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The nationโs leading yogurt maker, Dannon, [April 27]ย announced a pledge to its farmers, retail customers and consumers to further improve sustainable agriculture practices for its milk supply, to increase transparency for its portfolio of products and evolve to more natural and fewer ingredients for flagship brands.
Dannonโs Pledge key components:
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- Dannon commits to offerย products coming from a more sustainable agriculture by working with its dairy farmer partners and their suppliersย to progressively implement the use ofย sustainable agriculture practices and technologyย . . . .
- Dannon commits to bring all products fromย three flagship brands (Dannonยฎ, Oikosยฎ and Danimalsยฎ)ย towards the use ofย fewer and more natural ingredients that are not synthetic and non-GMO. Importantly, Dannon also commits that for these brands theย feed of its farmersโ cows will be non-GMO, within a transition period of 3 years.ย . . .
- To ensure full transparency for consumers, Dannon also commits toย declare by December 2017 nationwide on label the presence of GMO ingredients in its products.ย . . .
. . . [S]tarting July 2016, . .ย ย the company will move to more natural ingredients which do not contain genetically modified ingredients for its flagship brands Oikos, Danimals and Dannon. . . .ย Starting in 2017 and completing the transformation by the end of 2018, Dannon will work with its farmer partners to ensure that the cows that supply Dannonโs milk for these flagship products will be fed non-GMO feed. . .ย . To further improve transparency, by December 2017, Dannonโs labels will note the presence of GMO ingredients in all products in which such ingredients remain.ย . . .
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