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Press Release
10 Sep 2021
Governance
GFSI Welcomes New Food Safety Experts to Its Steering Committee
PARIS, 10th September 2021 – The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI; the Coalition), The Consumer Goods Forum’s Coalition of Action on food safety, is pleased to announce that 6 industry experts have been added to its Steering Committee. The additions, including adding several new retail members, will strengthen GFSI’s governance and help add important voices […]
Press Release
02 Sep 2021
GFSI
GFSI Opens New Stakeholder Consultation for GLOBALG.A.P.
GFSI is opening a new stakeholder consultation for GLOBALG.A.P. Integrated Farm Assurance standards version 5.4-GFS for Fruits & Vegetable, and Aquaculture. The consultation represents one of the final stages in the benchmarking process against the GFSI Benchmarking Requirements Version 2020.1. This new step complements FoodPLUS GmbH, who owns GLOBALG.A.P., and their previous track record in […]
Press Release
31 Aug 2021
Benchmarking
IFS – International Featured Standards Gains GFSI Recognition for IFS Food, IFS Broker, IFS Logistics and IFS PACsecure
PARIS and BERLIN, 31st August 2021 — The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), The Consumer Goods Forum’s Coalition of Action on food safety, and IFS, a globally active organisation providing trusted standards and services to co-operate within the supply chain to improve product integrity, are pleased to announce that IFS has successfully achieved recognition against […]
Press Release
19 Aug 2021
Benchmarking
Global Red Meat Standard Gains GFSI Recognition for Animal Conversion and Processing of Perishable Animal Products
PARIS and COPENHAGEN, 19th August 2021 — The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), The Consumer Goods Forum’s Coalition of Action on food safety, and Danish Agriculture & Food Council are pleased to announce that its Global Read Meat Standard (GRMS), a product standard developed for the meat industry, has successfully achieved recognition against GFSI’s Benchmarking […]
Press Release
16 Aug 2021
Governance
GFSI Welcomes Four New Members into Coalition of Action
Develey, Kerry, Spinneys and Sysco Showcase Commitment to Delivering Safe Food to People Everywhere PARIS, 16th August 2021 – Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI; the Coalition), The Consumer Goods Forum’s Coalition of Action on food safety, is pleased to announce that four more companies have joined its ranks. The four companies – Develey, Kerry, Spinneys […]
Press Release
30 Jul 2021
Recognition
FSSC22000 version 5.1 Gains GFSI Recognition against the GFSI Benchmarking Requirements version 2020.1
News Update
22 Jul 2021
GFSI Race To The Top Priorities
Request for Proposals – GFSI Certificate Platform
UPDATE: 27th September 2021: Please note that this we are no longer accepting proposals. The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), a Coalition of Action from the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), is calling for proposals from interested SaaS providers to support the development of a certificate platform. GFSI announced in March 2020 the “Race To The […]
News Update
20 Jul 2021
Call for Participation for the GFSI Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Local Group
The applications are closed. Visit our local groups page if you want to learn more about our work. GFSI is actively seeking food safety experts to help advance the work of its GFSI Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Local Group. GFSI relies heavily on its regional networks via the GFSI Local Groups to […]
News Update
13 Jul 2021
Food Safety Technology
Call for Participation – Science and Technology Advisory Group (STAG)
UPDATE: 12th August 2021: Please note that this Consultation is now closed. The Global Food Safety initiative (GFSI), a Coalition of Action of The Consumer Goods Forum, is seeking academic experts to join our newly established Science and Technology Advisory Group (STAG). Food systems are more and more recurrently and severely challenged by food safety […]
News Update
13 Jul 2021
Steering Committee Meeting Summary- 1st July, 2021
The 1st July meeting started with a progress update from the Governance Sub-Committee on the implementation of GFSI’s Code of Ethical Conduct. Erica noted that the first step involved GFSI appointing ambassadors in all GFSI groups and committees to ensure that members abided by the Code and a dedicated email address would be established to […]
News Update
08 Jul 2021
Consultation
New Stakeholder Consultation Opens: The Global Red Meat Standard
GFSI is delighted to announce the opening of another stakeholder consultation, one of the final stages in the benchmarking process against the GFSI Benchmarking Requirements Version 2020.1. for The Global Red Meat Standard version 6.1. Indeed the Danish Agriculture & Food Council has maintained GFSI recognition for many years and we are very pleased about their continued commitment […]
News Update
08 Jul 2021
New Stakeholder Consultation Open: Freshcare
UPDATE: 6th August 2021: Please note that this Consultation is now closed. GFSI is opening a new stakeholder consultation on the outcome of a benchmarking assessment against the GFSI Benchmarking Requirements Version 2020.1. Freshcare, who first achieved GFSI recognition in February 2020, carefully prepared edition 4.2 of their food safety and quality standard to maintain recognition as […]
News Update
08 Jul 2021
New Stakeholder Consultation Open: IFS
GFSI is very pleased to announce the opening of another stakeholder consultation, one of the final stages in the benchmarking process against the GFSI Benchmarking Requirements Version 2020.1. The International Featured Standards submitted 4 of their standards for re-benchmarking: IFS Food v.7, IFS Logistics v. 2.2, IFS Broker v. 3 and IFS PACsecure v.1.1. IFS has […]
Press Release
07 Jul 2021
GFSI
GFSI Welcomes the Return of the China Focus Day, as Regional Impact Takes Centre Stage
BEIJING and PARIS, 7th July 2021 – The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) Coalition of Action on food safety, Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI; the Coalition) is pleased to announce the return of the GFSI China Focus Day on 19th July 2021. The event, celebrating its 10th anniversary, will welcome some 300 delegates to the Four […]
News Update
06 Jul 2021
BRCGS for Storage and Distribution issue 4 gains recognition against GFSI’s Benchmarking Requirements Version 2020.1
PARIS and London, 6th July 2021 — The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), The Consumer Goods Forum’s Coalition of Action on food safety, and BRCGS, a global consumer protection organisation that provides supply chain confidence through its suite of Global Standards, are pleased to announce that BRCGS for Storage and Distribution issue 4 has also […]