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News Update
12 Mar 2021
Public-private Partnership
GFSI-led Webinar Opens the Door to 2021 World Food Safety Day Celebrations
The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Codex Alimentarius Commission Secretariat gathered online for a conversation that centred on public-private partnerships, a form of collaboration that is essential to securing food safety globally. Erica Sheward, GFSI Director at The Consumer […]
News Update
25 Mar 2021
GFSI Conference
2021 GFSI Conference: Innovating for the Future, Learning from the Past
PARIS, 25th March 2021 — The 2021 GFSI Conference closed this afternoon after three days of productive discussion around the theme Food Safety: Rethink, Reset, Recharge. This year’s edition marked the 20th anniversary of the Global Food Safety Initiative’s premier annual event and its first time taking place online. Hosted on a purpose-built […]
News Update
10 May 2022
Governance
GFSI SteerCo Meeting Summary: Stronger Relationships, Stronger Food Safety Systems
Trust is undisputedly a fundamental ingredient in the recipe for food safety progress, so it comes as no surprise that it held such a prominent place at the recent GFSI Conference. The topic of trust was the guest of honour, referenced throughout the conference week in nearly every plenary speech, every breakout session and every […]
News Update
01 Jun 2020
GFSI
“Ensure it’s safe” #WorldFoodSafetyDay 2020
The second-ever UN World Food Safety Day, coordinated by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, is just around the corner on Sunday 7th June. This week, we are sharing a video every day – each with its own call to action – and we invite you to participate! As we all navigate a new normal, safeguarding consumers and global supply chains […]
News Update
24 Feb 2022
GFSI Conference
Can the Food Industry Help Protect World Health?
Opportunities for public-private partnerships abound at the 2022 GFSI Conference. What role does the food industry have in protecting public health — including the health of the world’s most vulnerable people? At the GFSI Conference in Barcelona next month, representatives of the World Health Organization will offer some answers to this question and invite food […]
News Update
07 May 2020
Public-private Partnership
Food Safety is Everyone’s Business | Observe World Food Safety Day with GFSI and Codex!
The relationship between GFSI and the Codex Alimentarius Commission, the body responsible for developing and implementing the joint WHO/FAO food standards programme, is close and long-standing. The GFSI Benchmarking Requirements are based in part on Codex standards, and Codex leaders frequently appear on the GFSI Conference speaker list. At the 2020 conference, one […]
Blog
10 Apr 2021
GFSI Conference
Food Safety: an Opportunity to Rethink, Reset and Recharge
Around the world, an estimated 600 million people fall ill after eating contaminated food each year, and concerns over food safety have been intensified by COVID-19. Yet the food industry has responded with brilliant commitment to the challenges of the pandemic – and it was inspiring to hear so many examples of this at last […]
News Update
18 Nov 2021
Public-private Partnership
The Government-to-Business (G2B) Meetings | 2021 and the Look Ahead
For the sixth consecutive year, GFSI hosted the annual Government-to-Business (G2B) Meeting in 2021. The G2B Meeting is an extraordinarily unique platform, where governments and intergovernmental organisations come together with the private sector and discuss common opportunities to advance food safety around the globe. Since its genesis in 2016, the G2B Meeting has grown into […]
News Update
20 Dec 2021
GFSI News Update: 2021 Achievements, Stakeholder Appreciation and Seasons Greetings
In the last GFSI update of 2021, GFSI Director Erica Sheward recaps some of the year’s achievements, noting that “the list is pretty huge.” The year started out with the GFSI Conference making a successful move to virtual and GFSI itself being relaunched as a Coalition of Action of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF). In […]
Press Release
29 Mar 2022
GFSI Conference
Global Food Safety Initiative Calls for Faster Action on Sustainable Development Goals
PARIS and BARCELONA 29th March 2022: The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) today launches a campaign to collate the views of the food safety community on the action needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals linked to food safety. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are designed to be a ‘blueprint to achieve a better […]
News Update
27 Apr 2023
GFSI
GFSI Conference 2023 Day 2 Roundup: Future Focused, Innovation Rich
ATLANTA, 26 April 2023 —Winds of change: Food safety future hinges on innovation, public-private partnerships, working together. As food safety challenges mount, stakeholders in the global food safety space will need to work together in new ways to address them. Those challenges were tackled at Day 2 of the GFSI Conference in Atlanta with an […]
News Update
27 Apr 2023
Resumen de la Conferencia GFSI 2023: Enfocado en el Futuro, Rico en Innovación
ATLANTA, 26 de Abril, 2023 — Vientos de cambio: el futuro de la inocuidad alimentaria depende de la innovación, las asociaciones público-privadas y el trabajo conjunto. A medida que aumentan los desafíos de la inocuidad de los alimentos, las partes interesadas en el espacio mundial de la inocuidad de los alimentos deberán trabajar juntos en […]
News Update
05 Sep 2023
Technical Equivalence
GFSI Steering Committee Sets Course for Change
PARIS, 1 September 2023 – The GFSI Steering Committee meeting in April recharged its mission to bring new life to the Race to the Top. The framework dominated the two-day meeting held prior to the GFSI Conference in Atlanta. Steerco discussion looked at ways to refine priorities for 2023 and beyond, including engagement with CPOs […]