Responsible Sourcing

We ask suppliers to commit to:

• Providing good working conditions (contracts, health and safety, equal opportunities).
• Opposing slavery, all forms of forced labor, including child labor, and all other forms of abuse and exploitation.
• Being compliant with local environmental regulations and conservation, including deforestation and the use of harmful pesticides.

Our Code of Conduct ensures transparency and represents our moral commitments to all players in our value chain.

Palm oil is an essential raw material used in many of our products. We are aware of the serious concerns regarding palm oil supply chains and the risk of deforestation. We are committed to sustainable palm oil cultivation that respects biodiversity, natural ecosystems, local communities, and workers in palm oil-producing countries.

Beyond sourcing RSPO certified palm, purchasing Book & Claim credits and investing directly in smallholders and farmers through our Solidaridad collaboration, we have enhanced our transparency by implementing satellite monitoring across our palm oil supply chain, allowing us to detect and address deforestation risks.

Puratos is committed to sustainable sourcing that protects forests, peatlands, and people. Through our No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation (NDPE) Policy, we ensure our supply chain supports biodiversity, respects communities, and promotes transparency and traceability.

We firmly believe that addressing sector challenges such as farmer income, forced labor, and deforestation requires collective action from all stakeholders within the cocoa and chocolate industry, including consumers.

To demonstrate our commitment, we have developed the Cacao-Trace program, which prioritizes quality and provides additional income to farmers worldwide. Cacao-Trace is our groundbreaking program that revolutionizes cocoa sourcing. By offering farmers fair prices and our exclusive Chocolate Bonus of 0.10 euro per kilogram sold, we create a life-changing impact. Through value sharing, we invest in cocoa farmers and their communities, ensuring their economic well-being and fostering sustainable farming practices.

By end of 2030, 50% of our cocoa ingredient sourcing will be part of the Cacao-Trace Program.

Fruit is a beneficial natural ingredient. At Puratos, we are sourcing over 120 fruit varieties on a worldwide level. This extensive fruit sourcing network is a crucial component of our overall approach to delivering exceptional and innovative fruit filling solutions in bakery and patisserie products. Our Field to Fork program, aims to source our fruit sustainably and in compliance with our Fruit Pesticide Policy.

By 2030, we aim to source 50% of our fruit through the Field to Fork program, and 100% of our suppliers should be compliant with our Fruit Pesticide Policy by 2030 in every site.

We are offering a wide range of alternative ingredients for our customers to enable them to reduce their reliance on animal-based raw materials like dairy products and eggs.

Our solutions include:

• Acti Egg Reduction improver: enabling to reduce 15% of eggs in cakes.
• Intens Egg Replacement improver: enabling to reduce up to 100% of eggs in yeast-raised applications, such as bread, buns, and rolls.
• Sunset Glaze: a 100% plant-based egg-wash alternative, which can replace one ton of eggs for each ton of product used.

By offering these alternatives, we aim to contribute to a more sustainable and compassionate food system.

Our ingredient solutions also contribute to reducing overall reliance on eggs across the value chain. In 2025, these innovations helped avoid the use of over 780 million eggs.

For some products we still need to source eggs. In 2020, we committed to sourcing 100% cage-free eggs globally, by the end of 2025. We’ve made progress: 35% of the eggs used globally are now cage-free. This increase is largely driven by progress in the European Union, where 85% of products already use cage-free eggs.

Read our statement to learn where we are in this transition and what comes next.