Bonduelle and Taylor Farms Locations Named 2023 CFS Gold Star Award Recipients

Commercial Food Sanitation (CFS) is proud to announce Taylor Farms–Tennessee and Bonduelle–Irwindale as recipients of their 2023 Gold Star Award. The annual award recognizes production facilities that demonstrated self-managed excellence in sanitation, hygienic design, and environmental pathogen control in the prior year. 

Both facilities met all CFS Gold Star program criteria including training, establishing a preventive control team and its champion, facility hygiene culture, and quick service restaurant (QSR) customer support.

This is the second consecutive year that Bonduelle–Irwindale has earned the award. 

“With great partners like CFS, who communicate and train on industry best practices, and like McDonald’s, who encourage us to be better every day, we are proud of our Irwindale facility for being a Gold Star facility two years in a row,” said Tony Banegas, Vice President of Quality, Food Safety and Industry Relations at Bonduelle. “We choose to meet these ever-increasing standards because we want our consumers and our families to enjoy plant-rich foods that are safe, healthy, and of the highest quality.”

Taylor Farms–Tennessee was also honored for their unwavering commitment to food safety.  

“With food safety and quality as our number-one priority, it feels great to be recognized as a CFS Gold Star recipient,” said Brian Thure, President of Taylor Farms–Tennessee. “We’re extremely proud of this award and look forward to continuously improving and repeating year after year!”

Facilities that receive the award achieved expectations and established programs which demonstrate sustainable characteristics. Their exemplary performances serve as an inspiration to the industry and set a benchmark for excellence in the field.

“We’re honored to recognize Taylor Farms–Tennessee and Bonduelle–Irwindale with our CFS 2023 Gold Star Award,” said Nathan Mirdamadi, Food Safety Manager at Commercial Food Sanitation. “Both plants represent the award to its fullest by achieving a high level of ongoing commitment to continuous improvement, resulting in reduced food safety risk and improved food safety standards.”