As Bunge delivers farmers’ 2025/26 season grain to markets around the world, quality and food safety underpin all aspects of its operations.
After receiving grain at its sites during harvest, the company moves the commodities to international and domestic markets via road, rail and vessel.
Throughout these tasks, Bunge plays an important role in protecting the health and wellbeing of consumers by upholding strict food and feed safety standards.
Quality and food safety is a foundational pillar of how Bunge operates. It leverages the comprehensive quality and food safety management processes which are integrated into all of its activities to ensure grain meets customers’ expectations, as well as the varied requirements of importing and exporting authorities.
Bunge’s supply chain meets the highest international standards of food safety and quality management, and it holds a number of accreditations and certifications which recognise this.
Before export, grain is tested for quality a minimum of four times as it moves through Bunge’s network. This is supported by the company’s purpose-built laboratory, which conducts comprehensive grain classification, end user quality testing, DNA testing for genetically modified material and chemical residue testing.
These rigorous processes enable Bunge to deliver safe, high‑quality products to customers worldwide.
Bunge also works closely with farmers to uphold food safety and quality requirements for grain delivered after harvest.
All postharvest deliveries follow Bunge’s postharvest procedure, which includes providing a postharvest delivery declaration for each load.
Bunge continues to conduct testing on grain delivered postharvest in line with its food safety and quality management processes. This includes classifying all loads on delivery, conducting falling number testing on wheat and malt barley to ensure the quality has not deteriorated in storage, and postdelivery chemical residue testing.
By maintaining world-class standards throughout its supply chain, Bunge is able to meet the requirements of its end use customers and ensure ongoing market access for farmers’ grain.