# Presentation: 420114

## Third Party Audits and Certifications

- NACMPI-August 27, 2008
- Mike Robach
- VP, Corp Food Safety and Regulatory Affairs
- Cargill

## Codex: Food Code174 signatory countries = 98% of the world population

- World Trade
- Organization

- United Nations

**Codex Alimentarius Commission **

**Country**
**Rep**

**Codex**
**Committees**

**Sanitary & PhytoSanitary**
**Measures**

**Technical Barriers to Trade**

**Jane Q.**
**Public**

**CODEX**

**Food **
**Companies**

**Non-Governmental Org.**
** ****203 “Observers” (NGO’s)**
**(FPA, ISO, etc)**

**Country**
**Laws**

**Audit Co.**
**(SGS, AIB, **
**LRQA, DNV, Silliker, NSF, etc)**

- Protect The Health Of Consumers
-       + Ensure Fair Trade Practices

**Audit Std**
**(BRC, ISO, **
**AIB, SAFE, etc)**

## Codex The Law on Food Safety and Our Reference Point

- Codex *The Law on Food Safety and Our Reference Point*

***Codex is our best tool to:***
*Compare/commoditize audits*
*Unite & speak with authority*
*Resist audit proliferation*

- General Hygiene Programs
-                      +   HACCP
- =====================
- CODEX

## Commoditizing AuditsBreak Audit “Package” Into Components

**To compare & commoditize we must break audits into these 3 components**

**Select a key word**

*Tool for *
*supplier and customer*
* **to find and compare audits criteria*

- Audit Key Criteria*Summary*

## Audit Key Criteria ComparisonSummary

**GFSI has 3 key rules affecting typical US audits****	**
- 1- (ownership) Audit standard must be public for anyone to audit (this rules out AIB, Silliker, NSF, etc)
- 2- (accreditation) Audit bodies must be accreditation to international standards
- 3- (qualifications) Auditor must be qualified to international standards
**  ***** GFSI has not said AIB, NSF, SAFE, Silliker do not meet the GFSI key elements criteria**

## CurrentEach Audit Company Can Have Their Own Audit

**Policy**

**Verify**

***“******PUBLIC” ***
**DOMAIN**

***“******PRIVATE” *****DOMAIN**

- Uniqueness

- Differentiation

- Competition

## Global Supply ChainNeeds A Place and Process to Agree on Standards

**Policy**

_**               **__**Verify**__**	**__**	**_

***“******PUBLIC”***
**DOMAIN**

***“******PUBLIC”***
**DOMAIN**

**Global Supply Chain**

## TransparencyOrganization and Numbering as Differentiation leads to Confusion

**Transparence to CODEX is needed in a global supply chain **

## Audit EquivalencyCompetition and Choice

- Equivalency of audits should reduce redundancy and costs.
- Give suppliers a choice of equivalent audits to choose from, not a mandate.

- Promote audit **equivalency** (not brands)
- based on an agreed on global supply chain guidance document

**We need a process and place for the global supply chain and all stakeholders to agree on equivalency**

## Audit Equivalency

- Codex-based criteria
- All stakeholders represented
- Industry (originators, processors, retailers,food service)
- Government
- Consumers
- Inter-governmental agencies (WOFP?)

## Audit Equivalency

- Science-based standards
- Government recognition and oversight
- Focus on systems and outcomes
- GAP, GHP, HACCP
- Accreditation systems
- Benchmark audits
- Certify auditors

## New Thinking for a Sustainable Global Food Safety System

- International standards and policies based on sound science
- Strategies to ensure supply chain continuity
- Improved risk management options
- More robust food system protection
- Transparency