Lakeland, Fl.— Tampa Maid Foods, LLC is pleased to announce their new partnership with the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI). For Tampa Maid, GSSI provides a one-stop-shop for credible seafood sustainability certifications. The company joins more than 80 other like-minded organizations working with GSSI to create a more sustainable seafood industry.
To ensure confidence in the supply and promotion of certified seafood, GSSI’s Global Benchmark Tool assesses seafood certification schemes, both aquaculture and wild caught, against a globally recognized set of criteria rooted in the United Nations FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and United Nations FAO Ecolabelling Guidelines. This increases transparency and credibility in seafood certification and in turn, enables informed choices for procuring certified seafood.
“We are proud to be a funding partner for GSSI and support the ongoing efforts to create a more transparent and sustainable seafood industry,” says Rod Van Wyngarden, Chief Operating Officer at Tampa Maid. “Not only will this open up more sustainable sourcing opportunities, but it also allows us to satisfy our customer’s growing demand for responsibly-sourced, credible seafood.”
As a leading supplier of value-added seafood and specialty products, Tampa Maid is committed to working with GSSI and partners to find solutions that address the complex challenges across the seafood supply chain. To learn more about Tampa Maid Foods, visit www.tampamaid.com. To learn more about the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative, visit www.ourgssi.org.
About Tampa Maid Foods, LLC.
Based in Lakeland, Florida, Tampa Maid Foods is a leading supplier of value-added seafood and specialty products to the food industry. For further information please contact Tampa Maid Foods, LLC. at 863-687-4411 or visit www.tampamaid.com.
About GSSI
The Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI) is a global, Public-Private Partnership, working towards more sustainable seafood for everyone. GSSI was founded in 2013 as a sector wide, multi-stakeholder initiative to create shared, global and non-competitive solutions for sustainability certification issues in the global seafood supply chain. GSSI’s mission is to ensure confidence in the supply and promotion of certified seafood, as well as to promote improvement in seafood certification schemes. For more information, visit www.ourgssi.org.
