At La Granja Foods, we have the IFS 2023 certificate with a High Level result, and we have now obtained the IFS certification annually for 9 years.

IFS Food is a food safety standard recognised by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) to audit companies which manufacture food. Also companies that handle and package bulk food products, concentrating on food quality and safety of the products processed.

Since its origins, La Granja has been especially aware and sensitive to the integration of people with functional diversity.

That is why we collaborate with organizations dedicated to helping people with disabilities or special needs.

La Granja collaborates with Fundació L’Espiga de Vilafranca del Penedès, since its creation in 1991. The purpose of this local entity is to promote assistance, education and generic and specific training, and, in general, any activity that favors the social inclusion of people with disabilities. (www.fundaciolespiga.com) La Granja regularly cooperates with Fundació Pro-Penedès, which seeks the social and economic promotion of the region by carrying out, among others, job placement activities with people with any type of physical, mental or sensory impairment and at risk of social exclusion. Another of La Granja’s collaboration channels is with the cooperative group of entities and social enterprises Entrem-hi, specifically in the program Junts Trenquem el Cercle! With the support of Obra Social La Caixa and managed thanks to an economic fund with contributions from a network of supportive companies committed to training, it promotes work experience and the hiring of people at risk of exclusion. Among the companies involved is La Granja.

Ecological or organic certification is the process by which producers of food, inputs, and processed or transformed products, obtain the qualification of ecological.

The requirements vary in each country and usually cover a set of production standards for cultivation, storage, processing, packaging and distribution.

The essential requirements are:

• Not to have been treated with any type of pesticides and synthetic chemicals, such as fertilizers, antibiotics or additives.
• Cultivated in a way that respects natural life cycles at all times. Grown in soils where no chemicals have been used for three or more years.
• Not transgenic, i.e. genetically modified.
• Under go periodic inspections and keep a documentary control of the production process and sales of the product.

Spelt is a cereal that provides a much lower caloric value and is a cereal that our body tolerates much better than other cereals when digesting it.

It is also a preventive food for cardiovascular problems and cholesterol. It also strengthens the immune system.