VANCOUVER — Catering giant Sodexo Canada is more than halfway to its goal of ensuring that all seafood it serves is sustainably caught. The company has enlisted the Vancouver Aquarium’s Ocean Wise program to help get the rest of way there by 2015.
Ocean Wise will work with Sodexo’s catering locations at universities, hospitals and businesses to remove products that don’t meet the standard and work with suppliers to find alternative products, said Mike McDermid, Ocean Wise’s partner relations manager.
Sodexo joins institutional foods service giants Compass Group and Aramark Canada as partners of the Vancouver-based eco-certification program.
The food service industry buys more than 70 per cent of the seafood sold in North America. Sodexo serves 300 clients, many of them large institutions with several food outlets. As a result, Sodexo has considerable clout in the market and exerts influence on the practices of its suppliers.
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