Manufacturing and facility
One food-grade building, everything under its roof.
Our Norwood, Ontario facility runs washing, dehydration, milling and grinding, and co-packing on one site, under a Safe Food for Canadians licence and HACCP policies and procedures. Producing since 2014.
The foundation
Four operations, one site.
Each one is a step a customer can use on its own or as part of the whole run.
Commercial food processing
Intake, inspection, and automated washing and conveying lines prepare raw product for the line.
Industrial dehydration
A tunnel dehydrator dries vegetables, fruits, herbs, and powders to a shelf-stable moisture level.
Milling and grinding
A grinder takes dried product to flakes or to the particle size a specification calls for.
Co-packing and shipping
Filled and sealed on site, from custom B2B bulk containers to retail-ready packaging, and shipped from single cartons by courier to full truckloads.
Equipment
The plant, photographed in 2024.
Real equipment in the rooms it runs in: the tunnel dehydrator, the automated washing line, and its control panel.
Food safety and quality
Licensed, documented, and tested.
The programme behind every shipment, stated the way the documents state it.
- 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.
- Testing
- Routine microbiological testing on every batch of food product we manufacture; results on the certificate of analysis that ships with the order.
- Lot codes
- Every cricket powder lot code identifies the product type, the barn, and the production week, so a shipment traces back to the week it was made.
- Premises
- Crickets are raised, processed, and packed on Entomo Farms premises. Product is not irradiated. No solvents are used in manufacturing, other than cleaning chemicals at food-safe concentrations.
- Documentation
- Specification sheet and certificate of analysis with shipments; routine microbiological testing on every batch of food product we manufacture. Commercial invoice, packing list, certificate of origin, and certificate of analysis with export shipments.
- Regulatory
- Products comply with the Safe Food for Canadians Act and Regulations and the US Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as stated in the supplier quality and food safety guarantee that accompanies the specification.
Packing, storage, and shipping
From the line to your dock.
How product leaves the building.
- Bulk
- Custom B2B bulk containers, quoted per order through the wholesale desk.
- Retail
- 454 g and 113 g stand-up barrier pouches.
- Storage
- Cool (under 25 °C) and dry (relative humidity under 60 percent), sealed, away from odours and direct sunlight. Do not refrigerate.
- Shelf life
- Cricket powder: 24 months from the date of manufacture under those conditions.
- Shipping
- Single cartons by courier through to full truckloads, palletized at about 1,200 lb per pallet.
What runs here
Five services, one address.
Industrial dehydration
Tunnel dehydration for vegetables, fruits, and herbs, from raw intake to finished dried product.
Learn moreContract food processing
Processing capacity for brands that outsource steps their own lines cannot absorb.
Learn moreFood ingredient manufacturing
Dried and milled ingredients made to your specification, then co-packed and shipped.
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Cricket powder and whole roasted crickets for food, pet food, feed, and research buyers.
Learn morePet food ingredients
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Learn moreNext step
Bring us the product and the volume.
A person replies within five business days with questions, the specification, and the path to a quote.