Supplying
High Quality Safe
and Reliable Products

Acquisition of External Certifications for Environmentally and Socially Friendly Aquaculture

Background

Without environmentally and socially friendly aquaculture, it would be impossible to supply seafood in a sustainable manner. ASC certification is one international certification regime for this purpose.

ASC certification is an international certification regime administered by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) for the aquaculture business that authenticates fish farms that operate with due consideration for local communities and do not have any added impact on the surrounding environment. ASC certification contains seven core principles.

  1. 1. Legal compliance with national and local laws and regulations
  2. 2. Preservation of natural habitats, local biodiversity and ecosystem
  3. 3. Preservation of the diversity of the wild population
  4. 4. Preservation of water resources and quality
  5. 5. Responsible use of feed and other resources
  6. 6. Improved fish health and controlled and responsible use of antibiotics and chemicals
  7. 7. Farms to be socially responsible toward their workers and the local community.

High Quality Supply System: Ongoing Research of Aquaculture Feed

Our Approach

Feed has a major impact on the speed of growth and quality of farmed fish, and overall aquaculture costs. Therefore, improvements in feed directly lead to better efficiency and quality.

By improving feed together with feed companies, we aim to contribute to not only the development of our group and feed companies but also the entire aquaculture industry.

Our Initiatives

Feed companies are working daily to improve feed from various angles. This includes developing feed that more efficiently fattens fish, feed for automatic feeding systems, feed suited for Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) farms, feed that reduces the mortality rate, and feed that helps to cut back on the use of fish meal.

We provide data obtained from its aquaculture business and requests to feed companies.

Pursuing Safety and Reliability

Our Approach

As a food company, we believe product safety comes above all else so that customers can choose our products with peace of mind. Since our founding, we have always manufactured products with the utmost attention given to food safety and reliability. At the group’s overseas subsidiaries, Japanese expatriate managers work closely with locally hired staff to reproduce the same level of quality as in Japan.

Policy

Policy on Food Safety

  1. 1. We provide high-value-added products and services tailored to customer needs only after confirming their safety.
  2. 2. We comply with laws and regulations.
  3. 3. We have built a food safety management system and regularly review this system to make improvements for its stable operation.
  4. 4. We inform the group about our food safety management system and make it known to all through communication with the food chain.
  5. 5. We continuously work to increase awareness and knowledge of food safety.
  6. 6. We systematically provide training to inform all employees about this policy on food safety.

May 2022

There are Aomori Plant, Myanmar Plant (Okamura Trading Myanmar) and our processing outsourcing partner (in Vietnam as our manufacturing facilities). Our overseas locations implement the same management, approach to improvement, and careful attention to detail in their work as we do in Japan, delivering “Made in Japan ” quality based on our many years of experience in Japanese-style manufacturing.

Click here to learn more about our safety and security initiatives.

The group’s Main Initiatives

Quality Certifications

We actively acquire and maintain various quality certifications, through which we ensure safety and reliability.

Main Certifications

Okamura Foods Co., Ltd. (Aomori Head Office)

  • ・ASC CoC
  • ・MSC CoC
  • ・FDA facility registration
  • ・US/HACCP
  • ・HALAL
  • ・ISO 22000:2018

Japan Salmon Farm Inc.

  • ・Certificate of export seafood handling facility for EU
  • ・ASC farm certification
  • ・ASC CoC

Musholm A/S

  • ・ASC farm certification
  • ・ASC CoC
  • ・MSC CoC

Okamura Foods Co., Ltd. (Tokyo Head Office)

  • ・ASC CoC
  • ・MSC CoC

Okamura Trading Myanmar

  • ・ASC CoC
  • ・HACCP
  • ・ISO 22000:2018