Sustainability Report 2019

Viterra Australia continues to invest in its food safety and quality Viterra Australia has invested in new chemical residue testing equipment as part of our focus on meeting end use customer demands and maintaining food safety and quality management standards. The investment is in response to changing customer needs and importing countries’ requirements. Countries are tightening their maximum residue limits and end use customers are becoming increasingly concerned with food safety and quality management standards. The equipment has been installed in Viterra’s purpose-built laboratory which was opened in 2018 and is enabling the business to continue to meet grower and end use customers’ needs well into the future. Viterra previously outsourced chemical residue testing to an external laboratory, which could take up to ten working days. The efficiency of being able to do this in our own laboratory, means we save valuable time during peak season, when the business is bringing in grain and needs to outturn it quickly while maintaining standards. HACCP educational programme As an active member of the Ukrainian Grain Association, Glencore Agriculture Ukraine took part in a programme of educational workshops to increase awareness of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) programme introduced by the Ukrainian government as it adapts its food safety system to European norms. The new system requires all food producers to identify any and all potential risks associated with their production processes and facilities and take the necessary steps to minimise these risks. The programme aimed to increase awareness of the HACCP, the potential threats to food and feed commodities and what the new system requires food businesses to do and when, as well as showing the competitive advantage that they would achieve by complying. Producers are now able to develop their own systems for improving food safety, and are in the process of doing so. Glencore Agriculture Sustainability Report 2019 25