Product and food safety
At Nature Safe Fertilizers, safety isn’t just a part of our name — it’s a core value.
Together, with our parent company Darling Ingredients, we’re dedicated to high standards in food safety and biosecurity. Nature Safe products are fully compliant with all state and federal regulations and registrations, giving our customers peace of mind.
Vertical integration and responsible sourcing
Safety and accountability, every step of the way
Prevention-based programs
Listings and registrations
Prevention-based programs
Each input — whether feather meal, or meat and bone meal — is tested in our on-site facility labs and are also routinely sent to independent labs for full analytic testing of nutrients and heavy metals. We also test for microbiological contaminants, further ensuring product quality and food safety.
Darling Ingredients adheres to the FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA) Preventative Controls for Animal Food when manufacturing its animal-based products, and our fertilizer manufacturing plants adhere to the FDA FSMA Produce Safety Rule.
Listings and registrations
We make safety our top priority to make growing easier for our customers. Nature Safe fertilizers are approved for unrestricted use in organic crop production by the USDA National Organic Program. Many of our fertilizer formulations are listed and registered with a variety of material review organizations (MROs) including:
- California Department of Food and Agriculture Organic Input Materials Program (CDFA/OIM)
- Washington State Department of Agriculture. (WSDA) Organic Program
- Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI)
- Leafy Green Marketing Agreement (LGMA) standards (Turlock, California, facility)
When it comes to organic certified crop production, compliance with an at-farm certifier is critical to a grower’s success. Nature Safe can help with a full array of product safety documentation and independent lab validation, so growers can focus on crops instead of fertility supplier paperwork.
Safe fertilizer for commercial needs
We’re proud to produce ethically and environmentally sound products. We invest in people, programs and infrastructure to strengthen our expertise and ensure accountability.
We encourage customers to ask questions and learn more about our processes and procedures. Backed by Darling Ingredients, Nature Safe’s fertilizers are the natural choice for ensuring safety and compliance for growers. To see our processes in action, contact us today to schedule a fertilizer plant visit.