Food and beverage manufacturing
Drying, processing, and co-packing capacity that fits your supply chain.
A Canadian processing and ingredient partner for food and beverage manufacturers: dried vegetables, fruits, and herbs, milled to specification, plus cricket protein, all from one food-grade building with documentation for every shipment.
What we supply and process
Ingredients made to your specification, or your product run on our line.
Dried produce
Vegetables, fruits, and herbs, dried to a shelf-stable moisture level as pieces, flakes, or powder.
Milled ingredients
Particle size to your specification, packed on site.
Cricket protein
Cricket powder for cereals, bars, snacks, and baked goods, in bulk.
Contract processing
Washing, drying, processing, and co-packing as one job, or any step on its own.
Built for supplier audits
What your quality team will ask for, answered in advance.
- Licence
- Safe Food for Canadians licence issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (licence 6J8XCRFB), held by Next Millennium Farms Inc., the legal entity behind the Entomo Farms brand.
- Programme
- The team follows all HACCP policies and procedures. The plant does not hold HACCP or BRCGS certification and does not claim to.
- Documentation
- Specification sheet and certificate of analysis with shipments; routine microbiological testing on every batch of food product we manufacture.
- Allergens
- A full allergen declaration grid accompanies the cricket powder specification; the label statement reads: Contains crickets. May cause reactions in people sensitive to shellfish and crustaceans. May contain soy.
- Lot codes
- Every cricket powder lot code identifies the product type, barn, and production week.
- Premises
- One food-grade building in Norwood, Ontario, producing since 2014.
Planning supply
How orders are planned and shipped.
- Tell the team anticipated volumes in advance, so production and harvest scheduling can plan the supply.
- Formats from custom B2B bulk containers to retail-ready packaging, filled and sealed on site in Norwood, Ontario.
- Shipping from single cartons by courier through to full truckloads, palletized at about 1,200 lb per pallet.
- Shelf-stable product with Optimized Ingredient Stability in transit and in your warehouse; cricket powder keeps for 24 months.
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Send the specification, or the product you want one for.
A person replies within five business days.