Environmental responsibility and sustainability

Beneficial Germs complies with the guidelines established by the General Environmental Law 25,675, CAA and Municipal Ordinance No. 6268/20, according to its territorial location. For the proper management of waste and effluents, the guidelines of the Standard Operating Processes established by the company are followed.

We also have a Manual of Good Practices on environmental management, whose main objective is to minimize the impacts of gaseous and liquid emissions and plant waste on the external environment. We implement periodic internal audits of work conditions and environment following a Program of Measurements and records in Safety and Hygiene.

The use of beneficial microorganisms in the agricultural sector presents great benefits by replacing the use of agrochemicals and improving processes in a sustainable way. Likewise, one of the aspects of sustainability in the development of our products is to offer biotechnological solutions based on native strains, which improves the performance and adaptation offered by native microorganisms with respect to allochthonous flora.

Quality and safety policies

Effective hygiene control is essential in order to avoid harmful consequences and damage caused by possible food spoilage, for animal health and welfare, while reducing socioeconomic, zoosanitary and environmental problems. The inputs produced must not represent in any case a risk for animal health or put into question the safety of the food intended for them. Therefore, we carry out the necessary actions tending to minimize and/or avoid the possible risk of contamination of the final products.

Innovation, Development, Research and Transfer Policies

Our developments are certified by the “ARGENTINE BIOPRODUCT” SEAL granted by the SECRETARIAT OF FOOD AND BIOECONOMY OF THE SECRETARIAT OF GOVERNMENT OF AGROINDUSTRY of the MINISTRY OF PRODUCTION AND LABOR of the Nation. This guarantees our commitment to the development of sustainability principles for the BG Inoculants and Additives bioproduct line.

We were also awarded the CERTIFICATE OF INTEREST “Argentine Bioproduct”, in the biobased content and research categories, for our prototype development of recombinant lactase production. This was produced within a framework of associative work and technological linkage with CINDEFI, CONICET and UNLP.

Setting up an in-house R&D&I structure, supported by a history of association with the scientific-technological sectors of our country, as fundamental pillars for sustainable socioeconomic development, allows us to promote central actions to qualitatively improve the capabilities of our own specialized human resources.

Equity, diversity and violence-free environment

Sustainable development is that which combines economic growth, environmental balance and social equity. The search for equity and equality has been consolidated as an unavoidable objective of sustainable development through the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Our company seeks to be part of organizations committed to actively promoting policies and practices of equal opportunities and treatment from a gender perspective and a human rights approach, in the workplace. The objective of mainstreaming the gender perspective in the organization and its socio-productive framework implies its systematic integration into the structure, in the policies, processes and procedures, in its culture, its ways of seeing and doing.

Adherence to the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs), developed through a multilateral consultative process and under the aegis of the United Nations Organization, UN Women, and the United Nations Global Compact (UN Global Compact). Beneficial Germs is the first MicroSME in the agricultural sector, 100% nationally owned, based in our territory, that is committed to following these Principles as a guide for the actions we can take in our workplace, in business and in the community, to empower women and benefit our companies and society as a whole.

Signing of the Commitment Act with the Ministry of Productive Development of the Nation, within the framework of the Zero Tolerance Campaign for Violence Against Women, with the consequent development of a Gender Equality Action Plan.