1. GFSI Certification What Top Management Needs to Know

2. GFSI What Top Management Needs to Know
Learn about GFSI certification schemes
Why they are of interest you
What the schemes require
Choices of GFSI recognized schemes
Steps to certification
How tools.com by Vinca, LLC can help

3. What is GFSI? Global Food Safety Initiative is a global organization
GFSI was established in May 2000:
To ensure confidence in the delivery of safer food to consumers, while continuing to improve food safety throughout the supply chain.
Managed by the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) and includes some of the world's leading food safety experts from retailers, manufacturers and food service companies.
Ensure confidence and continue to improve food safety
Includes some leading food safety experts – retail and manufacturing

4. The GFSI Board Includes:
Cargill
Wegmans
Coca-Cola
Carrefour
Nestlé
Mondeléz
McDonalds
Tyson
Dole
Danone
Amazon

5. Purpose of GFSI
Goals:
Identify the best food safety management practices across the food supply- chain
Encourage the auditing and certification of those practices at food facilities worldwide
Provide “Safe Food for Consumers Everywhere.”

6. Why GFSI?
Throughout the food chain risk and liability from food safety incidents is increasing
This has resulted in a significant increase in food safety concerns by food processing and retail companies
Changes in food safety regulations driven by Food Safety Act are resulting in more attention on suppliers
Food processors, food packaging and label manufacturing companies are being required to revise their safety program.

7. Why GFSI?
The findings of a recent GFSI survey of food safety professionals at certified facilities around the world reinforce the many benefits of GFSI:
72%of food safety professionals say GFSI has enhanced food safety practices at their facilities;
61% say GFSI has improved their ability to produce safe food
90% say GFSI has helped to increase employee food safety knowledge, and
68% say GFSI is helping to prepare them for forthcoming regulatory changes.

8. What is a GFSI Recognized Certification?
There is no “GFSI Certification”
Companies choose from GFSI recognized schemes.

9. How does it work? GFSI Sets the requirements for food safety schemes.
Packaging
Packaging materials
Storage and distribution
Your customers are demanding a GFSI Recognized Certification

10. What do the Certification Schemes Require?
Food Safety Management
Food Safety Policy
Food Safety Manual
Management Responsibility
Management Commitment
Management Review
Resource Management
Documentation
Specifications
Procedures
Internal Audits
Corrective Action
Control of Non-conformity
Product Release
Purchasing
Supplier Performance Monitoring
Traceability
Complaint Handling
Serious Incident Management
Control of Measuring and Monitoring
Product Analysis
Prerequisite Programs (PRPs)
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP)

11. What is Required of Top Management?
Certification is an annual process requiring the commitment of senior management to creating a corporate “culture” of food safety and continuous improvement within food facilities.
Facilities are required to develop a food safety plan tailored to their operations and have the plan audited and verified at each step of the production process by a trained, third-party auditor.
These plans identify potential food safety risks, best management practices, employee training requirements and potential capital investments, among other items.

12. Ways for Top Management to Show Commitment
Learn about the requirements of the Food Safety Certification scheme you are going to implement.
Dedicate resources to the project (personnel, training etc.)
Have leadership position on the implementation steering team

13. What do the Certification Schemes Require?
Food Safety Management
Food Safety Policy
Food Safety Manual
Management Responsibility
Management Commitment
Management Review
Resource Management
Documentation
Specifications
Procedures
Internal Audits
Corrective Action
Control of Non-conformity
Product Release
Purchasing
Supplier Performance Monitoring
Traceability
Complaint Handling
Serious Incident Management
Control of Measuring and Monitoring
Product Analysis
Prerequisite Programs (PRPs)
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP)

14. What do Prerequisite Programs Require?
Workspace,
Utilities,
Waste,
Pest control,
Employee hygiene practices,
Sanitizing,
Cleaning programs
Prevention of cross contamination,
Equipment design,
Equipment cleaning and maintenance, and
Recall procedures.

15. THE STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS
SQF
SQF MODULE 2 plus the
SQF MODULE for your industry
FSSC
FSSC REQUIREMENT
ISO 22000
ISO/TS (food)
Or ISO/TS ( Food Packaging)
BRC
BRC/IoP
GLOBAL STANDARD
Prerequisite Programs (PRPs)

16. HACCP
In addition, all of the standards include the requirement to development and implementation of a Hazardous Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) program.
There are seven elements of the HACCP: hazard analysis, critical control points, critical control limits, monitoring procedures, corrective action, verification, and record keeping.
Examples:
Line clearance or copy check
Foreign material contamination
Chemicals in formulation

17. Steps to prepare for certification
Choose a scheme
Research your industry
Check customers and competition
Learn the requirements
Take courses from certification bodies
Take online courses
Assign team and leader
Assign a HACCP Team Leader
SQF Practitioner or Food Safety Team Leader
Design Process
Design a process for each management system element
Implement prerequisite programs and HACCP
Implement and Train
Train employees
Implement the procedures

18. Certification Audits The certification process:
Choose an accredited certification body. They will conduct:
Document Review
On-site Audit
Surveillance Audits
3 Year Cycle

19. Online Training Documents
How we can help:
Online Training
Documents
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We begin with training to explain the requirements of the standard.
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Templates are provided to document your system and meet the requirements. They are ready to customize and our tutorials explain how.
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20. Cynthia Weber, Vinca LLC
About us:
Cynthia Weber, Vinca LLC
BS. Microbiology
Over 25 years in the food industry
FSSC Certification Auditor
Food Processing
Food Packaging Materials
Approximately 100 Certification Audits in the Food Packaging Industry
SQF Registered Consultant
SQF Trainer
Trainer for Food Safety Modernization Act
EQIP Certified