As the Ballarat plant cooked up batch after batch of golden fries, the original Daylesford plant got a makeover to manufacture the latest product — pizzas. And we expanded our products from fries and pizzas to include farm-fresh vegetables. But there was more to come.
In the same year, McCain Dinner Classics burst onto the market, with a range of low calorie, fresh dinners that the whole family could enjoy. This allowed us to offer a substantial variety of frozen dinners, including Low Calorie, Heart Foundation Approved, and our Healthy Choice range.
New Zealand now joined the ranks of McCain fans around the world. We built a potato processing plant in Timaru, right next door to the existing vegetable plant. With freshness as their number one priority, New Zealand now had McCain produce from their very own farmland. Multi-million dollar upgrades to the original Ballarat French fry plant saw epic leaps in production volumes.
We tripled the size of our dinner manufacturing plant and installed a state of the art cold storage area in Ballarat. Career Opportunities Our products are only as good as the people who put them out there. See Available Opportunities. Good Business From the start, the McCain brothers had a simple belief: good ethics is good business. It's All About the Food Like you, our chefs make great-tasting, on-trend food their mission.
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Without it, potatoes would turn dark, just like an apple turns dark when you cut it and expose it to air. McCain Foods is famous for French fries and specialty potato products. For a minority of our other products, we purchase a small amount of ingredients from animal origin.
McCain Foods requires that its suppliers operate to high standards of animal welfare, providing animals with an environment free from stress, abuse and neglect. One example of this is in our North American supply chain in relation to the welfare of broiler chickens [ more information ]. The vast majority of soybean oil that McCain Foods uses is sourced from areas of the world where there is no impact on deforestation, such as the USA. This process is designed to deliver the taste, texture and convenience you have come to expect from McCain Foods.
McCain Foods is committed to providing its customers and consumers with food they can trust to be safe, nutritious and great tasting. As a result, we have been working to address the issue of acrylamide since it was first discovered in food in We have a worldwide technical team managing the issue and we have been working proactively with international regulators and researchers on an ongoing basis.
McCain Foods is committed to continuing efforts to reduce the formation of acrylamide in our products by monitoring the latest research and assessing applicability. We have made progress in reducing the formation of acrylamide by selecting the best potatoes, controlling storage and processing conditions, and providing clear instructions on all retail and foodservice packaging for optimal cooking times and temperatures.
Low levels of sugars are naturally present in potatoes. These levels vary throughout the year and from variety-to-variety which, in turn, impacts the consistency of colour in the final cooking process. Dextrose is therefore used, when required, during the blanching process to maintain colour consistency and to replace any natural sugars lost during cooking.
The vast majority of our frozen cold store estate is free from HFC refrigerants. The small percentage that isn't yet HFC-free will be moving to natural gas refrigerant at the time of upgrade or replacement going forward.
At McCain Foods this topic is very important to us. We have been focused on food waste reduction practices for many years, such as food landfill diversion via its re-use as animal feed, by-products, biogas, and organic fertilizer. As a result of the increasing levels of obesity and associated health risks, health consciousness has been on the rise among consumers.
Today's consumers want healthy alternatives without compromising quality and taste. McCain Foods is responding to our consumers and customers with an expanded range of Better For You product choices that are lower in fat, sugar and sodium. Click here for a list of our regional websites for information about products sold in your country.
In , we displayed leadership in North America by introducing French fries prepared in non-hydrogenated oils in order to lower the levels of trans-fatty acids.
Similar initiatives are underway at other company operations around the world. At the same time, McCain Foods is working closely with its customers to develop new product options for quick-service restaurants. Moderation in how much one eats and drinks, getting regular exercise and enough sleep, as well as reducing stress are all elements of managing one's health. We believe that all McCain Foods products can be part of a nutritionally balanced diet and a healthy, active lifestyle.
Ultimately, it is the consumer who chooses what food they eat, how often and how much. As a responsible manufacturer of food products, McCain Foods believes it should provide both a wide variety of product choices and the information consumers need to make their purchase decisions. A major source of IP-TFAs come from vegetable oils which have been partially hydrogenated to enhance stability and shelf life. Over the past decade, McCain Foods has eliminated the use of partially hydrogenated vegetable oils from the cooking procedures of our product portfolio globally.
We have achieved this by moving to low saturated fat cooking oils such as canola and sunflower. In conducting its operations, McCain Foods takes the welfare of its employees very seriously and does not tolerate or condone any activity or practice constituting slavery, forced labor or human trafficking.
McCain Foods has employee policies and procedures in place, including McCain's Code of Conduct and policies and procedures with respect to the hiring of employees, to ensure that slavery, forced labor or human trafficking is not occurring in McCain Foods' hiring process or employment relationships. With respect to suppliers of goods and services to McCain Foods, McCain Foods has adopted a Supplier Code of Conduct which addresses respect for human rights, prohibitions relating to compulsory labor, human trafficking, child labor, inhumane treatment, abuse, harassment and non-discrimination, and other requirements.
McCain Foods supports the Consumer Goods Forum call to action for business leaders to join forces to call for the end to forced labour and unethical recruitment in the fight against forced labour, in collaboration with governments, United Nations agencies and civil society organizations: CGF Call To Action. McCain Foods does not fund, conduct, or commission any tests on animals unless they are explicitly required by law. McCain Foods does not create advertising, advergaming, promotional initiatives or any other communications targeted directly to children under the age of
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