SSAFE Resources

This paper, written by our founding Board Member Mike Robach in 2010, addresses concerns about potential conflicts between official standards and those established by private standard setting organizations.

The FFVA Tool is a free science-based resource for any type of food business to conduct a vulnerability assessment and identify potential risks and exposures to food fraud (available in 9 languages).

These training modules, developed in conjunction with Dr. John Spink, explain why it is important to undertake food fraud vulnerability assessments and how to use the SSAFE FFVA tool.

The journey to world-class food safety practices starts with building a strong food safety culture within a food business. SSAFE partnered with TSI to develop a free tool, available in 55 languages, to help food businesses identify strengths and weaknesses in the “People”component of their food safety culture.

SSAFE best practice guide on how to manage food safety in M&A, from due diligence during the acquisition phase to best practices to support post-merger integration of food safety systems and practices.

SSAFE, in partnership with the Shanghai Jiao Tong University – Bor S. Luh Food Safety Research Center, developed and delivered a five-year capability development program on HACCP and GFSI Global Markets Program, with all training materials available in Chinese.

To address issues such as cross-contamination (allergens and other contaminants) due to bad growing and harvesting practices, undeclared ingredients, illegal dyes, incorrect pesticide use, improper use of chemicals, etc. SSAFE developed a free practical guide to provide farmers around the world with 47 useful and effective measures, based on scientific global best practices, to help reduce or eliminate on-farm (cross)contamination.

To help storage and transportation companies meet ISO 22000, SSAFE worked with ISO to develop a set of requirements that specify establishing, implementing and maintaining PRPs for transport and storage in the food chain to assist in controlling food safety hazards.

This guide, developed by SSAFE with input from key partners, demonstrates how Industry 4.0 technologies can be implemented across the food supply chain, what some of the potential benefits and risks are, and how individual companies and the food industry at large can maximize the potential of emerging technologies in the coming years.

SSAFE contracted the British Standards Institution (BSI) to develop an ISO-based technical specification that addresses the protection of the health of animals and ensure the safety of meat, milk and eggs from such food producing animals. This document subsequently was used as a seed document to form part of the ISO 22002 PRP series.

SSAFE contracted the British Standards Institution (BSI) to develop an ISO-based technical specificationto to assist packaging manufacturers in controlling food safety hazards. The specification was subsequently submitted to ISO as one of the seed documents of ISO/TS 22002-4:2013 – PRPs on food safety — Part 4: Food packaging manufacturing, published in 2013.

SSAFE has collaborated with five leading experts in Food Crime Prevention to develop a lecture series on Food Fraud, Food Defense and Food Integrity. Through a series of short videos, each of the experts take you on a journey to help you better understand what food crime is and what you can do to help protect your business and yourself.

SSAFE-developed open-source food safety training framework to support the development of dairy farming in low and medium income countries.

SSAFE develop a Public Private Partnership between the emerging animal agriculture sector and government services in Mozambique in order to protect animal and public health and improve livelihoods.

SSAFE supported the development of an ISO technical specification for implementing the WOAH standards and create a globally accepted protocol to implement WOAH animal welfare standards at the production level in a manner that respects production differences while achieving the same welfare outcome.

For World Food Safety Day 2021 SSAFE collaborated with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to develop a series of posters to demonstrate that together, through partnerships, we can do more to deliver safe food.