Not all milk are created equal.
Not all milk is produced the same way, and not all milk companies go through the same meticulous processes and thorough methods to produce the best quality milk.
For instance, the Royal FrieslandCampina’s (RFC) group of companies upholds all the wonderful goodness of gifts of nature and combines these with the most modern of technologies to produce nutritious milk.
Believing that there are no shortcuts to producing good milk, RFC’s Grass to Glass process carries with it the gold standard in milk production – from farming, milking, collecting, processing, packaging and all the way to distributing – putting special emphasis on food safety, quality, labor safety, and the environment.
Known for its green meadows, blue skies, and pristine lakes, the RFC farms located across Europe are havens for cows that are practically treated like royalty. They graze on nothing but the freshest, cleanest grass across farmlands six hours a day, 120 days a year. In some farms, the water is analyzed more frequently but the minimum requirement is, at least, once a year to ensure that there are no contaminants or water-borne diseases the animals could catch.
Because healthy cows mean premium, quality milk, each cow has a code attached to the collar to help veterinarians track the animal’s health regularly.
While traditional farming is still practiced, RFC transits farmers in the best technologies to ensure that benefits generated from modern dairy farming are optimized. The milking equipment are also checked regularly to ensure they are in tip-top shape.
Complete Confidence
After milking, eight quality parameters must be fulfilled to ensure adherence to RFC’s standards of quality. Among these parameters are temperature and color, bacterial count, antibiotics, etc.
Once they pass these parameters, the milk is assigned a code for easier monitoring during the entire process before it is transported to high-tech factories across Europe and Asia and exported to over 100 countries all over the world to more than a billion consumers.
Before leaving the factories, the milk is tested to ensure its safety and quality and is, then, assigned a final code before being used for its products that are exported to over 100 countries all over the world and used by over a billion consumers.
Rich analyses, protocols – all these careful processes are carried out to ensure that RFC produces impeccable products. Thus, mothers all over the world who prepare milk for their children can be confident that they are providing the best for their families.
RFC is a global top 5 dairy company with over 130 years of experience in producing milk. The 11.1 billion Euro company is composed of dairy cooperatives with about 19,224 member-farmers from The Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. The farmers are rewarded based on their system and on the quality and safety of their milk. Every milk delivery is tested and
farmers are paid according to composition, safety and quality, and system, leading to improvement of quality and safety metrics over time.
Philippine Partnership
In the Philippines, RFC has entered into a solid partnership with Alaska Milk Corporation (AMC), whose 40 years in the Philippine market has made it a leading milk brand in the country.
Wilfred Steven Uytengsu, AMC president and chief executive, reiterates AMC’s long-standing mission: “Together with FrieslandCampina, AMC continues to offer essential nutrients from milk at any stage of the people’s lives. Mothers can now benefit more from the combined power of our expertise.’’
By offering trustworthy and tasty dairy products to billions of people all over the world, FrieslandCampina contributes towards safeguarding food and nutrient security. The company, that is fully owned by a cooperative with 19,244 member dairy farmers, is committed to high standards in the field of food safety, the personal safety of its employees, quality, sustainability and transparency throughout the entire production chain – ‘from grass to glass’.
This lays the foundation for consumer trust in the products and safeguards the continuity of the company and the cooperative.
Aside from the Philippines, FrieslandCampina supplies dairy-based beverages, cheese and desserts to Europe, Africa and to key Asian countries like Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Singapore. Other products, such as cream and butter products, are supplied to bakeries and catering companies, while raw materials are also being supplied to manufacturers of infant nutrition, the food industry and the pharmaceutical sector around the world.
Present during the Friso launched partnership with Alaska Milk Corporation at Solaire Resort are Tiffany Anne Santuyo, Registered nutritionist/Dietitian/Nutrition Consultant of Alaska Milk Corporation and from the FreislandCampina Dairy Foods, Dr. Henkjan Verkade, Prof. of Pedriatics University of Groningen, University Medical Center, Groningen, The Netherlands/Consultant, and Dr. Anne Schaafsma, Senior Scientist Nutrition, Global Nutrition Development team of FreislandCampina Innovations International.
With stringent quality control, and its solid focus on promoting innovation, Alaska Milk Corporation and Royal FrieslandCampina further theircommitted to deliver products which promote proper digestion andabsorption that will help infants and young children grow healthy inside and out.
Friso Four and Frisomum is available in leading supermarkets and drugstores nationwide.
