Optimizing Food Safety Management Systems to Build a Culture of Compliance
The BRC Global Standards Team is bringing a global cast of inspirational speakers representing retail, food services and food manufacturing to Chicago. Over five days, the event will deliver a conference and training courses reflecting best practice case studies and strategy building workshops designed specifically to improve food safety management in US retail, food service and manufacturing environments.
The Conference will provide invaluable insights and high-level, constructive knowledge share on the significant global challenges in today’s retail supply chain and detail how the BRC is able to support businesses to optimize operations through the use of its credible Standards.
Based on localised research with your US based peers, your top themes to be addressed for 2012 will include:
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US Legal Developments: Examining the current status and implications of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
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Optimizing Operations Through the Use of the BRC Standards: Demonstrating through best practice case studies, the necessary preparation and resulting benefits of BRC certification
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Root Causes Analysis: Exclusive statistical analysis from the BRC into geographical and organisational trends in food safety compliance
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Implementation Guidance: Demonstrating best practice and lessons learned
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Managing Supplier Relationships: Increasing assurance that your product supply is safe and the source genuine
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Incident Management: Lessons from the experiences of real product recalls; how to deliver rapid turnaround through behavioural management and allowing for improved traceability in recall programs and processes
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Risk Assessment: Hear the regulatory perspective on what a robust risk assessment and analysis program looks like
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Sustainability and the Carbon Footprint: With the sales of food products making sustainability or ethical claims increasing by nearly 20% per year, what are the important supply-chain lessons to be learnt?
A word from the Conference Chairman:
“As food global supply chains become increasingly complex, the need to keep abreast of emerging issues, changing legislation and find innovative solutions becomes ever more crucial.
Food Safety 2012 provides both a comprehensive program of speakers who are recognised experts in their field and an opportunity to network with senior technical executives working to address these issues on a day to day basis.
I look forward to welcoming you to Food Safety 2012 and sharing with you the technical insights and network building opportunities that this program is designed to achieve.”
Dr Geoff Spriegel, Managing Director, Food Consulting International, Executive Advisor, BRC Global Standard