Happy Holidays from GFSF!

Price Loss Coverage Program

USDA created a one year "bail-out" for farmers broadsided by trade war tariffs.  If exports don’t pick up, how about pegging grower losses to increases in tariffs under the new Farm Bill?  Price loss coverage program is perfect vehicle.

FoodOnline Highlights GFSF Summit

Upcoming Education Global Food Safety Forum 6th Annual Summit: Managing Global Supply Chains In New Trading Environment   November 18 to 20, 2018 | ZhongJian Building, Beijing, P.R. China GFSF, a not-for-profit organization founded and managed worldwide by GIC Group, is hosting its 6th annual summit for the promotion of global food safety and exchange of regulatory and technological food safety developments. Join us to discuss — Data Drivers: Big Data/Blockchain; Food Safety Tracing Technologies: Detection and Certification; China’s New Food Safety Initiatives and the “One Belt/One Road” Market; Organic Food Safety Challenges; Aquaculture Safety Challenges; E-Produce/E-Food Commerce: Safety Challenges and Integrated Supply Chains; and Food Safety Risk Mitigation: Food Safety Product Liability Insurance. For more information about registration and sponsorship, visit here.

GFSF Website for 6th Annual Summit, in Beijing

Please join GFSF at our 6th Annual Summit, in Beijing, November 18-20.  Details are available on our website:   http://asansbury.wix.com/conference-2018

As Brexit negotiations get stickier and stickier, let's not forget food safety. EC and EFSA risk management and risk assessment functions will have to be resolved. Big issues for the global supply chain.

GIC Partnership with SAC Group, Georgia

 

Contact: Rick Hogoboom                                                  For Immediate Release
rick.hogoboom@gicgroup.com
301-799-0840
www. gicgroup.com
www.sacgroup.ge

GIC is pleased to announce its partnership with SAC Group, Georgia.  We offer consulting, financial advisory, supply chain management and risk mitigation services to corporate and public sector clients in the agro and biotech industries. 

Georgia is a global agricultural gateway.  It offers unique trade opportunities to major neighboring developed country markets.  We’ll be hosting a Fall meeting in Tbilisi for strategic investors, by invitation only.  For further information, please contact us. 

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White House Reorganization Proposal -- Good News/Bad News

Yesterday’s White House reorganization proposal may be a good news/ bad news story. In the abstract, it may make sense to have a single Food Safety Agency within USDA. The potential drawbacks, however, could compound regulatory confusion more than resolve it. "We’ll be monitoring the issue," said Nick Herrmann, GIC Director of Business Development, “but our biggest concern is the impact—short and longer term—on the global supply chain.” These concerns plus Congressional oversight considerations were raised before when the Obama Administration floated the idea of a separate Food Safety Agency, only within FDA, not USDA. This time around, there may be even less traction for the idea.

The Transparency Alliance

GFSF and GIC partnering in a new European food safety tracing alliance, The Transparency Alliance.  Rick Gilmore, Chairman of GFSF and President/ CEO of GIC, indicated that, "the focus of the Alliance will be on data collection and distribution applications for product marketing, the introduction and verification of e-commerce standards and food safety compliance, and integrated supply chain management in the swine and other livestock sectors."  GIC joining its partner, Simplum GmbH,  developer of a widely used digitalized food safety swine tracing software system for the European swine industry, in the Alliance and working with other European partners to expand the platform’s blockchain capabilities.