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Global Markets
Food
With IFS Global Markets Food, you lay the foundation for further growth and scalability. It increases the trust your customers have in your company.
IFS Global Markets Food offers an easy entry into adequate food safety and quality processes and helps you meet legal and customer requirements. You can set the path towards IFS Certification with your customers, including the pace and milestones.
Industry experts representing the food supply chain develop the program, ensuring it is realistic and relevant to the market's needs. Highly recognised assessors evaluate your food safety and quality management, good manufacturing and hygiene practices, product hazards and risks, and compliance with legal and customer requirements. The assessor’s expertise, the graded scoring system, detailed reports and IFS Tools help you continuously develop your processes further and reach your goals.
Benefits
IFS Global Markets Food helps you:
- meet legal requirements
- comply with existing and future business partner expectations
- implement food safety and quality process prerequisites
- address hazard identification and control
- understand and minimise risks
- strengthen traceability systems
Downloads for further information
IFS GM Food v2 program ENIFS GM Food v3 program ENIFS GM Food fact sheet ENIFS GM Food v2 guideline ENIFS Foreign body management v2 guideline ENIFS Food and product defence guideline v1.1 ENIFS GAP guideline ENIFS/QS listeria prevention supporting document ENIFS GM Food v2 - v3 checklists comparison ENIFS Global Markets Food version 3 launch newsletterU.S. Food safety legislation for foreign suppliers fact sheet EN
Train
For industry training, IFS cooperates with approved training providers. Also, we offer e-learning courses in English in our webshop.
Approved IFS Training Providers offer official training for IFS Standards and Programs, internal auditing, hazard analysis, risk assessments or specific technical topics.
IFS exclusively provides the training material for these courses. This way, you can be sure that only these providers will teach you how to implement IFS requirements according to their original intention. Only our approved training providers may use the IFS Academy Logo.
The training takes place online as group and individual courses or in person and on-site.
Click here to find an IFS Training Provider in your country.
Implement
You can implement the IFS Requirements on your own or tap into the expertise, knowledge, and experience of a recognised IFS Consultant.
IFS supports you with a unique package of various tools and guiding documents (see below). Also, you can contact an IFS Representative in your region or country for advice.
Recognised IFS Consultants are industry professionals offering training, standard knowledge, internal auditing, and industry experience to guide the implementation of the IFS Requirements. IFS has trained these consultants and regularly informs them about updates and other relevant developments regarding the standards and programs. You can be sure that you will work with an excellently trained, up to date and experienced professional when choosing a recognised IFS Consultant.
Search for the most suitable consultant for your company in your region in our consultant search.
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Assess
Approved certification bodies (CBs) and assessment services providers (ASPs) deliver assessment services to companies seeking assessment to an IFS Global Markets program. Their IFS Auditors or Assessors perform the assessments.
We firmly believe that solid auditor and assessor competence is the basis for the IFS Standards’ and Programs’ credibility and reliability. All IFS Auditors and Assessors must meet specific requirements. This way, we ensure that they assess companies in a consistent manner worldwide.
Use the search function to find a CB or ASP in your country.
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IFS Global Markets Food Blog
IFS Faces - João Ricardo Stein
05 March 2023
IFS Editorial Team
It's rewarding to see how businesses following the IFS Pathway progress. João Ricardo Stein, IFS Senior Technical Manager The Face behind IFS Global Markets and IFS Pathway My name is João Ricardo Stein; I am a Brazilian citizen based in São Pa...
IFS Faces -Caroline Nowak
05 March 2023
IFS Editorial Team
To me, IFS is more than its standards, programmes and tools; it represents my homeland. Caroline Nowak, Representative Brazil The IFS Face in Brazil My name is Caroline Nowak, and I was born and raised in Berlin, Germany. I have been living in ...
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