Hyundai Green Food said on the 5th that starting this month it will introduce, for the first time in the industry, low-carbon certified pork ham for institutional catering.
The initial volume is 30 tons a year, about 10% of the total pork ham Hyundai Green Food uses for institutional catering over a year.
Low-carbon pork is pork produced at "low-carbon livestock product farms" certified by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the Korea Institute for Animal Products Quality Evaluation.
Low-carbon livestock product farms are operated in eco-friendly ways, such as using feed with reduced protein content to cut greenhouse gas emissions and utilizing livestock by-products as eco-friendly energy like biogas. Low-carbon certification is granted only to farms that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 10% compared with the average for conventional pork during the breeding and production process.
Since 2021, Hyundai Green Food has operated "Green Day," offering low-carbon meals twice a month at about 600 of roughly 650 institutional catering business sites nationwide. Starting this month, the company also plans to offer, once a month at those sites, menu items using low-carbon pork.
A Hyundai Green Food official said, "We will gradually expand the introduction volume in line with increased production of low-carbon pork and step up related menu development," adding, "We will establish ourselves as corporations that provide healthy food that positively influences dietary habits."