Code of Conduct

Our Code of Conduct represents who we are as a company and sets forth the standards to which we hold all employees and representatives accountable. Available in eight languages, it provides practical guidance about ethically navigating roles and responsibilities in any context, ensuring a shared understanding of how we uphold the highest ethical standards. It also serves as a reference for locating company policies and related resources.

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A message from our Chairman & CEO

Our company's mission is important, as is how we achieve it. We follow Darling Ingredients’ core values of integrity, transparency and entrepreneurship. Working together we can achieve a lot, and individually we each have a responsibility to always act ethically and maintain our company’s strong reputation. Our Code of Conduct outlines the values and principles that should be used to guide us in conducting business responsibly and making ethical, everyday decisions. It is important to speak up – ask questions and report concerns.

— Randall C. Stuewe, Chairman & CEO of Darling Ingredients

Our core values

Our core values are the foundation of everything Darling Ingredients stands for, and they form the basis of our Code of Conduct. We are to reflect these values so Darling Ingredients’ customers, investors, shareholders and suppliers can feel safe placing their trust in our products and services.

Integrity

Honest, open, ethical and fair. Trusted to adhere to our word.

Transparency

Authentic and straightforward in reporting goals, results and practices.

Entrepreneurship

Operating with knowledge, passion and determination.

Anonymous reporting

Our Speak Up Line

Darling Ingredients is committed to conducting business with integrity and holds our employees and representatives to the highest ethical and legal standards throughout the world. As outlined in our Speak Up and Retaliation Policy, employees and representatives must speak up with questions and concerns.

Darling Ingredients’ Speak Up Line is a confidential, independent service for anonymous reporting — available 24/7/365 with translation and support.

Visit our Speak Up Line website

Our policies

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Animal Health and Welfare

We work with regulatory agencies at the federal, state and local levels to help protect animal health and wellbeing, and to ensure compliance with applicable regulation.

Read our Animal Health and Welfare Policy

Code of Conduct

Conflict of Interest

We are committed to conducting business with integrity and good business judgment and without the influence of conflicts of interest.

Learn more by reading our Conflict of Interest Policy

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

We operate in a wide range of legal and business environments, and strive to conduct our business according to the highest standards of business ethics.

Read our Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Policy

Global Environment, Health and Safety

We are committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for our employees and to limiting the impact of our operations on the environment.

Read our Global Environment, Health and Safety Policy

Global Water

We have a responsibility to conserve natural resources and support a sustainable environment. Water is a valuable natural resource and its protection and efficient utilization in our operations is essential to our commitment to environmental stewardship.

Read our Global Water Policy

Human Rights

We have built a strong culture of respect, centered on our values of integrity, transparency and entrepreneurship. We hold ourselves and those we do business with to the highest standards of ethical conduct.

Read our Human Rights Policy

Product Safety and Quality

Product safety and quality are fundamental to creating sustainable ingredients within our Feed, Food and Fuel segments.

Read our Product Safety and Quality Policy

Related Party Transactions

This policy is intended to enable the Audit Committee to consider the approval and reporting of transactions between our company and any of our Directors, nominees for Director, Executive Officers or Significant Shareholders, or certain entities or persons related to them.

Learn more by reading our Related Party Transactions Policy

Speak Up and Retaliation

Our Speak Up and Retaliation Policy explains the reporting options, protections, and processing of any report given through the Speak Up Line, Darling Ingredients’ employee and third-party reporting service.

Read our Speak Up and Retaliation Policy

Supplier Code of Conduct

We created our Supplier Code of Conduct to ensure that our suppliers put into place safe working conditions, treat their employees with respect and abide by guidelines for environmental stewardship, business ethics and compliance.

Read our Supplier Code of Conduct

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