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Official Launch: GFSI Global Markets Awards Now Open for Applications
The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) is pleased to announce the launch of its Global Markets Awards 2019. For this third edition, the Awards will recognise companies from across the globe that have leveraged GFSI's Global Markets Programme in an exemplary way on their journey towards a world-class food safety management system.
Award recipients will travel to the GFSI Conference in Nice, France from 25th-28th February 2019 , where they will benefit from networking opportunities and be recognised for their excellence throughout the conference week.
The Global Markets Awards are a unique opportunity to highlight the efforts of food business operators to scale up their capabilities to produce safe food, in line with the GFSI vision of
The Global Markets Programme, building a pathway to certification, was created seven years ago providing an unaccredited entry point for companies with a step-by-step programme designed to build capacity within production and manufacturing operations, setting out how companies with less sophisticated food safety management systems can meet the challenge of food safety, while simultaneously reducing hazards in global food supply chains and improving market access through certification to one of the GFSI-recognised certification programme owners.
Food companies, farms or facilities can apply by demonstrating their food safety journey and illustrating their use of the Global Markets Programme to create an enabling environment for safer food.
The Awards intend to reflect the geographic diversity of the Global Markets Programme's implementation, with categories for Africa , Asia , Latin America and the rest of the world, as well as an honourary award for France , as the host country of the GFSI Conference 2019.
A Selection Committee was formed for the 2018 edition of the Awards, composed of experts from diverse backgrounds, with representatives from both the public and private sector and spanning four continents ( Nigeria , Kenya , Mexico , Ukraine , USA and Japan ). The Selection Committee is chaired by Mike Taylor , former Deputy Commissioner to the US Food and Drug Administration.
The Selection Committee will be paying special attention to food safety culture and market access.
GFSI is pleased to partner with greenfence, who is generously sponsoring these significant awards for the third year running.
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Awards applications close on 26th September 2018 at 6.00pm Central European time. To learn more and apply, visit http://awards.mygfsi.com/
The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) brings together key actors of the food industry to collaboratively drive continuous improvement in food safety management systems around the world. With a vision of Safe food for consumers everywhere, food industry leaders created GFSI in 2000 to find collaborative solutions to collective concerns, notably to reduce food safety risks, audit duplication and costs while building trust throughout the supply chain. The GFSI community works on a volunteer basis and is composed of the world's leading food safety experts from retail, manufacturing and food service companies, as well as international organisations, governments, academia and service providers to the global food industry. GFSI is powered by The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), a global industry network working to support Better Lives Through Better Business. http://www.mygfsi.com