Know Your Peas: Company to Trace Supplies Back to Farm
- France’s Roquette tests traceability program for Canada plant
- Consumers increasingly want more knowledge about food supplies
This article is for subscribers only.
Pretty soon, you’ll be able to know exactly what farm the pea you’re eating came from.
Roquette, a food, nutrition and pharmaceutical ingredient company, is building a pea protein plant near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. While the plant won’t be running until the second half of 2020, the company has already started work on tracing the crops that will get processed there.