The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) is a non-profit foundation created under Belgian Law in May 2000. The Consumer Goods Forum is responsible for daily management of GFSI. The GFSI vision is “safe food for consumers everywhere.” GFSI is a global approach to food safety issues. The GFSI mission is “to provide continuous improvement in food safety management systems to ensure confidence in the delivery of safe food to consumers worldwide.”
The GFSI objectives are: 1. Reduce food safety risks by delivering equivalence and convergence between effective food safety management systems, 2. Manage cost in the global food system by eliminating redundancy and improving operational efficiency, 3. Develop competencies and capacity building in food safety to create consistent and effective global food systems and 4. Provide a unique international stakeholder platform for collaboration, knowledge exchange and networking.