McCain Soy Oil FAQs

All suppliers of soy oil used in frying for McCain branded and owned branded products manufactured by McCain. If you supply a blended oil, please only report on the soy oil volumes within the oil in your declaration.

Suppliers are expected to provide the following information:

  • Volume of relevant product supplied, and volume of soy oil supplied
  • Product category
  • Their direct supplier (i.e., second tier to McCain)
  • Crushing facility
  • Country and region of soy oil origin
  • Name of first importer/ trader in supply chain, if not themselves
  • Certification status, including Chain of Custody system (with evidence as described in question 3).

Please submit the evidence as outline in the table below.

Commodity vDCF Route Evidence Points for vDCF
Soy Oil 1: Supply of 100% certified Segregated or Identity Preserved soy oil from FEFAC benchmark approved certification schemes such as Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) and Proterra. 1. RTRS / Proterra site certification

2. Do you have capability to provide RTRS/Proterra number on invoice?
2: Soy oil from a fully evidenced low-risk origin for deforestation and conversion. 1. SG certification scheme evidence showing origin (Donau Soja, USSAP, Organic) OR supplier declaration of origin
3:  From a supplier with vDCF sourcing (with a 2% tolerance such that >98% vDCF sourcing). 1. A formal letter from the soy oil supplier confirming compliance with the policy accompanied by the relevant supporting evidence.

The data submission portal will be open from 8th September 2025 – 26th September 2025.

All data is to be provided for the 2025 fiscal year, i.e. 1st July 2024 – 30th June 2025.

Only provide data for the products that are supplied to McCain as specified in question 1.  The data is relevant only to the specific McCain countries and should not relate to your overall company procurement practices. If you supply multiple countries for McCain, then you must separately declare each volume by country supplied by adding a new submission in the portal. Likewise, if you supplied volumes that have different certifications associated to them, you need to add a new submission and split the volumes accordingly.

If you have not supplied any of the products outlined in the scope in question 1 above, please declare to 3Keel via email to data.services@3keel.com why you are out of scope of this exercise. 3Keel will then confirm this directly with McCain.

You should only return one submission per business entity to us covering all your relevant sites and operations supplying McCain. If your business has multiple operation regions, please only report volumes supplied from the region listed in the portal under your log in name. Please reach out to data.services@3keel.com if you need any guidance. For example, if you have one entity in LATAM and one entity in Europe, you should submit one submission for each entity.

Recorded videos are available on the landing page of the platform. These will introduce the submission portal and provide an overview on how to complete your declaration.

3Keel is responsible for managing the collection, analysis, and reporting of this information to McCain. Please liaise with us for all questions regarding the type of data required. You can contact us using the following details: data.services@3keel.com, or to arrange a call with our team.

Data ownership remains with McCain, 3Keel are data processors only. All data submitted through this data collection will remain confidential.