The Aller Aqua organisation reached a historical milestone when months of hard work culminated in the verification of CO2-labelling of fish feed at its European factories. The verification process was conducted by Bureau Veritas.
This is a huge milestone for Aller Aqua to be the first company to be able to label their entire product portfolio by the recognised PEFCR (Product Environment Footprint Category Rules) principles Feed for food-producing animals.
Each of the raw materials used have been through the process with the necessary data to label these products.
This means that Aller Aqua can offer customers a full carbon footprint declaration on each type of feed. This is a big step towards carbon footprint declaration of fish produced by our customers, and all the way to the consumer. Aquaculture is already one of the most environmentally friendly ways of producing protein compared to other types of animal farming.
It added that it wished to create full transparency for customers, and particularly to contribute to reducing CO2-emissions. This project checks all those boxes. It has also taken other measures such as replacing South American soya with regionally produced soya in our European factories.
The practicalities regarding the declaration can therefore start. Initially it included three European factories, but shortly plan to include the rest of its 7 factories in the process.
