Introducing the Food Quality Alliance: A Total Management Solution

Anaheim, Calif. — Whether it’s developing and testing new food products, ensuring compliance with expanding food safety and supply chain mandates, coordinating and hosting growing numbers of annual audits, or managing crucial client relationships, quality assurance (QA) managers in the food and beverage industry face rapidly escalating time and resource demands. To help alleviate these mounting pressures, The Global ID Group announced today the formation of the Food Quality Alliance, a consortium of proven leaders in food safety and quality working together to provide a single source of over 40 essential testing, training and certification services. Launching in Q2 2015, the Alliance will provide QA teams with an integrated platform with which to centrally manage their growing array of responsibilities.
 
The Alliance will offer products and services from the Global ID Group (CERT ID, Genetic ID and FoodChain ID) and its fellow founding members.
 
Through CERT ID, the Alliance will offer multiple food safety certification services (BRC, SQF, Global G.A.P., ISO 22000) and training programs. Through Genetic ID, customers will gain access to a portfolio of pathogen, allergen, authenticity, speciation and GMO testing services. FoodChain ID will offer consulting and advisory services on international non-GMO regulatory policies and help companies obtain Non-GMO Project Verification for products sold in North America, or Ohne Gentechnik and Danube Soy certification in the European Union.
 
Other Alliance members include CCOF (California Certified Organic Farmers), the leading organic certifier in the U.S; the Orthodox Union, the world’s leading provider of kosher certification; and The Acheson Group LLC, global experts in managing operational, regulatory and reputational risks for the food industry along with crisis and recall management. The Alliance will also include laboratory partners providing a full array of chemical and nutritional testing services.
 
“As regulatory requirements and market demands on food companies continue to grow, QA departments often find themselves struggling to keep up with the rigors of compliance,” said Ron Stakland, Global ID Group vice president of business development. “From food safety to sustainability to specialized niches like gluten-free and kosher, much of the work for assuring safe and compliant food products and ingredients falls on the QA department. At the same time, the need to stay competitive and keep costs in check has never been greater. The purpose of the Alliance is to offer QA managers a simpler way to manage multiple services.”
 
Customers of the Food Quality Alliance will benefit in several important ways: assistance in managing multiple programs, stacking multiple audits, optimized scheduling, access to SupplyTrak compliance management software and discounts on bundled services.
 
To learn more about the Food Quality Alliance, visit www.foodqualityalliance.com. Attendees of the Natural Products Expo West 2015 trade show in Anaheim, Calif. are invited to attend a special panel discussion, “Non-GMO and Beyond!,” at 3-4 p.m. PST on March 6 in the Marriott's Platinum Ballroom 3.
 
About Global ID
The Global ID Group (www.global-id-group.com) is a diversified food safety and food quality company. With offices in the U.S., Germany, the U.K. and Brazil, Global ID has been a leader in certification, training and testing services for two decades. Through its subsidiaries (CERT ID, Genetic ID and FoodChain ID) Global ID provides products and services to the food industry to meet rapidly growing demands for verified compliance with global industry requirements. In addition, the company provides supply chain compliance services to the food and agricultural industry via its proprietary software platform, SupplyTrak, used globally by more than 2,000 food companies. Worldwide, Global ID serves over 15,000 customers in more than 100 countries, including many of the world’s largest food and agricultural enterprises.