The technology enables pasteurisation without radiation, which cannot be used in organic ingredient processing
Olam Food Ingredients (OFI), a global leader in natural and sustainable ingredients and solutions, has recently announced that its spices business is entering into a strategic partnership with Agri-Neo to provide the industry’s first organically pasteurised dried onions. The partnership combines OFI’s market leadership in dried onions and Agri-Neo’s pasteurisation technology, Neo-Pure.
As a certified-organic solution, the Neo-Pure Pasteurized (NPP) dried onions will support OFI’s global customers in delivering ingredients to the highest food safety and quality standards. The technology enables pasteurisation without radiation, which cannot be used in organic ingredient processing, and will enhance food safety in OFI’s organic and conventional dried onion ingredients.
The Agri-Neo partnership demonstrates OFI’s ongoing commitment to exceed customer expectations for safe and high-quality food ingredients.
Rob Wong, President of Agri-Neo, added, “The OFI-Agri-Neo partnership is a powerful combination. Neo-Pure has continued to set the pace as the market leader in food safety. It exceeds the rigorous ingredient industry efficacy standards by using a patented blend of organic actives in a dedicated food safety system to eliminate pathogens such as Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria. It is a non-thermal pasteurisation process that has been specifically developed to preserve food quality. We look forward to working with OFI’s spices platform to enhance food safety for more food ingredients with Neo-Pure.”
OFI will showcase the partnership with Agri-Neo to provide organically pasteurised dried onion products at the Fall American Spice Trades Association (ASTA) event in October 2021.
Neo-Pure is certified organic by the US National Organic Program (NOP) and the Canada Organic Regime (COR).
