Focus area
Safety
From a product’s source to the restaurant, consumer safety is critical – and the key is the ability to track and trace products, like fish, up-and-down the supply chain. Just one crisis can have a major impact on a brand, a company, even an entire foodservice sector.
Quicker recalls and the ability to manage stringent food regulations – while ensuring a consistently safe product – boost consumer loyalty.
Additional Reading
The need for global standards and solutions to combat counterfeiting
White Paper
GS1 is the only global not-for-profit organisation assigned the ISO trusted role of issuing unique object Identifiers, thereby providing customs and other market surveillance authorities the ability to authenticate products and reduce the risk of counterfeits.
Leveraging standards to manage product incident reporting to Health Canada
Case Study
Since its inception in 2009, the GS1 Canada Product Recall service enables the industry to better manage recalls between trading partners. Product recall notifications are based on the GS1 standard and are delivered via a cloud-based platform that supports a one-to-many publication capability.