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Compass Group, Contessa Announce Sustainable Farmed-Shrimp Purchasing Standards

February 2010 -- Compass Group, in collaboration with the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program, has developed purchasing standards for sustainably farmed shrimp. In order to sell farmed shrimp to Compass Group, suppliers must verify – via independent, third-party audit – that they are meeting these purchasing standards. (The standards equate to a “good alternative” ranking under the sustainability criteria of the Seafood Watch program.) Suppliers must also document for Compass Group an independently traceable process that assures the shrimp delivered to Compass Group were produced according to the purchasing standards.

We believe these corporate purchasing standards can eventually be supplanted by a rigorous international certification program for aquaculture operations that reflects the same sustainability criteria used by the Seafood Watch program regarding:

1. Use of marine resources
2. Risk to wild stocks from escapes
3. Risk of disease and parasite transfer to wild stocks
4. Risk of pollution and habitat effects and,
5. Effectiveness of the management regime. 

The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s detailed Seafood Watch sustainability criteria for farmed seafood can be found here.

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