The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) is a business-driven initiative for the continuous improvement of food safety management systems that ensures the delivery of safe food to consumers worldwide. Certification under a GFSI-recognized food safety management program is a growing requirement within key food product supply chains—one that is driven by customer/market demands.
The benefits of certification are many, including:
- Enterprise risk management
- Greater competitive advantage
- Expansion into new markets
- Increased value-added service capability
- Higher level value proposition
Establishing Strategies & Objectives
Kestrel Tellevate LLC helps companies seeking certification to a GFSI-certified standard establish strategies and objectives to meet industry compliance requirements. We provide assistance with the following key areas and decision points:
Compliance Levels and Options
- Standard and level strategy
- Customer/supply chain concerns
- Certifying body determination (based on business type, customer base, market strategy, operational processes and systems, regulatory requirements and compliance, technology and infrastructure, supply chain)
Implementation Schedule
- Program development/project plan
- Gap analysis planning
- Corrective action/preventative action (CA/PA)
- Test audits and corrections
- Certification
Planning
- Readiness review
- Prerequisites/HACCP
- Quality system/food quality
- Food safety plan
- Supplier qualification
- Process/product verification/validation
Certification
- Test audits
- Certification process
Learn more about the GFSI 20 Success Factors.