H.B. Fuller (NYSE: FUL) has earned the Food Safety System Certification (FSSC 22000) for its Lüneburg, Germany, factory, which is the company's largest in Europe and an important manufacturing plant within its global network.
The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), a Coalition of Action from the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) that brings together many of the world's leading consumer goods companies to oversee food safety standards for businesses and to help ensure safe food for everyone, has established FSSC 22000 as a recognized industry standard for food packaging suppliers.
According to GFSI data, an estimated 600 million people become ill each year after eating contaminated food around the world, and the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened concerns about food hygiene.
H.B. Fuller manufactures and supplies adhesives for a variety of critical food and beverage goods, many of which were deemed necessary during the pandemic.
“In recent years, the Lüneburg site has undergone a journey of expansion and capability upgrades to better serve customers in core segments, namely packaging, converting, beverage labelling and hygiene, among other industries,” says Dietrich Crail, senior vice president, Europe and global Rigid Packaging of H.B. Fuller.
“Many of our developments and programs in the packaging and labelling markets are devoted to working closely with customers, suppliers and other key partners to improve food packaging safety across our operations and products, which makes third-party assessments, such as FSSC 22000, a key step toward demonstrating the safety and security of our adhesives inside consumer food and beverage packaging. It is our goal to leverage our learnings from this process to build a global network of GFSI-certified manufacturing facilities.”
The FSSC 22000 certificate was issued by an accredited third-party and certifies that H.B. Fuller food and beverage product lines in Lüneburg, such Advantra®, Advantra® BOLDTM, ClarityTM , Swift®Therm, Swift®Melt, and Lunatack®, fulfill the requirements of global industry food safe standards in accordance to GFSI.
