Our Commitment

Producing good food is more than ensuring our product is safe, wholesome and delicious. From easier-to-understand nutrition and ingredient labels on our packaging to harvesting byproducts for use in lifesaving medical applications, we’re making progress toward a healthier world. To learn more, view our health and wellness video.

Our Approach

As one of the world’s leading food and protein companies, we leverage our global vertically integrated supply chain to produce delicious, affordable, nutritionally important protein and partner with our food service and retail customers, as well as healthcare experts, to improve the health-related attributes of our products. We also provide our customers with the information they need to make responsible food choices. View our Good Is What We Do video here.

In addition to promoting healthy lifestyles through our products, we help improve human health — and save lives — by commercializing valuable bioscience products from our vertically integrated production process.

Our Accomplishments

Smithfield remains committed to improving the health profiles of all our products and increasing transparency through cleaner labeling across 100% of our product line by 2025 from a 2020 baseline. We continued to create valuable pharmaceutical products from the animal protein production process, including heparin, an anticoagulant used in medical applications. Watch this video to see how a Smithfield BioScience team member’s life was saved by heparin that was produced in his own department. 

A new project in 2023 was capturing peptone for use in animal feed. A byproduct of the heparin manufacturing process, peptone is a soluble protein formed in the early stage of protein breakdown during digestion.