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PROGRAM & TIMETABLE FORUM
IFPS is pleased to announce their second global forum to be held at Fruit Logistica on the 9th of February 2012 and I have the pleasure of inviting all fresh produce professionals to attend.
12.30 Walk-in
This forum, “Global Harmonization of Fresh Produce Standards”, will be free to all Fruit Logistica registered attendees in Berlin. Several international speakers will be there to update the global fresh produce industry on what is happening with respect to Food Safety, Product Identification and Supply Chain Information Management.
45 MINUTES ON FOODSAFETY
I would like to acknowledge Fruit Logistica’s support for this Forum and I look forward to meeting you in Berlin.
Producers and retailers alike agree on the benefit of consistent food safety
13.00 Opening & Welcome T. Stenzel, Chair IFPS
13.10 State of the art of Foodsafety Standardisation P. Hardman, Director Fruit South Africa & Keywords & Tags Ph. Binard, Secretary General FreshFell. , GAP, GlobalGAP, GFSI tices, Good Agricultural Prac Alimentaris Codex
Can Standardisation and Harmonisation of Foodsafety stands help the Fresh produce Industry?
standards. Although production and processing methods will vary for different commodities and regions global standards are needed in the
Tom Stenzel, Chair IFPS
global market for Fresh produce. In this session attendees will be updated about the state of the art on harmonisation and standradisation in Fresh Produce. What’s happening? What should happen?
TALK ABOUT The forum is aimed at business directors and company managers involved in the global supply of fresh produce – from grower to retailer and all points in between, including packhouse, logistics, warehouse, transport, and IT. The forum is three sessions on the following topics:
• Food Safety • Product Identification
13.25 T&T in a Foodcrisis J. Vooijs Quality, Manager FresQ and
Chair of the IFPS Foodsafety Committee
Keywords & Tags
EHEC, Foodcrisis, Tracking, Tracing
Can a transparant Tracking & Tracing system protect the industry for the fall-out of demand in a crisis like EHEC?
• Supply Chain Information Management
In Europa we had the EHEC-crisis where all kinds of fresh products were
You are welcome to attend the whole forum, or just the session that is of interest to you. For a full programme breakdown, please see:
accused to have bacteria on it. Till the day of today there is no proof that
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is was so. But the impact on the industry was gigantic. Markets collapsed, growers complete yields go down the drain. The question which is often coming up is if a fully transparant trabebility system on product level prevent a crisis in market like this. As a member of the Dutch EHEC-crisis team J.
The forum will be conducted in English, with translation services available in French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Voijs shares with you the things the Dutch learned from this crisis.
GLOBAL HARMONIZATION OF FRESH PRODUCE STANDARDS 45 MINUTES ON FOODSAFETY
ORGANIZATION
3.40 Update on Product Tracebility Initiative Jim Lemke, Senior Vice President C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. Keywords & Tags
The following national produce associations are members of IFPS:
The challenges in implementating GS1 standards in fresh Tracebility.
SSCC, GTIN, Databar, Readable code, GS1
The US retailers and Fresh produce industry is working together on the Product Tracebility initiative. Here in they are using International GS1 Standards for identifying cases and pallets to secure food safety in the Fresh produce chain. In this presentation you get an updete on this project. What functions? What not? 13.45 Questions on Foodsafety
30 MINUTES ON PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION & CHAIN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 14.00
Fresh Foods: Smarter, Safer, Fresher with GS1 DataBar Greg Rowe, Director, AIDC Retail GS1 Global Office
• United Fresh Produce Association
• PMA-ANZ
• Canadian Horticultural Council
• Horticulture Australia Ltd.
• Fresh Produce Consortium
• Freshfel
• United Fresh New Zealand
• Fruit South Africa
• Norges Frukt-og Gronnsaksgrossisters
• SHAFFE Southern Hemisphere Association
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• Canadian Produce Marketing Association • Asociacion de Exportadores de Chile • Produce Marketing Association
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
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• GS1-Global
DO PRODUCE STANDARDS MATTER IN YOUR COUNTRY? IF SO, JOIN IFPS TODAY! Contact: Nigel Jenney Email: membership@IFPSglobal.com
Keywords & Tags
GS1, Databar, Global al Location number, Glob Trade Item Number
Every year, loads of money in Fresh Food is lost to Spoilage. The GS1 DataBar is being implemented on Fresh Fruit & Vegetables. But how far are retailers in this process? How are they using GS1 DataBar in Fresh Fruit & Vegetables? Topics will include new strategies such as Expiration Date Management, Automatic Markdowns and what’s needed to implement GS1 DataBar in your chain. 14.10 Connecting the customers with standards, a challenge? J. Stroeken, Groenten & Fruitbureau
REGULAR MEMBERS
Keywords & Tags
Databar, QR-code, Smartphones, GTIN, Scanning
Give new technologies us an opportunity to connect from the fruit direct to the grower?
WE ESPECIALLY INVITE.... This Forum has been set up for the benefit of all companies involved in the global fresh produce supply chain. In particular, we invite directors, senior executives and managers with responsibility for food safety, quality, logistics and transport management; and the IT systems that support the entire process from field to table. If you deal with food safety, product identification and supply chain information management with respect to fresh produce, then this forum is for you.
ACCESS AND REGISTRATION The Forum is free of charge for all attendees to Fruit Logistica 2012. Please confirm your attendance by registering on our website:
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The upcoming of the databar and QR-code in combination with smartphones give us opprtunities to connect directly to the grower at consumer level. A hughe opporunitie in marketing were standardisation plays a hugh role. J. Stroeken shares with you his challenge in exloring the opportunities in the use of smartphones in fruit & vegetable marketing.
14.20 Questions Product Identfication & Chain Information Management 14.25 Closing Remarks T. Stenzel, Chair IFPS
SPONSORED BY This Forum has been sponsored by:
BASIC INFO Date: Thursday, 9th of Februari 2012, from 13.00 - 14.30. Location The Hall Forum is placed between the halls 18/11.2 (Entrance “Kleiner Stern”) Translation services: in 4 languages namely: French, Italian, German and Spanish. Fair address: Messe Berlin GmbH Fair info: www.fruitlogistica.com FRUIT LOGISTICA Event info: www.IFPSglobal.com/forum Messedamm 22 14055 Berlin Germany