A’Saffa Foods wins Cobb Award for the second time in a row

MUSCAT: A’Saffa Foods, the largest fully integrated poultry producer in Oman, is delighted to announce that they have won a prestigious international accolade for the second time consecutively - the Cobb Award for ‘exceptional performance in the category of best cycle mortality 2018’.

The Cobb Awards recognise annual world-class performance at breeder, broiler and hatchery level in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.The presentation of the award took place at the A’Saffa Foods’Farms plant in Thumrait, Salalah and was attended by senior management personnel.

Eng. Mohammed Suhail Al Shanfari, CEO of A’Saffa Foods said: “Our winning of the highly coveted Cobb Award reiterates our brand’s uncompromised quality, stringent manufacturing standards and conformity to international specifications, while reinforcing our commitment to excellence and the setting of new benchmarks. We would like to thank Cobb-Vantress Inc for bestowing us with this prestigious award.”

He added, “A’Saffa Foods is accredited and certified by the international certifying body TUV and has been given the ISO 9001:2008 - Total Quality Management System, ISO 14001:2004 - Environmental Management System and HACCP - for Food Quality and Hygiene. The company have a fully integrated feed mill, processing plant and further processing facilities, and place 165,000 breeders a year – all Cobb500 – and is also embarking on expansion plans to reach a broiler rearing capacity of eight million per cycle.”

Placing the farms far away from human habitation, migratory bird routes and other developments enables the company to minimise any potential risk of contamination or disease that could impact the farms that are located across a 40 square kilometre site.

The infrastructure at A’Saffa Foods plant includes parent farms, feed mill, environmentally controlled sheds (EC Shed), hatchery, halal certified slaughter house, modern (fully automated, untouched by hand) processing plant, R&D centre, disease diagnostics and feed analytical labs. A’Saffa birds are fed with 100% natural ingredients that are also manufactured at the A’Saffa Feed mill, all throughout the raising period to ensure that the chickens are healthy and as close to organic as possible.

Known for producing Oman’s freshest chicken and allied products, A’Saffa Foods also has a highly trained on-site medical team and experienced scientists at their farms, who monitor the health of the chickens daily to ensure that they are kept free from disease, have the right balance of feed and water; thus ensuring that the final product that is delivered to the consumer is healthy, natural and pure.