The Management of Mar Barroso establishes, declares, and assumes a permanent commitment to product quality, food safety, and authenticity, with a full focus on satisfying our customers’ needs. We guarantee high-quality products at all times that meet the specifications and objectives of our organization as well as the needs and expectations of our customers, under favorable hygienic-sanitary conditions and in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

The core philosophy lies in maintaining a food safety culture by instilling shared values, beliefs, and norms that influence the mindset and behavior toward food safety across and throughout the entire Mar Barroso organization.

Therefore, for Mar Barroso, the principles of its commitments reside in:

• The orientation toward the production of safe and legal products in accordance with specified quality standards.
• Efficiency and excellence in internal management through the development and implementation of food safety management systems that include legal, technical, quality, and food safety aspects, as well as a commitment to sustainability.
• The system is based on corporate guidelines and strategies, including continuous improvement in the management and performance of our food safety management system as a driving element, thereby nurturing our food safety culture.
• Requirements of rigor, impartiality, confidentiality, and truthfulness in all facets of professional activity, supported by independence and corporate values.
• Priority given to a preventive approach and risk assessment in process development to guarantee food safety, as opposed to a correction-based approach.
• Leadership and commitment to the human team, promoting teamwork and the participation of individuals at all levels of the organization. This aims to create an attractive company with a sense of pride in belonging, providing an environment where people can develop their professional potential in balance with their personal lives.
• Promotion of and support for social initiatives that involve an improvement in living conditions and cultural development.
• Collaboration with customers and suppliers, creating relationships based on trust, loyalty, transparency, and mutual respect, while adopting organizational processes and structures aimed at facilitating the relationship and the fulfillment of their expectations.
• Adoption of measures to reduce environmental damage resulting from our own activities and those of suppliers and contractors.
• Communication of our achievements and future plans in a truthful and transparent manner.
• Compliance with current legislation in all aspects relating to food safety.
• All Mar Barroso employees are responsible for the quality of their work.
• Provision of up-to-date technical means, with special support for the use of new technologies as tools for change and continuous improvement.
• Promotion of innovation, including research and development activities, and encouraging collaboration and knowledge exchange with other entities on projects of mutual interest.

The Management of Mar Barroso undertakes to provide the material and human resources to train and sensitize the organization’s teams regarding the company’s Food Safety Management System Policy. Furthermore, it will ensure this Policy is transmitted and enforced at all levels of the organization and made available to all stakeholders as appropriate.