The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF’s) Coalition of Action on food safety, has signed an agreement with Webnet for the development of its proprietary certificate platform—a live, online repository of all certificates issued against GFSI-recognized Certification Programs, available to anyone needing to verify the validity of such certificates.
This project, a key feature of GFSI’s Race to the Top, strongly demonstrates GFSI’s commitment to deliver trust, transparency, and confidence in food safety certification. The project is a response to the feedback of many GFSI stakeholders who reported that it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish GFSI-recognized certificates from non-recognized certificates, or to differentiate valid certificates from fraudulent ones. The new platform is, therefore, much anticipated within the GFSI community.