Weber Flavors: Architects of Flavor Since 1902
We Build Custom Flavors One Customer at a Time
Established in 1902, Edgar A. Weber & Company has
been family-owned and operated for over 100 years.
Our continuing philosophy is our commitment to service and
to quality, to competitive pricing policies, responsiveness to
our customers, and the well-being of our employees.
Weber’s Policy…Our company’s policy has not changed over the past one hundred years. We will respond to your flavoring needs as quickly as possible with the highest quality products and ingredients available. Old-fashioned values in a
changing world: they still prove to be a reliable way to do business!
If You Come, We Will Build It...Consistently, E.A. Weber & Company has been a creative leader in developing flavors for all facets of the food and beverage industries.
Weber Flavors historically specialized in vanilla, “sweet”, dairy, and natural fruit flavors. Our product line, now featuring an extensive and ever-growing variety of flavors to meet rising trends and customer needs, is well-known in the food industry for its consistent superior quality.
We employ our mastery of science to construct your flavor using only the finest ingredients. By working one-on-one with you from the very start, we help you build just the right flavor system for your application.
Whether this requires the artful design of a one-of-a-kind flavor, or a guided selection from Weber’s extensive library of custom flavors, you can count on us to meet all of your needs and specifications.
As a family of flavor architects, Weber is devoted to the precision of our product, fairness of our pricing, and satisfaction of our customers. The result of all this? We not only build quality flavors, we build quality relationships.
Weber’s Location…Centrally located in Wheeling, Illinois, encompassing over 100,000 square feet, our facilities are fully-equipped with state of the art laboratories, offices, wet and dry production facilities, refrigerated storage, and raw material and finished-goods warehouses.
We have national sales staff based in convenient locations across the United States and Canada.
Whol-Bean™ PURE VANILLA EXTRACTS
Only the very finest vanilla beans are chosen for E.A. Weber & Company’s Premium Vanilla Extracts. Currently, Weber Flavors offers Bourbon, Indonesian, and Tahitian extracts, and a wide variety of blended bean products including:
- Vanilla-Vanillin Extracts- Natural Vanilla Flavors (WONF/MWNI) - Natural & Artificial Vanilla Flavors - Artificial Vanilla Flavors
Liquid & Dry Flavors…
Weber Flavors’ extensive and ever-growing product line of both liquids and powders is designed to meet rising trends and customer needs. Our exclusive spray drying process allows us to rapidly customize a flavor for your application. We manufacture:
- Natural Flavors (WONF/MWNI) - Natural & Artificial Flavor Blends- Artificial Flavors
for these product categories:
- Frozen Desserts - Baked Goods- Cordials & other Alcoholic Beverages- Non-alcoholic Beverages- Still Beverages (flavored water, juice drinks, bar-mixes)
- Dairy Beverages- Dry Mix Beverages- Confectionery products- Nutritional Products
Simply Natural® ORGANIC CERTIFIED FLAVORSCertified through the Midwest Organic Servicing Agency (MOSA), our organic flavors and extracts combine the best of nature’s offerings to make your product burst with pure flavor. (Available as liquid only):
- Pure Vanilla Extracts- Natural Citrus Flavors- Natural Fruit Flavors
Liquid Color Solutions & Color Blends…Many of our flavors can be formulated “with added artificial colors”, eliminating a step in the production of food products. Liquid FD&C Colors or Color Blends are available separately if you wish to customize your color system.
- FD&C Color Blends- Annatto- Caramel - Turmeric - Beet Colors- Other select Natural Colors
HoMaid™ SPECIALTY PRODUCTSPremium ice cream deserves premium ingredients! Weber Flavors manufactures specialty Waves™ and bases. Many products are ambient shippable and require refrigeration only upon arrival.
- WAVE™ Products (variegates for frozen dessert applications)
- PUREE Bases (for frozen dessert applications)- Flavored SYRUPS
Certified Safe & High QualityThanks to the hard work of our devoted employees, Weber Flavors holds SQF Level 3 Certification. Overseen by the Global Food Safety Initiative, SQF is a globally recognized food management system used to certify companies in the food industry. The only certification of its kind for manufacturers like us, SQF holds companies to the highest industry standards.
GMP and HAACP programs, rigorous documentation standards, and strict quality control measures are integrated throughout the production process to ensure cleanliness, quality, consistency, and standardization.
Our products are also Kosher Certified through the Chicago Rabbinical Council (CRC) providing an extra measure of quality control and customer satisfaction.
Weber Samples are available!
Please call our toll-free number (800) 558-9078, or visit our website at weberflavors.com
Summary of Our Product Line
A Technical Bulletin from E.A. Weber
Weber Flavors R&D Expertise
Development CapabilitiesOur team of Flavor Chemists and Applications
Technologists are ready to help you achieve the
exact flavor system you need for your product. Our
team includes Certified Flavorists and Certified Food
Scientists ready and willing to help you build your
product from scratch, or to simply top-note it with just
the right flavor from our extensive product library.
Sample RequestsWhen a simple sample is all you need, our experts
select the best options from our library for your
particular application, recommends usage rates,
supplies needed documentation, and gets that 4oz
sample bottle into your hands as quickly as possible.
Product Development• Flavor Creation – With your detailed descriptions
and parameters, our Certified Flavorists can build a
brand new flavor for your product from scratch
• Matchwork – Have a flavor you like, but need help
making it work in your product? Using advanced
analytical methods (GC-MS, HPLC, etc) and sensory
analysis, our Flavorists can match almost any flavor
you need.
Last revision: 06/28/2017
Product Development• Labeling Revisions – Different markets have stringent requirements for flavoring and solvent
ingredients. Our R&D is experienced in formulating for International markets, Whole Foods
Compliance, Organic Certification, and others. We can review existing items for compliance,
and make necessary changes to meet your labeling needs.
• Base Testing – Our Applications team can test flavors in unflavored beverage, dessert, baked
goods, and other bases in order to help choose the appropriate flavor system and establish a
recommended usage rate.
• Prototypes – Utilizing our Pilot Plant and benchtop production equipment, our Applications
team can help you build a basic prototype and flavor system for your product. Our Armfield
Microprocessing Unit and attached homogenizer can mimic your fluid pasteurization system to
help scale your product from benchtop to full production.
If you come, we will build it…
Visit us and make use of our new Test Kitchen and Sensory Testing facilities. When time is of
the essence, there’s no faster way to build a flavor system than to have you come directly to us.
Work one-on-one with our flavorists and applications technologists, and in just a day or two,
we can test and revise a flavor system many times under your guidance.
*Price targets and estimated annual volumes are required to utilize our R&D resources.
Edgar A. Weber & Company549 Palwaukee DriveWheeling, IL 60090weberflavors.com
Flavor samples available by request Toll-free: (800) 558-9078
Direct: (847) 215-1980E-mail: [email protected]
A Technical Bulletin from E.A. Weber
A Technical Bulletin from E.A. Weber
Weber Flavors Regulatory Expertise
Product Specific Documents:• Specification• Allergen• Nutritional• GMO Statement• Gluten Statement• Safety Data Sheet• Micro Specifications• Kosher• Product Guarantee• Certificate of Origin• Proposition 65 Statement• Halal Suitability• % Range Breakdown• Certification of Natural Flavor• Vegan / Vegetarian• Whole Foods Compliance (and other retail)• Flavor Ingredient Data Sheet (TTB FIDS)• International Compliance• Organic Certificate
Regulatory Expertise:• TTB Submission Manager• Organic Submission Manager• Ingredient Legend labeling recommendations• Supplier Questionnaires• Supplier Requirements reviews• SQF Practitioner back-up• Non-GMO Project Submissions
Weber Flavors Regulatory Expertise
FDA Flavor Regulation:• Weber Flavors’ products are manufactured under the regulations and guidelines of the
U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Specific applicable parts of those regulations may include, but are not limited to, the following sections in the US Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21: Part 101.22 Labeling Requirements, Part 172 Direct Food Additives, Part 182 & 184 GRAS Substances.
• Our products contain ingredients which are approved for use within FDA regulations or are listed as Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) on a reliable published industry association list, primarily determined by the Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association (FEMA). Weber Flavors uses all Food Grade ingredients.
• We operate by Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s), which are enforced by the FDA. Examples of GMP’s include hand washing, no jewelry, no eating or drinking within production or warehouse areas, etc. GMP’s should be practiced at any food manufacturing plant. Additionally, we operate under a HACCP Plan and follow the guidelines for food safety as required by HACCP.
• Facilities producing anything going directly into the food chain must be FDA registered per the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 (Bioterrorism Act).
• The 8 Major Food Allergens as defined by FDA’s Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004 (FALCPA) as: Milk, Eggs, Tree Nuts, Peanuts, Wheat, Soybeans Crustacean Shellfish, and Fish. Weber Flavors has all of the Big 8 allergens in the facility except Crustacean Shellfish and Fish. Weber Flavors has an allergen control procedure.
• There is no FDA definition of “Natural”. Therefore, the use of this word is up to the finished food manufacturer’s determination. FDA has defined “Natural Flavor” per 21 CFR 101.22(a)(3): The term natural flavor or natural flavoring means the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional.
• Finished product ingredient legend labeling recommendations for Natural, MWNI (Made with Natural Ingredients) or WONF (With Other Natural Flavors) are as follows:
To the best of our knowledge and belief, our product can be declared as ‘Natural Flavor’ in the ingredient legend of the finished food product, per the FDA regulations for the labeling of flavorings in food products (21 CFR 101.22 (h)).
The non-flavoring ingredients (excluding colors) in our product do not require labeling in the ingredient legend of the finished food product since they are considered incidental additives, without functional effect in the final product (21 CFR 101.22 (h)(2)).
Last revision: 09/06/2018
Flavor samples available by request Toll-free: (800) 558-9078
Direct: (847) 215-1980E-mail: [email protected]
Edgar A. Weber & Company549 Palwaukee DriveWheeling, IL 60090weberflavors.com
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