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Paris and Berlin, 16 September 2024 – The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), The Consumer Goods Forum’s Coalition of Action on food safety, and IFS are pleased to announce that IFS Food Standard version 8 has successfully achieved recognition against GFSI Benchmarking Requirements v2020.
Please Note: The GFSI Steering Committee voted to grant recognition of the above mentioned standard on 12 September 2024. Any certificates issued against this standard prior to 12 September 2024 are not considered to be GFSI recognised.
For IFS Food Standard version 8, the recognition encompasses GFSI scopes:
- BIII – Pre-process Handling of Plant Products
- CO – Animal Primary Conversion
- CI – Processing of Perishable Animal Products
- CII – Processing of Perishable Plant Products
- CIII – Processing of Perishable Animal and Plant Products (Mixed Products)
- CIV – Processing of Ambient Stable Animal and Plant Products (Mixed Products)
- K – Production of (Bio) Chemicals and Bio-cultures Used as Food Ingredients or Processing Aids in Food Production.
Erica Sheward, GFSI Director said “We congratulate IFS on gaining GFSI recognition of their Food Standard v8. We commend IFS’s dedication to maintaining the rigorous standards necessary to ensure food safety across international markets.”
Stephan Tromp, IFS Managing Director said, “We are delighted with the continued recognition of IFS Food version 8 by GFSI. This confirms the high level at which IFS operates and provides the food industry with a globally accepted standard. At IFS, we are committed to food safety and process excellence. IFS Food Certification supports the relationship between industry, retail, wholesale, and food service. A growing number of companies worldwide embrace our unique approach to product and process certification.”
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About the GFSI Benchmarking Process
Benchmarking is a procedure by which a food safety Certification Programme Owner (CPO) has the programme(s) they have applied to have recognised by GFSI compared to the GFSI Benchmarking Requirements (BMRs) for evidence of alignment. The process is designed to be executed in an independent, unbiased, technically proficient and transparent manner. A programme is ‘recognised’ by GFSI when it has been verified that it meets all every single requirement of the GFSI BMRs, i.e. both procedurally and operationally. A GFSI benchmark leader assesses whether the application meets GFSI requirements, followed by a public consultation period that is open to all GFSI Stakeholders. Recognition of a programme is subject to an affirmative vote by the members of the GFSI Steering Committee. The full process is defined in the GFSI Benchmarking Requirements document.
About the Global Food Safety Initiative
The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI; the Coalition) is a CEO-led Coalition of Action from The Consumer Goods Forum, bringing together 42 retailers and manufacturers and an extended food safety community to help oversee food safety standards for businesses and help provide access to safe food for people everywhere. As one of the world’s largest networks to help achieve safe food, GFSI is committed to making food safety everyone’s business and the Coalition members are addressing challenges facing food safety systems in their supply chains and the markets they operate in, and are helping to raise the food safety bar globally. Its ambition is to strengthen and harmonise food safety systems so they are able to feed the growing, global population and develop markets that can deliver food safely, no matter where in the world the consumer is. To learn more, visit www.mygfsi.com.
For further information, contact the GFSI Team: gfsinfo@theconsumergoodsforum.com.
About IFS
IFS Management owned by the French retail association FCD and the German retail association HDE, develops globally recognized product quality and safety standards and development programs for companies within the food and consumer goods supply chain companies.
IFS comprises six different food and non-food standards and four development programs. These assess whether private label and branded product suppliers can deliver safe, quality products in line with regulations and customer specifications. In this way, IFS helps ensure that consumers can trust that the products they find on retail shelves are safe and of excellent quality. Please visit the website for more information: https://www.ifs-certification.com/en/.
