BSI

In today’s age of rapid globalization, changing consumer requirements, burgeoning food fraud, cyber security risks, and stringent regulations, food and beverage (F&B) companies seek reliable partners to help them comply with evolving food safety risks, guidelines, and regulations.

As the world’s first standards body and a founding member of ISO, BSI helps F&B businesses achieve desired safety and sustainability goals while protecting them from food safety risks. From farm to fork, it partners with food sector businesses of all sizes, equipping them with the tools, information, and services they need to turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s successes.

BSI does not have shareholders, and therefore it can reinvest its profits to maintain a purpose-led focus on clients around the world. In addition, its sizable technical workforce and numerous offices and innovation labs worldwide drive its client-centric strategy of an organization capable of resolving client challenges through extensive industry experience, purpose-led strategy, and impeccable technology expertise.

BSI offers a multitude of services including risk assessment, supplier risk management, and training depending on current or future needs.

Its training offerings run the gamut from the fundamental requirements of HACCP& GMP, GFSI benchmarked food safety standards implementation, and food defense, or can be tailored to specific needs by collaborating with subject matter experts worldwide. In addition, BSI has a highly experienced group of in-house subject matter experts, along with external specialists, with extensive knowledge of the food industry.

Neil Coole, director of the food and retail supply chain at BSI, notes that F&B professionals are addressing many emerging threats within the industry, including how to bridge the gap between food safety and cyber security. BSI’s subject matter experts help identify these vulnerabilities and put controls and preventive measures in place to help clients better secure their operations, supply chains, and the safety of products.

A core strength of BSI is its ability to convene industry subject matter experts to shape and share best practice frameworks, also known as standards, for the industry to use to address current or emerging issues.

“We bring together the best and brightest from academia, regulatory bodies, industry, and consultancy to form a steering group that follows a dedicated development process to create standards for a given product, process, risk, or behavior,” says Coole.

BSI also supports organizations across the F&B industry to manage supply chain risks, through their supplier assessment programs and supply chain risk intelligence solutions. Recently, some large international organizations struggled to maintain service due to a heavy reliance on supplies from regions impacted by a geopolitical disruption. BSI helped these organizations consider alternative suppliers and provided new supplier risk pre-qualification assessments, allowing them to keep their product lines running in the short term while exploring more stable and economic options for the long term.