Presentation used during the short course on food safety & liability training

1. Food Safety and
Liability
Insurance
Requirements for
Sodexo
October 16, 2010

2.  All produce farmers work through Sodexo
approved vendors/distributors
• All produce farmers refers to: small, local, regional, and
large size farms
Requirements of farms seeking to sell to
Sodexo

3.  Audited and/or certified annually by a Sodexo approved
3rd party audit firm.
 Provides oversight of the farms to ensure that Good
Agricultural Practices (GAP’s).
 Provide general liability insurance (naming Sodexo as
additional insured) in the amount $5M per occurrence.
 Maintain effective product trace-back and recall
procedures.
 Indemnify Sodexo against any general liability claim
related to their product.
 Contractually required to purchase local products.
Sodexo’s requirements of the approved
vendor

4.  Food Safety and Liability
• Food safety and liability requirements are determined by
the produce vendor.
Farmer commitment to work with an
approved vendor

5. Sodexo’s requirements of the approved
vendor
"Sodexo encourages participation and growth
opportunities for local farmers and requires that its
produce suppliers use best efforts to provide
developmental assistance to “local” farmers.
Accordingly, Distributor represents to Sodexo that
locally grown products shall be included in its
portfolio of products offered to customers and
delivered to the Accounts when in season to the
extent such local products are available. Sodexo
defines “local” as farmers within the same state or
geographic region."

6. Duck Delivery Produce - Portland, OR
 Nearly 900 students at Salem-Keizer Public
Schools' Leslie
 Farm to school lunch
 Teach students about the abundance of food
grown and produced in Oregon
 Fresh and nutritious menu features locally-
grown and raised items like natural beef, Gala
apples, jicama, potatoes, pears, kidney beans,
red onions, zucchini and radishes.
 Some of the locally-produced items on the
menu include cheese and black bean burgers.

7. Example

13. •We will source local, seasonal or
sustainably grown or raised products.
•We will source sustainable fish and
seafood
•We will source and promote
sustainable equipment and supplies
•We will support local community
development
•We will fight hunger and malnutrition