What makes the GMA-SAFE assessment better than other assessments in the industry?
For the first time, the food industry’s leading companies have reached a consensus through GMA to establish a standard, high-quality food safety/food protection systems assessment. Instead of each company relying on or imposing its own assessment and assessment checklist on suppliers, these companies have agreed to a single, comprehensive assessment that is widely accepted across the industry. As a result, a single GMA-SAFE assessment will satisfy the assessment requirements of several customers, eliminating the need for costly, disruptive, and often duplicative assessments. The SAFE assessment allows a facility to describe what they are actually doing, rather than be scored by compliance to an arbitrary set of quality indicators. The SAFE assessment is flexible: a facility can always add information that they know their customers will be interested in. Moreover, SAFE provides access to over 230 certified Auditors around the world, with a broader range of food industry expertise than i
