Food & Beverages

Biography

Biography: Joaquin Arturo Nava Fonseca

Abstract

GFSI has become a global trend that drives higher levels of safety and quality of food through the use of approved standards like FSSC 22000, IFS, BRC, SQF and Global Gap as the most outstanding arising from the use thereof in organizations leaders who apply within their operations and simultaneously take them to the level of suppliers and their entire supply chain. Latin America is a region that has different facets in culture towards food safety where we can see that in different regions and countries coexist organizations may well have achieved maturity in their management systems for safety and simultaneously have relevant areas of opportunity because there continue to be high-risk situations consumers despite having factories certified under these standards. It is also relevant that most providers leaders, have not yet consolidated management systems and this causes very interesting challenges in the region making great efforts to align with the Global Food Safety Initiative. This presentation will identify the main challenges facing the industry to go through an analysis of their reality region by region so that it can understand the kind of support that food manufacturers in Latin America need to improve the quality and safety of their products.