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
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Roadmap to your assessment

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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Support for IFS certified sites

Database

Connect with the IFS Network to grow your business. As a assessed business, you can log in to the IFS Database to follow suppliers and search for new ones. Also, your company is visible to potential new customers and business partners.

Software

Simplify your internal auditing with the IFS Software. Use the same software as the IFS Auditor to evaluate your product safety and quality management system efficiently. Get score results to assess areas for improvement and create internal audit reports. You can download the software from your IFS Database login area.

App

Document the findings of your internal audit with the IFS Audit Manager app. The app offers checklists, templates and audit planning features. Save time and easily identify gaps in your system, share findings with colleagues, and get the results to see your compliance level.

Supporting Documents

IFS Guidelines and Checklists help you with practical advice on specific technical topics. Prepare for the audit/assessment with guidance documents explaining the intention of the requirements and giving examples of auditor questions. Go to the document hub and search for guidelines to get an overview. 

Risk Management

Monitor food raw material safety risks with the IFS Trend Risk Monitor and Word Cloud. Identify food fraud issues and customise your dashboard to follow trends of interest. Receive the IFS Trend Risk Report, a monthly overview of worldwide data published. Learn more about the IFS Risk Management here.

Pathway

Strengthen your product safety and quality management skills, improve processes, and meet implementation goals. The IFS Pathway leads you towards IFS Certification by providing appropriate resources for each step and specific topics

IFS Global Markets Food Blog

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...

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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