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Saturday, April 25, 2009
Global Standards Owners
The second day of the Global Food Safety Standards Conterence kicked off the postharvest track with presentation from three standards owners. Kathy Wybourn, director of food safety systems for DMV North America presented the International Food Standards; John Kukoly, senior technical marketing consultant for BRC, presented the British Retail Consortium's Global Standards, and Gary Smith, technical director with the Safe Quality Food Institute, presented SQF-2000.
Each global standard has the foundation of the Global Food Safety Initiative, so although they go about developing their standards differently, they would eliminat the need for multiple audits. Simply put, they're eqivalent audits, Smith said.
There was some confusion from attendees about what role a standards board plays. The standards board owns the standard and then works with ANSI to authorize certification boards to conduct audits to the standards boards' audits. So a company like Silliker or AIB will be certified that its auditors can conduct audits to the guidelines developed by the standards board.
It's a comple issue, but each board provides a system of measure for food safety and quality in a plant. The second section set to begin soon deals with facility audit programs, with presentations from SCS, AIB, ASI, Steritech and NSF Davis Fresh.
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