Quality

Always the best – now and for generations.

Leading the field
Grimmway Farms isn't just another company. And we're not just the world's largest grower/packer/shippers of fresh and processed carrots. We're also a leading supplier of organic produce, organic carrots, carrot juice concentrate, fresh citrus, and potatoes.

Striving to be the best
Being an industry pioneer has its advantages – like being able to grow, process and supply premium quality carrots year round. Grimmway passes that benefit along to our customers – which adds up to the best quality at competitive prices, higher sales volume, and increased customer profits!

Highest safety standards
Our facilities in Southern California include a baby carrot processing facility, a facility for organic vegetables, including organic carrots, and a state of the art carrot juice facility. We maintain every square inch within Grimmway's strict food safety and quality control standards. We've earned the right to place the USDA's Quality Through Verification shield on our packaging after passing a rigorous program.

Always on the cutting edge
Grimmway Farms remains committed to marketing products with maximum impact, with major achievements in developing new products and packages.

Motivated by a mission
Every success and achievement of Grimmway Farms – from our long history and record quality to outstanding service and unsurpassed quality and safety standards – reflects our commitment to provide good value and honest pricing, and to conduct business with integrity.

Food Safety
We know it is important for you and your family to be confident in the safety of the produce you serve and consume, and our safety standards are among the highest in the industry.

Grimmway Farms

Awarded Shield #002 for participation and acceptance in the USDA Qualified Through Verification (QTV) program.
Achieved compliance with the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) by obtaining SQF 2000 Level 2 certification.
All carrot processing is performed in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practices under a validated and monitored HACCP program with full traceability.
All carrot growing and harvesting is performed in accordance with Good Agricultural Practices which is validated annually by a third party.

Cal-Organic

Achieved compliance with the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) by obtaining SQF 2000 Level 2 certification.
All vegetable processing is performed in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practices under a validated and monitored HACCP program with full traceability.
All vegetable growing and harvesting is performed in accordance with Good Agricultural Practices which is validated by the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
Certified member of the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement.

Kosher
"Kosher", in Hebrew, means fit or proper, and is generally used to describe foods that are prepared in accordance with special Jewish dietary laws. All fruits and vegetables are considered kosher and may be eaten freely with either dairy or meat. When produce is harvested, however, some non-kosher elements could conceivably be harvested with the produce. The kosher consumer is careful to eliminate any of these unwelcome elements.

Grimmway Farms has received kosher certification from the Orthodox Union (OU) in New York. All of our processed carrots to including: baby carrots, carrot sticks, shredded carrots, and carrot chips are kosher certified. The OU kosher supervision label is the world's most recognized kosher symbol and can be found on nearly 250,000 products in 68 countries around the globe.

The Orthodox Union inspects our facilities regularly and kosher monitoring systems are set up and monitored by our Quality Assurance Division. For more information about the Orthodox Union, visit their website at http://www.ou.org.

Organic standards

Certified Organic
CCOF Certification
The standards for organic certification are based on the U.S.Organic Foods Production Act of 1990. The new USDA National Organic Standards will go into effect October 21, 2002.

Organic Farms Standards for Certification:

Adherence to the California Organic Foods Act which prohibits the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, or fumigants on soil or produce
Requires accurate and specific record keeping
Keep detailed records of all materials used
A long- term program of ecological soil management
Conventionally farmed land must go through a three-year transition period before being certified organic
Annual certification inspections by CCOF enforce these strict guidelines Grimmway Farm's fields and packing plants are certified by California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF)

USDA National Organic Standards
Organic production has been practiced in the United States since the late 1940s. From that time, the industry has grown from experimental garden plots to farms with surplus products to sell under a special "organic" label. Food manufacturers have developed organic processed products, and many retail marketing chains specialize in the sale of "organic" products. This growth stimulated a need for verification that products are indeed produced according to certain standards. Thus, the organic certification industry also evolved. By the late 1980's, after an attempt to develop a consensus of production and certification standards, the organic industry petitioned Congress to draft the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) defining "organic".

Congress passed the Act to: (1) establish national standards governing the marketing of certain agricultural products as organically produced products; (2) assure consumers that organically produced products meet a consistent standard; and (3) facilitate commerce in fresh and processed food that is organically produced.