Environment and Quality

In a time when the planet’s climate is changing and natural resources keep on diminishing, environmental action is becoming more and more essential.

The TOP Vinegar gives great emphasis to environmentally friendly techniques that require fewer natural resources during all stages of the production. That is why all product packaging are fully recyclable.
Recycling is of great importance; because it reduces CO2 emission, it reduces the total wastes and saves in energy and valuable resources as water. As a result, a sustainable future can be secured for the next generations.

In order to assure trust and continuous satisfaction of the customer’s demands, the TOP Vinegar uses as its leading policy, the aim to offer high quality products and services. Always, with respect to staff’s safety, to the protection of the environment and in accordance to EU and national laws and regulations.
The emphasis on quality begins with the careful choice of the suppliers & of the basic materials. Strict controls take place all the time, concerning anything that is directly or indirectly associated with the production of products, thus assuring their preeminent quality and safety.

TOP Vinegar has installed and certified the following international management standards, which refer to quality and to the environment:

Bureau Veritas Certification

• ISO 22000: 2005 for Food Hygiene and Safety
• ISO 9001:2008 for the Quality of Management on all of the company’s levels
• ISO 14001: 2004 for Environmental Management
• ISO 18001: 2007 for Hygiene and Safety in Working conditions
• SA 8000: 2008 for Corporate Social Responsibility.

In the framework of the above standardization systems, the company continues to invest in the sector of quality and environmental management by creating new laboratories of quality control, modern bottling production lines, systems for saving water and energy consumption, as well as systems of full recycling of wastes.