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SWISS HEALTH & NUTRITION
MISSION MAGAZINE
Real-life
sustainability.
The human aspect
Food is our sustenance. Health is our guiding principle, for
what we eat and drink influences our well-being and our
quality of life.
This is why we inform you about the ingredients we
use, about our production, and our challenges. We work
sustainably throughout the entire value chain. For us, this
includes paying the people in our supply chain fair prices
and wages and enabling flexible work models.
The social aspect
We value the work of every single person involved in our
company. Our attractive wooden clips, manufactured by
the people at Stiftung Rüttihubelbad, are an example of
value creation as a collective, integrative effort.
Animal welfare
High-quality ingredients of animal origin can only come
from healthy animals from animal-friendly farming. We
actively advocate for organic livestock farming, which
ensures that animal have access to pastures and to locally
sourced animal feed. In order to permanently change the
well-being of the animals for the better, ingredients must
be traceable to their origins, e.g. to the respective farm.
The willingness to pay a higher price for ingredients is a
prerequisite for animals being able to lead a decent life.
The raw materials
Our products are Swiss made. They meet the criteria
of the Swiss Federal Swissness legislation, which includes
the production in Switzerland (made in Switzerland).
This has several benefits:
• Ingredients can be traced easily and reliably.
• The purity of the raw materials is ensured,
eliminating the risk of inadvertent doping.
• The transportation routes are shorter.
• We acquire valuable ingredients from other countries
if they do not exist in Switzerland.
• If we acquire an ingredient from another country,
we try to compensate for the difference in origin with
our logistics strategy.
The environment
Our products are well-conceived down to their sustainable
and neat packaging. It is enormously challenging to
package food both with regard to food safety as well as in
an environmentally friendly way. This is why we designed
our sustainability process, which is committed to further
development:
RRC = REUSE, RECYCLE, COMPOST
All our packaging is home compostable or reusable
prior to recycling.
The following are home compostable:
• Our food-safe stand-up and refill bags
• Our drinking bottles
• Our tissue paper
The following are reusable and then recyclable:
• Our Miron glass jars
• Our tin cans
• Our FSC-certified cartons – made of wood
from responsible forestry, and partly made of
recycled wood pulp.
We are strongly involved in the innovation and
manufacturing of new packaging materials for food.
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