Manufacturing is based on trust and contracts.
Before you agree to work together with a manufacturing plant, there will be legal agreements and lots of documentation – so for them to copy a recipe and make it themselves will almost certainly break many clauses in the contract, and leave them open to legal repercussions.
Pretty much nothing save for any caveats in any contracts you sign. Recipes aren’t patentable. What is patentable is any novel process you invented to produce the sauce. The other company just has to suddenly decide to drop their current contract packing business plan and decide to compete with you. Possible but it’s not a very good risk/reward proposition.
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