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Fresh Earth Bake House gluten free bakery first to receive ISO accreditation in SA

Fresh Earth Bake House gluten free bakery first to receive ISO accreditation in SA

6th August 2015

By: Creamer Media Reporter

  

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From Creamer Media in Johannesburg, this is the Real Economy Report. Fresh Earth Bake House is the first exclusively gluten free bakery in South Africa to be ISO 22000 Food Safety System Certification compliant. Anine Vermeulen tells us more.

Anine Vermeulen:
The certificate is one of the highest food safety systems currently in place. It is a robust, internationally accepted certification scheme for the assessment and certification of food safety management systems in the entire supply chain. It covers the key requirements of many existing food safety standards and programmes.

Fresh Earth Bake House Owner Matthew Ballenden

Anine Vermeulen:
This is important for companies that would like to use the bakery facilities and expertise to produce their own gluten-free ranges. Fresh Earth Bake House currently produces the Spar gluten free range of biscuits, muffins, breads and rusks as well as the cake and bread premixes and a wide range of gluten free breads, cookies and muffins for Dis-Chem Pharmacies.

Additionally, the bakery produces gluten free baked goods under the Fresh Earth Bake House label for Pick 'n Pay - the range available at selected stores includes bagels, seed bread, muffins, white and brown bread, rusks, cookies, vegan rice bread.

Fresh Earth Bake House has the capability to manufacture low carbohydrate bread and other baked goods. This is important for retailers to note as customers are increasingly switching to 'low carb' eating plans. 

Previously, the bakery was part of the Fresh Earth Food Store in Emmarentia, Johannesburg. As a result of increased demand for gluten free baked goods, the owner and founder – Matthew Ballenden – made the bold decision to move the bakery to new premises in November 2013, enabling further growth of the business. The Fresh Earth Bake House now occupies a 1000sqm site in Booysens, South of Johannesburg. Currently the bakery has a daily output of between 1500 and 3000 units, with capacity to produce up to 15 000 units per day, should this be required by retailers.

Fresh Earth Bake House Owner Matthew Ballenden

Fresh Earth Bake House has a staff complement of 20 local artisans, all of whom have been personally trained by Matthew to perfect the art of gluten free baking techniques. They are all dedicated ambassadors for the bakery. As such, a staff trust, which will see 10% of the bakery being owned by the employees was set up in February this year.

Shannon de Ryhove:
Other news making headlines this week: Johannesburg is chosen to host the international entrepreneurship congress in 2017; and ArcelorMittal South Africa flags an iron-ore import plan as it seeks a new pricing deal with Kumba.

Johannesburg has been chosen to host the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in March 2017 – a first for Africa – that will bring together entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and policymakers to foster entrepreneurship worldwide as a tool for development.

GEN president Jonathan Ortmans

Steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa has signalled that it is aiming to reopen historically fraught iron-ore pricing negotiations with Kumba Iron Ore.

ArcelorMittal CEO Paul O’Flaherty

That’s Creamer Media’s Real Economy Report. Join us again next week for more news and insight into South Africa’s real economy.

Edited by Shannon de Ryhove
Contributing Editor

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