Verified mint for Symrise from cooperation partner Norwest Ingredients

Symrise can now offer its customers products with mint verified at Gold level of SAI Platform’s Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA) thanks to the close cooperation between Symrise and Norwest Ingredients and the mint farmers who supply them.

Currently, verified mint accounts for one-third of supplied volume from Norwest Ingredients, the company said. Together with Norwest Ingredients and other partners, Symrise intends to expand this further and to systematically advance its sustainability approach along the entire supply chain.

Norwest Ingredients and the network of farmers successfully passed a comprehensive review process to obtain the mint verification. In line with the Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA) criteria, the farms work with proven sustainable practices in multiple areas, from water and energy management to soil health, biodiversity and working conditions.

The verification of US peppermint and spearmint represents another milestone for the ambitious sustainability objectives of Symrise. By 2025, the Holzminden-based Group wants to obtain 100% of its strategic biological raw materials from sustainable sources.

“Together with Norwest Ingredients, we feel delighted about the verification of the peppermint and spearmint supply chain,” says Mark Birch, sustainability director business transformation Group at Symrise. “At Symrise, we continuously work together with our regional partners to optimise our supply chains in a sustainable way. For us, sustainable commitment means demonstrating continuous improvement. This mint verification provides a further example that we are moving on the right path. Partnering with established initiatives like SAI Platform helps us continually improve ourselves.”

SAI platform is an initiative, founded in 2002, comprising around 150 members around the world. Independent auditing bodies work with farmers to validate their compliance to the socio-environmental standards of the FSA. To renew their verification they undergo this procedure every three years using comprehensive evaluation criteria.

With verified mint, producers give a robust response to fulfil the growing requirements of consumers and make their ingredients more sustainable.