As part of Nutreco's sustainability programme, we have identified three focus areas on which we should concentrate our attention.

• Responsibility towards natural resources
• Feed-to-food quality
• Nutreco people and investing in the community

Responsibility towards natural resources

As a world leader in the development and production of high quality animal nutrition products, we believe we have a responsibility to take a lead in addressing the sustainability issues associated with our value chains. With respect to natural resources, this means giving attention to the sustainability of our raw materials and ensuring they are used efficiently. Additionally, it includes the environmental impact from the production and use of our products such as climate change and biodiversity impacts and social impacts such as employment conditions and competition for land. As Nutreco only has direct control over a limited section of the value chains, we believe it is also important to stimulate and participate in value-chain initiatives that address these issues at an industry level.

Feed-to-food quality

The taste, texture and nutritional value for humans of food products such as meat, fish, dairy products and eggs are directly influenced by the nutrition of the animal concerned. As a major animal nutrition company we therefore play an important role in the value chains that supply consumers with these forms of safe, tasty and nutritious food.

We have a unique feed-to-food quality strategy called Nutrace®, with five standards and protocols that can be applied across all Nutreco businesses. The standards are Certified Quality, Ingredient Assessment and Management, Monitoring, Risk Management and Tracking & Tracing. As Nutrace is a dynamic strategy, we continuously develop it in line with changing legislation and customer demands relating to the feed-to-food value chains and from our own expanding experience.

Nutreco people and investing in the community

Our Code of Ethical Conduct stipulates fairness in employment and we are continuously developing opportunities for performance management, training and development of careers within Nutreco. The health and safety of our employees has a high priority. Nutreco has a small, highly knowledgeable team permanently occupied in auditing and advising the operating companies on health and safety at work, together with environmental measures and quality issues.

Looking outside the company, Nutreco is active in engaging with local communities and with those further away, for example through charitable donations. The Nutreco Sustainability Policy provides official endorsement of these activities.