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Key Considerations for Food Supply Chain Sustainability Assurance Programs
This year’s GFSI theme, Delivering Impact for Safe Sustainable Food, sparked an interesting question for me: How can any company, regardless of circumstances, magnify its ability to provide safe and sustainable food? One solution that contributes to this goal is a supply chain sustainability assurance program (SCSAP). Two primary components must come together to ensure […]
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Sustainable Food Safety in a Changing Labor Market
Many of our conversations about sustainability focus on natural resources, and rightfully so. We have an obligation to care for the environment in which we live, especially when that environment is growing and raising our food. However, the last several years have shown it is also crucial to consider the sustainability of the systems that […]
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Advancing Supply Chain Visibility to Reach New Levels of Food Safety
At the heart of today’s food safety and supply chain challenges is a lack of visibility. Because of paper-based record-keeping and fragmented data systems, achieving real-time supply chain visibility has been difficult. When data is not digitized and accurate, it cannot be easily exchanged among trading partners, creating inefficient supply chains. With continued supply chain […]
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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Pest Control and Organic Facilities
Pest control in organic certified facilities requires a specialist approach to take account of the organic nature of the commodity. Just as non-organic facilities need to be protected from pests, so do organic certified facilities. Certified organic facilities are just protected in a different way. You need a partner that knows how to create an […]
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What the Food Industry Can Learn from Space — and Vice Versa
Transdisciplinary scientist and artist Angelo Vermeulen shares a preview of his GFSI 2022 keynote In 2013, I was crew commander of a Mars mission simulation on the high slopes of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano — the first mission under NASA’s Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation project, or HI-SEAS. Five other people and I lived […]
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GFSI Opens Stakeholder Consultation for Canadian Grain Commission
Update 5th April 2022: this consultation is now closed. GFSI is opening a new stakeholder consultation for the Canadian Grain Commission Food Safety Identity Preserved Quality Management Standard (CGC FSIP-STAN) 1.1.0 issued on 23 September 2021. The stakeholder consultation is one of the critical steps in the assessment process against the GFSI Technical Equivalence Requirements […]
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Meet the World’s Top Food Manufacturers at GFSI 2022
Barcelona, the host city for this year’s GFSI Conference, is known for its traditional food producers, whose olive oil, cured pork and wine are coveted far beyond Spain’s borders. What better place for the world’s leading food manufacturers to discuss ways to ensure the safety of their products as they move through the global supply […]
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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 […]
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GFSI Opens Stakeholder Consultation for USDA AMS
UPDATE: 23rd March 2022: Please note that this Consultation is now closed. GFSI is opening a new stakeholder consultation for the USDA AMS Harmonized GAP Plus+ version 3.0, issued on 8th February 2021. The stakeholder consultation is one of the critical steps in the assessment process against the GFSI Technical Equivalence Requirements Version 2020. The […]
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What Can GFSI Do for Your Company?
An invitation to the GFSI Conference from a retail food safety leader. What benefits can your company gain from collaborating with GFSI? Pierre de Ginestel, director of health and quality at the multinational retailer Auchan, shared how important the organisation is for his company’s food safety strategy in a recent interview ahead of the GFSI […]
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Leaders from Across Food Industry to Convene at GFSI Conference to Accelerate Accessibility of Safe Food for People Everywhere
PARIS, 17 February – The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), part of The Consumer Goods Forum and the world’s largest network to help achieve safe food for people everywhere, is set to unite food safety experts from around the globe at the GFSI Conference in Barcelona from 29-31 March. Urgent action is needed to meet […]
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What is the role of science in food safety, at GFSI and on stage in Barcelona?
“When we think of the future of the food safety ecosystem, what kind of impact can we predict for science and its future applications?” asks David Crean — chair of GFSI’s Science and Technology Advisory Group, former vice president of Mars and a veteran food scientist — in his newly released GFSI Blog guest post. […]
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GFSI Stage Spotlight: Meet the Science and Technology Advisory Group
When we think of the future of the food safety ecosystem, what kind of impact can we predict for science and its future applications? Which scientific insights and trends are moving the needle? How will scientific developments influence food safety on the ground and to what extent will they redesign the ecosystem as a whole? […]
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GFSI 2022: A First Glimpse at the Programme
As the GFSI Conference approaches, we are pleased to share the first official programme for the forthcoming event in Barcelona. We invite you to explore the online programme to preview some of the topics our speakers will discuss during three days of conversation around the most pressing issues in food safety. In seven plenaries and […]
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