Product Responsibility
Our commitment to deliver high-quality, nutritious and responsibly produced products to our customers and consumers.
Our Products
For more than 70 years, Leprino Foods Company has been transforming milk into a range of cheese and nutritional products to help feed and nourish families. We are working to ensure that all our products are responsibly and sustainably produced.
Cheese Products
We produce a variety of cheeses, including reduced fat and low sodium options, to meet nutritional needs without sacrificing taste, texture or performance.
Nutrition Products
Leprino Nutrition products deliver the wholesome building blocks that enable healthy lifestyles. We provide quality nutrition ingredients for brands across the globe.
Leprino Quality
The phrase “Leprino Quality is a way of life” was coined in 1950 by Mike Leprino Sr. with the belief that the company would always try to do the right things, continuously improve, act with a sense of urgency and have a passion for service.
Delivering Quality
Our approach to quality management focuses on prevention, continuous improvement and best practices. Our integrated food safety and quality systems enable our teams to adhere to regulatory requirements and customer and third-party standards, meet our internal requirements, and exceed customer expectations.
The Leprino Quality Continuous Improvement (LQCI) Program integrates multiple initiatives
Preventing Problems Before They Happen (PPBTH)
Through its nine principles, PPBTH helps employees stay vigilant in identifying and addressing potential issues proactively.
Zero Tolerance
Our holistic approach to food safety underscores the elevated standards we must always meet.
Leprino Quality Animal Care (LQAC)
Our robust program mandates that our milk suppliers and dairy farmers comply with world-leading animal care practices.
Leprino Quality energizes, empowers and engages employees to continuously improve our business to be the World’s Best while creating ownership that cultivates responsibility and accountability. We achieve our organizational goals through leadership, communication, continuous improvement, innovation, rewards and recognition.
Formal aspects of the framework include quality policies at both the company and facility levels. We also have standard procedures in place that address location-specific production-mix considerations. Each facility’s quality systems include complete assessment and control of all ingredient processes, sanitation and pathogen environmental controls, and distribution controls.
Shared Responsibility
Our quality culture is underpinned by the belief that quality is everyone’s responsibility. In addition to providing ongoing training to all employees, we empower them to take on improvement projects and set incentives for meeting quality and food safety objectives. The Leprino Quality Continuous Improvement Program rewards exceptional quality by recognizing a Team of the Year at each location and an overall Company Team of the Year.
Ongoing assessment and improvement
Our food safety and quality systems have consistently demonstrated full compliance with customer and third-party standards such as the Safe Quality Food Code. In addition, we regularly perform internal assessments to identify areas for improvement.
Food Safety
When it comes to food safety, there are no shortcuts in meeting our responsibility to produce and distribute wholesome, safe cheese and dairy nutritional products.
Managing for Food Safety
As a longtime food safety advocate, Leprino Foods is committed to building knowledge, strengthening practices and reducing risks across the dairy community. Our Zero Tolerance approach to food safety goes beyond compliance, guiding all aspects of our work through robust risk analysis and risk management. We ensure food safety is embedded in these areas of operations and management:
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In Our Supply Chain
Our focus on food safety begins well before milk and other ingredients arrive at our plants. Our qualification and selection process for milk and critical ingredients covers each supplier’s food safety program.
In Our Plants
All facilities have comprehensive food safety plans to comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act, stringent food and safety regulations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and facility and equipment guidance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Leveraging advanced technologies
Our genomics research center performs sophisticated genomic “fingerprinting” and analysis on ingredients from third-party suppliers and our products, generating insights into potential food safety issues.
Traceability
The ability to track any food through all stages of production, processing and distribution is critical to food safety. Leprino Foods was one of the first dairy companies to commit to the voluntary industry Guidance for Dairy Product Enhanced Traceability, which is regularly updated to reflect FDA requirements and best practices, and our efforts substantially exceed the industry’s minimum guidelines.
2023 Highlights
The LQCI Global Conservation Team of the Year
The Greeley Clean in Place Verification & Validation Group received Team of the Year in 2022. Through these efforts, the plant was able to reduce daily water usage by an impressive 16.2 million gallons per year.
The LQCI Productivity Team of the Year
The Fort Morgan String: NFFHC Reduction Team received Team of the Year in 2022. Their activities to standardize, simplify and measure resulted in reducing Not Fit for Human Consumption product by 5,000 pounds per week (or 29%). The team surpassed its original goal and was also able to create a sustainable framework for continued success in years to come.
