Food safety and quality assurance
A wash network that delivers peace of mind
Tosca’s wash centers manage your pool of reusables with industry-best on-time delivery and the highest food safety standards, ensuring you have the right assets at the right time, every time, label-free and fully sanitized.
Worry-free food safety
Tosca is the first reusable pooler to achieve ISO 22000 certification—the industry’s most thorough food safety management standard. But our washing and food safety safeguards don’t stop there.
ISO 22000:2018 certified
We ensure food safety compliance along the entire supply chain to the point of final consumption.
ISO TS 22002-4 certified
We eliminate food safety hazards in the manufacturing and servicing of food packaging, including standards for sanitation, environmental monitoring, and food defense.
Annual third-party audits
Annual Audits to ensure continuing ISO certification at all wash sites.
Employee training
Monthly food safety training for topics such as allergen control, food defense, biosecurity, raw material, and finished product storage.
Experience unmatched reliability
Our wash network—the largest in the United States—was designed with the distance between our clients and wash locations in mind. This translates to faster asset turns, less CO2 emissions, and impeccable service, keeping your operations running smoothly.
The industry's most stringent wash process
Tosca’s meticulously engineered wash cycle minimizes biological, chemical, and physical hazards throughout your supply chain with over 554 detailed procedures.
Open Loop
Closed Loop
Delivery of assets to supplier
Tosca reusables are delivered to a supplier—when and where they’re needed—to begin their journey When you pool with Tosca you only pay for an asset’s single trip through the supply chain including washing and servicing.
Assets shipped to distribution center
Reusable containers are shipped to a retail distribution center where they’re prepped and await transport to a store.
Product delivered to retail store
Reusables are stored neatly in the back room or cooler at a store. They can be unloaded or, in the case of retail-ready assets, they can be placed directly at point-of-sale in the store.
Sortation & return of assets
After being unloaded or used, reusables make the journey from the retail store to a salvage sort center where they’re joined by more Tosca reusables from other stores and sorted by type and size.
Sanitization & service at Tosca site
Tosca picks up the used reusables from the sort center and delivers them to one of our 18 service centers for an efficient process. They’re inspected, repaired if necessary, and washed under the industry’s most rigorous food safety program.
Pooling benefits beyond food safety
Right asset, right place, right time
Zero capital outlay, predictable pricing
Sustainability and bottom-line impact
The nation's best food safety program
Access to the latest product innovation
Steady supply, demand-based volumes
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Food Safety and Quality Reassurance FAQs
How to clean reusable containers to ensure they are safe for food?
Every Tosca container goes through a rigorous, multi-stage wash process at our certified service centers. This includes high-pressure washing and sanitizers at controlled temperatures to eliminate contaminants and pathogens.
Are Tosca facilities certified for food safety?
Yes, all of our service centers adhere to the highest global food safety standards and are independently audited and certified for ISO/TS 22002-4: Prerequisite programs on food safety— Part 4: Food packaging manufacturing, which is a robust collection of prerequisite programs to assist in controlling food safety hazards in the manufacture or servicing of food packaging. They are also certified as ISO 22000:2018 Food Safety Management Systems, which outlines
standards and practices for: sanitation; environmental monitoring; food defense.
What regulations apply to secondary food packaging and how do your containers comply?
Our containers are designed and maintained to meet the highest food safety standards, including regulations from the FDA and other global bodies. Our wash process is scientifically validated to remove pathogens and allergens, ensuring a clean surface for your products.
