For an ingredient made to your specification, the useful evidence sits at the plant: which process the site runs, how it keeps product lines apart, what a line is stated to make and at what minimum. This page describes how we search for ingredient manufacturers and what the shortlist, plant-level comparison and source log contain. The seller's position in a supply chain is the subject of supplier search.
An ingredient made to specification depends on the process the site runs and on how it separates product lines. The brief sets the specification and the process route first. Each candidate is then read for the processing steps, equipment and segregation it states and for the minimum run per grade. Where sources show a trading company rather than a plant, the factory-or-trader assessment records it as an inference.
A plant description on the company's own site is stated by the company; the review notes when it is the only source.
Public sources do not show analysis results or how a line performs in practice. A laboratory result would be needed for that, and it is outside this service.
Candidates are read for the following, and gaps are written down as unavailable.
The processing steps the plant states for your product type, such as extraction, milling, drying or blending, and whether they are carried out on site.
Equipment and batch or continuous operation as stated by the company, and any capacity statement it makes.
What a plant states about keeping product lines and allergen-containing lines apart, recorded as stated by the company.
Quality or food-hygiene certificates a plant states, with the scheme owner or issuer named on each document.
The minimum run and pack format per specification, as stated by the company.
Whether a plant states extraction or blending steps for that product type decides the shortlist.
Plants are compared on stated processing steps and the minimum per grade rather than on brochure range.
Few plants may state a comparable process; the report may mostly say unavailable, and that is itself the finding.
Research reports what can be established from public and provided sources. It is not a guarantee about a counterparty's future conduct and not legal advice.
No. Testing is done by laboratories you appoint.
No. What a market allows is a question for a qualified professional.
No. Public sources show what a plant states, not how it operates; audits are outside the service.
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