The American Institute of Baking (AIB)'s international food safety auditors have given functional ingredients firm Larex a superior rating for its Minnesota manufacturing plant for the third consecutive time. The move helps consolidate the firm's reputation for safety and hygiene.

"Achieving the Superior rating from AIB for a third consecutive time demonstrates our strong commitment to providing high quality, safe, ingredients to our customers and consumers," said president Bo Nickoloff.

"As we have demonstrated with our AG product line, we will continue to produce and provide all current and future ingredients under the highest standards required not only by our customers, but also by our employees." US-based firm Larex is the exclusive worldwide manufacturer of Larch Arabinogalactan (AG), a natural polysaccharide extracted from already harvested Larch trees. Larex's AG compound offers many important benefits in a number of health science and consumer applications.

AG products provide multifunctional properties on their own, or when combined with other ingredients. These help to enhance product performance.

"Maintaining a superior-rated facility is one of the main objectives of our technical and manufacturing teams. We pride ourselves on producing ingredients that our customers know are safe, proven, and of the highest quality," said vice president of manufacturing Richard Faulkner.