Audit Harmonization

Pdelaney

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News Release For Immediate Release, March 4, 2009 Contact: Patrick Delaney [e-mail] 202-303-3400 ext. 417 United Fresh Produce Association’s Retail-Foodservice Board Endorses Work to Harmonize Audits Board Encourages Industry to Participate in Food Safety Conference in April WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United Fresh Retail-Foodservice Board has endorsed the importance of efforts to harmonize produce food safety audits to reduce cost and duplication of efforts, while enhancing overall safety. At its meeting last week, the Board recommended that produce industry members throughout the supply chain participate in the new Global Conference on Produce Food Safety Standards, to be held April 24-25 immediately following the United Fresh 2009 Convention in Las Vegas. In a joint statement on behalf of the Board, Chairman Reggie Griffin of The Kroger Company and Vice Chairman Mitch Smith of McDonalds said, “Both retail and foodservice buyers share the same goals as produce suppliers in assuring that good agricultural and handling practices are followed in production and distribution. It’s important that partners throughout the supply chain work toward benchmarking and harmonization of any audits that we use to ensure the most effective food safety results with the least cost and duplication of efforts. Using multiple different audits all asking the same basic questions is not the most effective way to focus our energies in ...

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• Publié par: Feav
• Nombre de lectures: 8
• Langue: English

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  0  '4+ >       +  4 0   4        0 +@         ) (5    . $ $ 4 5  # 6+ 22 4  - . 7 0  8 9 ) 0 4 5  + 0 2+     4 02  0   3 0               ="     2 2+ 4  5     22   5   +   0 0  0         +@ $3                   - .)  . <  4+   . $ 0   4  4 0  02   +  4  )5 2 +  2     2    4  . 222 0+   25   4  =## 0 @  2    +  + 4+ +    4 5?       ) - . /.0 1     2 2 5   0      4  2  ) 5  2    0 2 0 4 4             * 2  5   (4$ 1+ " 5 1+   .  1 )+  2    5 2  4  2 25     + 5        0 - 1         A 2 2 5 4 5   4 5+ 4   $ $  #    0     2        #            2  2 2 5 225+  2     +   ?     4  2 4  5   225   2 2      BBB                                       
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