April 20, 2021
 

HKScan's Danish team and its ROSE chicken brand are taking the next important step in its journey towards using 100% responsible soy, the Finnish meat producer announced on April 14.

HKScan said it is strongly committed to promoting responsibility in its supply chain. Last summer, the company joined the Danish Alliance for Responsible Soy and updated its roadmap to ensure all soy used in HKScan's poultry feed in Denmark is responsibly sourced by 2025.

HKScan will increase the share of responsibly sourced soy in line with the following schedule: in 2021, 30% of the soy used in its poultry feed will be responsibly sourced. The share will progressively increase to 40% in 2022, 60% in 2023, 80% in 2024 and 100% by 2025.

"We define responsible soy as soy from programmes and schemes that are positively benchmarked against the European Feed Manufacturers' Federation's (FEFAC) Soy Sourcing Guidelines," said Brian Møller Lauridsen, animal sourcing director of HKScan Denmark. "All soy used in our chain in 2025 will be physically traceable, fulfilling these stringent criteria."

HKScan's Danish team has also signed an agreement with DAKOFO, an industry association for the grain and feed trade in Denmark and a member of FEFAC.

"According to the agreement, DAKOFO will ensure that the mass balance for the content of responsible soy used by HKScan's contract farmers follows our schedule of transferring to 100% responsible soy by 2025," Lauridsen said. "Our farmers can safely continue buying feed from their preferred suppliers, who comply with the agreement."

The purchase of sufficient quantities of responsibly sourced soy is controlled by the feed companies, who will submit an annual auditor's statement concerning the purchased soy.

"It's important for us to create permanent, more sustainable operating models. With responsibly produced soy, we participate in mitigating deforestation and forest degradation in vulnerable areas," Lauridsen said.

- HKScan