Dufflet Pastries Achieves BRC 'Grade A' Global Standard For Food Safety

TORONTO – Dufflet Pastries announced that its production bakery has been awarded the elite BRC 'Grade A' Global Standard for Food Safety Version 6 certification in recognition of the facility achieving/passing the rigorous standards set by one of the world's leading food safety and quality certification programs.

Dufflet Pastries, manufacturer of ready to eat baked desserts and confectionery items, proudly joins North America's leading dessert manufacturers to achieve the premier level of food safety and quality certification following an intensive systems and practices audit by Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) certifying body SAI Global.

Demonstrating a commitment to quality and food safety that is recognized on an international level in over 100 countries, Dufflet Pastries confirms its position as Canada's top quality dessert manufacturer using only ingredients from all natural sources and no preservatives.

“We are proud to have met the challenge of this examination of our food safety programs and systems”, says company founder and CEO Dufflet Rosenberg. “It is vital for our customers to know that we pay strict attention to making safe and wholesome products that both retailers and consumers can trust, while continuing to produce at high volume creative desserts that are hand-crafted from scratch."

Dufflet President Daniele Bertrand adds, " This is a wonderful achievement for the Dufflet site and a testimony to the hard work and effort by all of our employees."

From being crowned by the media as the "Queen of Cake" for 35 sweet years of creating delightful pastries, cakes, tarts, pies and cookies, this achievement represents a significant milestone for Dufflet Pastries and their confectionery division, Dufflet Small Indulgences.

About Dufflet Pastries:

The magic began in 1975 when Dufflet Rosenberg began baking from her home for the Cow Café. In 1982 Dufflet opened her first pastry café on the trendy Queen Street West strip – today a Toronto institution and destination for the city's finest pastries and divine desserts. In 2002 Dufflet launched her second pastry + flower café on Yonge Street – truly a Mecca of small indulgences.

In addition to Dufflet’s retail shops, Dufflet Pastries supplies over 500 restaurants and cafes, specialty food shops, upscale supermarkets, hotels and caterers with more than 100 unique, entirely natural products – including the city’s most talked about wedding cakes – everything lovingly hand-crafted!

Whether creating a dazzling repertoire of desserts for an evening honoring Philippe Starck, the ultimate chocolate birthday cake for Mick Jagger or simply a line of new cupcakes for her Cafes, Dufflet Pastries is truly Toronto’s finest purveyor of pastry.  http://www.dufflet.com

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