global food safety initiative (gfsi) implementation – concepts and issues
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Presented at 2013 Arkansas Association for Food Protection annual conference. Phil Crandall, Natalie Dyenson, Frank Yiannas and Corliss O’BryanTRANSCRIPT
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GLOBAL FOOD SAFETY INITIATIVE (GFSI) IMPLEMENTATION –CONCEPTS AND ISSUES
Phil Crandall, Natalie Dyenson, Frank Yiannas and Corliss O’Bryan
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WHAT IS GFSI AND WHY SHOULD I KNOW ABOUT IT’S GOALS?
In 2000, CEOs global companies at The Consumer Goods forum --how best to spend precious food safety (FS) resources- Backdrop--high-profile food recalls, quarantines
& negative publicity on food industry “audit fatigue”—multiple & sometimes
contradictory retailer’s or 3rd party requirement, as many 6 / year
Lack of agreements on FS certifications & acceptance
Harmonization of nationally and internationally
Spend FS resources-- that produced results
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WHAT IS GFSI AND WHY SHOULD I KNOW ABOUT IT’S GOALS?
Initially “benchmark” standards- model of equivalency between existing food safety schemes
Today, international FS experts, across entire food supply chain meet Technical Working Groups, stakeholder conferences share knowledge and promote a harmonized approach to managing food safety across the industry
Non-competitive environment
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SCHEMES THAT ARE “BENCHMARKED” WITH GFSI
BRC Food Safety Issue 6,
IFS Food Version 6 SQF Code 7th
Edition Level 2 Global Red Meat
Standard FSSC ISO 22000
and 9000
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NUMBER OF CERTIFICATES ISSUED AGAINST GFSI RECOGNIZED SCHEMES 2012
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GFSI CERTIFICATION
Thousands of companies in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and in Asia have received a GFSI-approved certification that is accepted by their retail customers anywhere in the world.
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THESE INCLUDE SUCH RECOGNIZABLE NAMES AS:
Cargill H-E-B Shop RiteCampbells Hormel TargetCoca Cola Kraft Foods Trader JoesConAgra Foods Kroger TysonCostco McDonalds Walgreen'sCVS PF Chang Wal-MartDaymon WorldwideFarm FreshGiant Food
SafewaySam’s ClubSchwan FoodCompany
Wegmans Food MarketsWin-Dixie Stores
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THRESHOLDS TO OVERCOME TO ACCELERATE GFSI ACCEPTANCE
“Mind set” food safety is not a competitive edge,
“sistership” cantaloupe outbreak September 14, 2011 - Jensen Farms, of Holly, Colorado
“Yes, we (your customer) wants you to complete a GFSI audit, but we have company requirements we’d like to see in addition …..”
Or “let’s approach the GFSI Technical Committee on this issue and see if we can ….
Choice retailers have—dilute suppliers’ resources with redundant and overlapping audits or focus resources on productive goals
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FUTURE MARKET AND REGULATORY FORCES PUSHING FOR GFSI IN NEXT 5 YEARS
Regulatory Drivers Food Safety Modernization Act, FSMA, US centric
requirements—may have GFSI like certifications as the rules are finalized
Denmark regulatory audits are reduced for suppliers with GFSI;
China’s national government audit standards benchmarked by GFSI; huge in some markets
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GFSI DRIVER--TRACEABILITY OR THE LACK THEREOF
Final future driver, traceability failure ie horsemeat in EU—estimate cost, brand damage?
Quote from international liability insurance executive, “Estimates—tens of millions of euros as brand owners pass costs for profits from items having to be pulled from shelves, costs of replacement and damage to image.” as a result of food products adulterated with horsemeat
http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/Safety-Regulation/Horse-meat-scandal-Where-it-began-and-where-are-we-now
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BACKGROUND OF OUR STUDY GFSI IMPLEMENTATION
GFSI began in 2000 In February 2008, Walmart announced
that all of their private (store) brand & some national brand suppliers certified based approved GFSI >July 2009
Surveyed Feb 2010; 309 national suppliers to Walmart were contacted—had 56% participation
98% of the respondents were primary food manufacturers
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OUR STUDY OF 174 WM RETAIL SUPPLIERS
Demographic information for the companies that supplied products
Annual sales ($) Number of companies (%) of companies 0–50 million 29 17 %51–100 million 29 17 %101–200 million 27 16 %201–500 million 40 23 %$500 million or more 49 28 %Relative food safety risk of productsLow 83 48 %Medium 65 37 %High 26 15 %
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF GFSI BENCHMARKED SCHEMES AMONG FOOD PRODUCTION PLANTS
Scheme Number % of plantsSQF 2000 level 2 or higher 221 54 %British Retail Consortium (BRC)
Global Standard, version 5 151 37 %International Food Standard (IFS),
version 5 14 3 %Primus GFS 11 3 %SQF 1000 (level 2) 5 1 %Food Safety System Certification (FSSC) 22000a 4 1 %Total 406 plants from 174
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WHY SELECT A PARTICULAR GFSI BENCHMARKED SCHEME? (SQF VS BRC)
50% -- widely accepted by (retail) customers
20% -- required by a (single) customer 12% -- recommendations from others 10% -- good reputation in the industry 7% -- most often used in our industry
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SELECTION OF BENCHMARKED AUDITOR BY INDUSTRY
Benchmarked Standard Number % CompaniesDrinks BRC Global Standard, version 5 8 19.0% FSSC 22000 2 4.8% SQF 2000 (level 2 or higher) 32 76.2%Fruits and vegetables BRC Global Standard, version 5 11 22.9% Primus GFS 11 22.9% SQF 2000 (level 2 or higher) 26 54.2%Meats BRC Global Standard, version 5 46 61.3% IFS, version 5 1 1.3% SQF 2000 (level 2 or higher) 28 37.3%
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5-POINT LIKERT SCALE (1, STRONGLYDISAGREE; 3 NEITHER AGREE OR DISAGREE & 5, STRONGLY AGREE)
Statements: Risk Med HighSales$201-500, > $500After GFSI our FS 3.95 3.77 4.13 3.73 management systembetter documentedGFSI we’ve had more 3.38 3.54 3.63 3.33 employee trainingGFSI further enhanced 3.43* 3.08 3.58 3.14production of safe foodCompany made 3.62 4.04 3.83 3.73significant investmentsGFSI seen as improving 3.85 3.88 4.03 3.73safety of foods produced
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NUMBER OF AUDITS BEFORE AND AFTER BECOMING GFSI COMPLIANT RANGE 3-6
Number of 3rd party audits/year
Before After Diff. Relative riskLow (dry cereal) 4.57 3.69
0.89Medium (can food) 4.42 3.97
0.45High (RTE meat) 5.72 4.28 1.45Overall (174 co.) 4.71 3.89 0.81
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OTHER FINDINGS FROM WM SUPPLIER SURVEY
Time to become GFSI compliant ranged from 12.6 mo for smallest companies; 8.3 mo large
Time for medium risk 10.4 mo
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OF OUR STUDY OF 174 RETAIL SUPPLIERS
Companies’ Opinions and Acceptance of Global Food Safety, Initiative Benchmarks after Implementation. Journal of Food Protection, Vol. 75, No. 9, 2012, Pages 1660–1672
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CURRENT TRACEABILITY Currently “one-up, one down”
regulation. Know who you purchased an ingredient from and to whom you sold the finished products
Many, many thresholds to overcome—examples fruits and vegetables and mainly ground beef
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GFSI AND GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES (GAP) Goal: minimize
conflicting & competing industry specific FS standards
Minimize or eliminate trade barriers, WTO
Minimize redundant FS requirements that have driven-up of food to consumers
GFSI provides data for real-time FS management
Manages costs from FS culture
Maintain consumer confidence in food industry
Our study, Increased employee
education Reduced perceived FS
risks
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BEEF TRACEABILITY—BEEN AROUND A REALLY LONG TIME
Egyptians Spaniards, Hernán Cortés
branded his cattle with three Latin crosses
Texas after civil war, cattle driven to Northern rail heads to be separated prior to shipment to Northern slaughter facilities
Today--tattooing, ear notching, ear tagging (metal and plastic) and electronic identification (injectable, ear tags and electronic bolus), as well as natural systems (mainly retinal imaging and molecular markers)
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EXTRAS
bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in late 2003 spark ignited
National Animal Identification System (NAIS) was created in 2004 –VOLUNTARY 95% poultry production premises registered 80% pork premises 18% beef premises registered
05 Feb 2010 Sec Ag Vilsack abandoned NAIS—state Animal Disease Traceability systems
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AT LEAST TWO PERSPECTIVES ON GROUND BEEF
Beef Producer Beef Processor
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PRODUCER-ANIMAL DISEASE TRACKING
Minnesota Board of Health—official ear tags
MN 2001regained status as Tuberculosis Free State
Eliminate “whole-herd” depopulation? Eliminate public reaction
May go to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Requires producers to: Keep records min 5
years Dam and sire, location
where born, sex Date of castration for
steers Brucellosis tag ($1
@sale) Arkansas’ producers
want to keep their “Brucellosis (bangs) Free” state status
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PRODUCER THRESHOLDS TO OVERCOME IN BEEF TRACEABILITY
Increased potential liability—tort reform Increased trespass by regulators on
producers’ property (Big Brother) Added expense, time maintaining auditable
records Minimal benefits, in 2009 cost ~ $6/head =
90% costs borne by producers 2007 premium live cattle market, $1.50-
$2.00/ hundred weight, in KC calves maintained minimal traceability
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II. BENEFITS TO BEEF PROCESSOR
Increased access to markets: labels Grass fed, Certified Organic, Humanely Raised USDA’s Ag Market Service, “Process Verified”
Recalls, all 4 majors beef processors had recalls or withdrawals—robust traceability system Again retail customer and regulatory
requirements 2010 mock recall savings 11 cents / pound (7%)
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BEEF PRODUCER THRESHOLDS TO OVERCOME
The beef industry much lower degree of vertical integration than poultry or pork Many barriers to overcome to further develop
vertically integrated systems Regulations currently prohibit vertical integration
Need genetic breakthrough in identifying genes produce eating quality consumers desire and maintaining identity of the beef from conception to the consumer
Or needs to be a major breakthrough in processing or new product development to increase the profit opportunities for beef products at the retail and food service level
Vertical integration a mechanism must be developed to shift or share the capital requirements and risk
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SIZE AND SCALE OF BEEF IN USA, 2011
About $80 billion dollar industry
800,000 cow-calf operations Farms > 100 head
produce 45% US beef 34 million head
slaughtered 27 million steers 7 million cull beef &
dairy cows 2 million head
imported
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NEED TO WRAP IT UP—FUTURE ?
Maverick Ranch Beef (Denver, CO) Natural Beef extensive traceability, using retinal scanning
Identify calves at birth, weaning, entry to the feedlot and at slaughter;
Post slaughter they use trolley tracking and bar code tagging of individual cuts to trace back to a particular animal, but even then they do not manage to maintain identity for beef trimmings
Not cover ground beef
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NEED TO WRAP IT UP—FUTURE ?
DNA tracking could distinguish between mixtures of equal amounts of meat from three different individuals, but when a 1 pound package of ground beef contained DNA from 10 animals—even DNA tracking was not reliable!
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AT:
A Review: Whole-chain traceability, is it possible to trace your hamburger to a particular steer, a U. S. perspective. Philip G. Crandall, Corliss A. O'Bryan, Dinesh Babu, Nathan Jarvis, Mike L. Davis, Michael Buser, Brian Adam, John Marcy, Steven C. Ricke
Meat Science 95 (2013) 137–144
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CURRENT STATUS OF ACCEPTANCE OF GFSI, USA AND WORLD WIDE
Consider attending, February 2014 GFSI Conference theme: “One
World, One Safe Food Supply”
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QUESTIONS ?