Relive the Moment: GFSI Conference 2023 Executive Summary Released

Aug 1, 2023 10:00 AM ET

PARIS, August 1, 2023 /3BL/ - Now more than ever, those responsible for food safety face unprecedented change. The executive summary of the 2023 GFSI Conference, just released, offers insights and strategies to help food industry professionals overcome the challenges.

The 40-plus page recap covers all the sessions of the three-day conference, which looked at ways to tackle the turmoil facing the food safety world amid supply chain disruption, climate shocks, and workforce shortages.

In electronic format, the summary gives an end-to-end digest of an event that brought together more than 700 food safety experts from 50 countries to take swift action and identify new approaches to pressing 21st century food safety challenges. Under the theme “Delivering Safe Food in Turbulent Times: The Need for Agility and Resilience”, participants sought out, shared and got answers to problems common among those striving to ensure safe food for all.

The words and images relive the jam-packed line-up of top experts from industry, regulatory bodies, intergovernmental organisations and academia, and summarize their ideas concisely. They provide compelling insights from the expanded series of breakout sessions that covered : harmonisation and benchmarking, public-private partnerships, and capability building.

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About the Global Food Safety Initiative

The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI; the Coalition) is a CEO-led Coalition of Action from The Consumer Goods Forum, bringing together 44 retailers and manufacturers and an extended food safety community to help oversee food safety standards for businesses and help provide access to safe food for people everywhere. As one of the world’s largest networks to help achieve safe food , GFSI is committed to making food safety everyone’s business and the Coalition members are addressing challenges facing food safety systems in their supply chains and the markets they operate in, and are helping to raise the food safety bar globally. Its ambition is to strengthen and harmonise food safety systems so they are able to feed the growing, global population and develop markets that can deliver food safely, no matter where in the world the consumer is. Learn more at: www.mygfsi.com

For further information: Contact James Pieper, Senior Manager, Communications, GFSI, The Consumer Goods Forum, at j.pieper@theconsumergoodsforum.com or on +33 787 69 34 11.