The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) collaborates with the world’s leading consumer goods companies, across borders and barriers to help ensure safe food for people everywhere.
GFSI is a Coalition of Action from The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), bringing together food retailers and manufacturers from across the CGF membership and an extended food safety community to oversee third-party food safety standards for food business operators globally.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) an estimated 600 million people – almost 1 in 10 – fall ill after eating contaminated food each year. GFSI Coalition members are working together to address collective challenges they are facing in their supply chains and in the markets they operate, helping to raise the food safety bar globally.
Everyone has the right to access safe food which is why the work of GFSI is critical to every community across the globe. As one of the world’s largest food safety networks, GFSI is committed to making food safety everyone’s business.
GFSI has two decades of experience in supporting the industry on its food safety journey. Today, as a Coalition of Action, GFSI continues to bring together key actors of the food industry to collaboratively drive continuous improvement in food safety management systems around the world. Our 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.
By focusing our work on benchmarking and harmonisation, capability building and public-private partnerships, our vision is for a world in which:
This vision will enable the industry to safely build trust – with consumers and partners along the supply chain – at a time when demand for the world’s food supply continues to grow and when consumers are demanding more information, more choice and more authenticity in the food they buy.
While many individual companies and organisations share the goal of delivering safe food, our focus is on enabling the extensive collaboration and dialogues that are so critical to achieving it – involving food retailers and manufacturers, suppliers, the agriculture industry, academics, governments and many others across the world.
Underpinning the actions of the Coalition is the Race to the Top Framework, which proposes an enhancement in the oversight of the GFSI ecosystem with the aim of improving trust, transparency and confidence in GFSI-recognised certification and audit outcomes. Additionally, GFSI is seeking to stay true to its core purpose as a benchmarking and harmonisation organisation responsible for the ‘what’ – not the ‘how’ – of food safety.
This redefining of our strategy – based on extensive consultations – is supported by a Coalition Charter and will help our members to collaborate at scale, and with other key stakeholders within the GFSI Community, from farm to fork to ensure transparency in the work we are doing and trust in the outcomes we are achieving.
At our core, we are harmonising and driving improvements in food safety certification programmes; building food safety capabilities across the global food supply chain; and providing a platform for public-private partnerships, including governments, food safety regulators, and IGOs. We also work to ensure best-practice knowledge sharing across our network to advance food safety.
Benchmarking & Harmonisation
Capability Building
Public-Private Collaboration
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