Food Safety - Food Certifications - What Certification is Best for Your Company?

Since the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 became live in 2011 and the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) began gaining significant ground since 2012, certification is now key to gain and maintain clients as well as ensure compliance. These requirements and mandates push every organization to ensure that they are up to date on their food safety programs. With the associated costs related to oversights and recalls, certification to food safety is an important economic aspect of any organization.

This session is designed for food manufacturers, packagers and handlers and is focused towards helping both domestic and foreign entities in ensuring compliance with being secure and remaining compliant to pertinent regulations through gaining certification. This session will cover and touch the numerous different standards within the global marketplace: IFS PACsecure, Global Aquaculture Alliance Seafood Processing Standard, GLOBALG.A.P. Integrated Farm Assurance Scheme, ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, Global Red Meat Standard (GRMS), CanadaGAP, SQF Code, BRC Global Standard for Food Safety, IFS Food Standard, etc.

Why should you Attend: This webinar will focus on multiple certifications that are available for food safety and how to choose the right certification to pair with the needs of the organization. It will also provide the high level fundamentals that are needed to be in place in order to safely manufacture, package, and or handle food products to become certified. It will cover a broad range of documentation for: production types, facilities, and the transportation of goods. This webinar will highlight the geographical and legislative aspects of the certifications as to why they may be needed and/or their overall benefits.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Brief overview of Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), Brief overview of Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), highlighting how certifications can ensure compliance.
• Overview of the requirements spelled out by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) and what certifications meet the guidelines.
• What certification is appropriate for different food industry sectors.
• Who is gaining what certifications depending on their geographic location.
• What FDA expects from manufacturers and handlers.
• What standards are being pushed by the food industry itself to ensure proper food safety through the entire production chain.
• Keeping recalls to a minimum for less negative exposure within the market place as well as consumer ratings.

• Regulatory affairs
• Processors, packers, and or handlers of food products
• Infrastructure
• Documentation
• Food technologists
• Food safety
• Food inspectors
• Marketing
• QA/ QC