Season by season, we fill our ponds with the best and cleanest ocean water available. Then we stock the healthy baby shrimp from certified hatcheries, using only juveniles from genetically unaltered, captive parents. We observe conservative density levels in our ponds and rigorous environmental safeguards for the habitat. Our intensive monitoring and process controls facilitate optimum growth and harvest timing.

Our feeds contain a mix of fish meal and vegetable protein, hormone free. Microbiological analysis is performed at harvest in order to certify product quality. Our batch number will identify the nursery, farm, pool, food, harvest date, microbiological results, and homogeneity of the lot. Diazteca never uses colorants or tri-polyphosphates. Size and weights are consistent and, defects are rigorously kept below three percent.

Our reputation is built on these premises. We guard our shrimp and our ponds carefully. Our people are trained in critical control point analysis and record keeping. The cold chain is maintained through harvest and our sanitary guidelines are the strictest in the industry. Customer quality audits are always welcome!

Diazteca’s shrimp is harvested, water chill-killed at 40 degree Fahrenheit, and immediately frozen in one of our nearby Diazteca’s approved HACCP certified processing facilities. Shrimp is then classified manually for quality supervision, assuring strong texture and clean color, and sizing is sorted mechanically, assuring that the counts-per-pound are uniform with even counts. We consistently observe HACCP standards at each step of the packing process. We can deliver to our U.S. facilities the very next day, providing tracking and traceability from the source to your warehouse.

Immediately right after the classification process, the shrimp is frozen through a plate freezer system which only takes four hours, thus, avoiding the formation of large crystals within the cell structure of the shrimp. This is very important because when those crystals are formed in a slower freezing system (say eight hours) they are sharp and big so when thawing the shrimp it bleeds out protein, juice, taste and money. So when thawing Diazteca’s shrimp you will always find very attractive cooking yields.

Diazteca sources additional shrimp volume from certified farmers and trawlers located in Northwest Mexico.