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GOOD IS WHAT WE DO

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At Smithfield Foods, “good” doesn’t stop with our products — it’s in everything we do.
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GOOD IS WHAT WE DO

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Health and Wellness
Health and Wellness

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.

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Our Targets
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On Track
Increase transparency of food nutrition through cleaner labels across 100% of our product line by 2025.
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Reduce added sugars by 10% across our entire U.S. product line by 2025.
Status:Needs Work
Needs Work
Reduce sodium by 10% across our entire U.S. product line by 2025.
Status:Needs Work
Our Commitments
Maximize our global vertically integrated supply chain to produce products critical to human health, including pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals.
Maximize our global vertically integrated supply chain to produce products critical to human health, including pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals.
Provide a variety of products for different diets and needs.
Provide a variety of products for different diets and needs.
In our international operations, include products that address health and wellness in accordance with EU nutrition and labeling standards.
In our international operations, include products that address health and wellness in accordance with EU nutrition and labeling standards.
HIGHLIGHTS
$175.5Million total investment in research and development in 2023
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30,000megas (million international units) of Heparin API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) produced per week, enough to treat 1 million patients with blood-clotting issues

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.

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Helping Communities
Helping Communities

Being a good corporate citizen means supporting the communities where our team members and their families live and where we operate.

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Diversity, Culture and Engagement
Diversity, Culture and Engagement

We believe the unique capabilities of each member of our team should be reflected at all levels of the organization.

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Worker Health and Safety
Worker Health and Safety

Our culture, processes and systems are designed to support our team members’ well-being at work and at home.

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Sustainability Report
2023 SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT REPORTDownload the 2023 Reportgood food divider
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