SPAIN – The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), a global food safety standards overseer, has during its annual conference addressed opportunities to combat issues such as climate change, food waste and plastic pollution while maintaining or enhancing safety and quality. The three days conference on the theme of Delivering Impact for Safe Sustainable Food was the first in-person GFSI Conference…
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GLOBAL – The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) has launched the first live pilot of its Benchmarking Requirements for Food Safety Auditors’ Professional Recognition Bodies (PRBs), subsequent to a fruitful consultation period. The new Benchmarking Requirements will be tested through a pilot with Exemplar Global, an industry leader in competency-based personnel certifications, who applied to become a GFSI-recognized PRB, and…
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SPAIN – The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), the world’s largest network to help achieve safe food for people everywhere, is set to bring together food safety experts from around the globe at the GFSI Conference in Barcelona from 29-31 March 2022, to discuss shared food safety challenges and find ways to ensure greater action and impact. The event will…
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JAPAN – The Global Food Safety Imitative (GFSI), a private food safety organization, and the Japan GAP Foundation (JGF), a private nonprofit organization developing and managing ASIAGAP and JGAP, have announced that ASIAGAP version 2.3 has successfully achieved recognition against GFSI’s Benchmarking Requirements Version 2020.1. ASIAGAP is a GAP certification program approved by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). It…
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GLOBAL – The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), a coalition of The Consumer Goods Forum, (CGF) has launched the first-ever set of benchmarking requirements for food safety auditor professional recognition bodies. The coalition aims to attract and retain food safety auditors by raising the profile of the profession and focusing entry requirements on competence. According to a statement from GFSI,…
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GLOBAL – The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) has announced the addition of 6 industry experts to its Steering Committee including several new retail members, a step that will strengthen GFSI’s governance and help add important voices to the development of GFSI’s global strategy. GFSI is a CEO-led Coalition of Action from The Consumer Goods Forum, bringing together 38 retailers…
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GLOBAL – The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) is opening a new stakeholder consultation for GLOBALG.A.P. (Good Agricultural Practices) Integrated Farm Assurance standards (IFA) version 5.4-GFS for Fruits & Vegetable, and Aquaculture, representing one of the final stages in the benchmarking process against the GFSI Benchmarking Requirements Version 2020.1. GLOBALG. A.P. refers to an internationally accepted set of farm standards…
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GLOBAL – The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), and International Featured Standards (IFS), a globally active organization providing trusted standards and services to co-operate within the supply chain to improve product integrity, have announced that IFS has successfully achieved recognition against GFSI’s Benchmarking Requirements Version 2020.1. The recognition includes IFS Food v7, IFS Broker v3.1, IFS Logistics v2.3 and IFS…
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GLOBAL – Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), now the Consumer Goods Forum Coalition of Action on food safety, has announced that four more companies, Develey, Kerry, Spinneys and Sysco, have joined its coalition. The four companies are now part of a unique group that is collaborating across borders to ensure safe food for everyone. The Coalition now totals 38 companies,…
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GLOBAL – The FSSC Foundation has announced that Food Safety System Certification (FSSC) 22000 Version 5.1 has now been recognized against Version 2020.1 of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Benchmarking Requirements. The GFSI’s Benchmarking Requirements Version 2020.1 is a revamp and follow-up on their Version 7.2 that resulted in additional requirements concerning Certification Program Owner governance. As one of…
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