley are very proud of their reputation for high quality products and have pioneered one of the strictest standards in the industry to ensure that high quality standards are upheld. They have a unique “premium and deduct program” in place which significantly rewards or penalizes based upon level of quality. To ensure their standards are met, they have a farmer-led Work Improvement Program Committee that peer reviews quality and has the privilege to suspend farm product pick-up, if necessary, until quality improvements are made. We have a comprehensive quality assurance program in place that monitors quality throughout our product’s lifecycle – from the farm to the plate. We have always made our protocols available for review to any customer, producer, distributor or retailer who asks for it. Click here for the summary and details of our Quality Assurance program.