Onda has announced that its FeedTech Division has achieved FeedAssure certification, recognising its commitment to rigorous quality management, feed safety and operational excellence.
FeedAssure is the feed industry’s certification programme for demonstrating compliance with strict standards covering ingredient sourcing, manufacturing controls, traceability, sanitation, documentation and continuous improvement.
Following a year-long process to achieve certification, Onda’s FeedTech operations have been recognised for best practices in feed production and quality assurance. The certification highlights Onda’s continued commitment to quality across its operations.
“Innovation in animal nutrition is essential to strengthening the global food supply chain,” said Myrna Gillis, CEO of Onda. “FeedAssure certification expands our ability to support feed companies and ingredient suppliers as a small-batch-to-scale contract manufacturer. We can manufacture custom research and commercial diets, evaluate innovative ingredients under real-world conditions, and help clients move promising products toward commercial markets around the world.”
The certification process involved extensive collaboration between FeedTech operations, quality assurance, technical staff and management teams. Team members participated in detailed process reviews, training initiatives, internal audits and corrective action implementation to ensure alignment with FeedAssure requirements.
For Onda’s clients, the certification provides several advantages, including greater confidence in feed trial integrity, improved traceability and documentation, reduced operational risk and greater assurance for commercial-scale ingredient evaluations and product development programmes.
As a contract research organisation serving the global aquaculture industry, Onda’s FeedTech Division produces commercial and custom experimental diets and can conduct a range of aquatic animal research studies for feed manufacturers, ingredient suppliers, pharmaceutical companies and aquaculture producers. FeedAssure certification strengthens Onda’s ability to support clients with data generated under a recognised quality framework, helping to accelerate the development and commercialisation of innovative feed solutions.
“The foundational requirements were already in place from our GLP and GMP programmes. These shared processes, coupled with the specific manufacturing, Feed Fraud, Feed Defence and HACCP programmes, made FeedAssure a perfect fit for Onda,” said Catherine Albert, Quality Director at Onda.
Onda extended its appreciation to the members of the FeedTech and Quality teams whose work, attention to detail and commitment to excellence contributed to achieving the certification.
