Food Safety and

Liability

Insurance

Requirements

for Sodexo

October 16, 2010

All produce farmers work through Sodexo approved vendors/distributors

• All produce farmers refers to: small, local, regional, and large size farms

Requirements of farms seeking to sell to Sodexo

Audited and/or certified annually by a Sodexo approved 3rd party audit firm.

Provides oversight of the farms to ensure that Good Agricultural Practices (GAP’s).

Provide general liability insurance (naming Sodexo as additional insured) in the amount $5M per occurrence.

Maintain effective product trace-back and recall procedures.

Indemnify Sodexo against any general liability claim related to their product.

Contractually required to purchase local products.

Sodexo’s requirements of the approved vendor

Food Safety and Liability• Food safety and liability requirements are determined by

the produce vendor.

Farmer commitment to work with an approved vendor

Sodexo’s requirements of the approved vendor

"Sodexo encourages participation and growth opportunities for local farmers and requires that its

produce suppliers use best efforts to provide developmental assistance to “local” farmers.

Accordingly, Distributor represents to Sodexo that locally grown products shall be included in its portfolio of products offered to customers and

delivered to the Accounts when in season to the extent such local products are available.  Sodexo

defines “local” as farmers within the same state or geographic region."

Duck Delivery Produce - Portland, OR

Nearly 900 students at Salem-Keizer Public Schools' Leslie

Farm to school lunch Teach students about the abundance of food

grown and produced in Oregon Fresh and nutritious menu features locally-

grown and raised items like natural beef, Gala apples, jicama, potatoes, pears, kidney beans, red onions, zucchini and radishes.

Some of the locally-produced items on the menu include cheese and black bean burgers.

Example

•We will source local, seasonal or sustainably grown or raised products.•We will source sustainable fish and seafood•We will source and promote sustainable equipment and supplies•We will support local community development•We will fight hunger and malnutrition