What is the Global Harmonization Initiative?

In an attempt to eliminate hurdles, a network of scientific organizations has launched a global initiative to facilitate harmonization of food safety regulations and legislation. The objective is to discuss, globally, the scientific issues that buttress the decisions made by individual governments and international regulatory bodies in order to achieve global scientific consensus on such issues. The Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI) Working Group anticipates that elimination of the regulatory differences will make it more attractive for the private sector to invest in food safety R&D, consequently strengthening the competitiveness of each nation's food industry and of the industries supplying the food sector. Harmonizing global regulations will facilitate the application of new technologies, encouraging the food industry to invest in such technologies to ensure better safety and quality for consumers!


What is GHI? - Background

Founded in 2004 as a joint activity of the US-based Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) International Division and the European Federation of Food Science and Technology (EFFoST), the Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI) is a network of scientific organizations and individual scientists working together to promote harmonization of global food safety regulations and legislation.

GHI Newsletter April/June 2013

You may download the April/June Newsletter by clicking on the link below:

GHI Newsletter Issue April/June 2013

Conference Global Food Contact in Barcelona

14-16 May 2013

For more information, please download the PDF below:

Global Food Contact, Barcelona

General GHI meeting during the IFT Annual Meeting and Expo

on Sunday, 14 July 2013 - 10:30 AM – 12:00 AM

McCormick Place South, Chicago, Illinois USA

For more information, please download the preliminary agenda below:

GHI meeting IFT AM preliminary agenda

Meetings with GHI involvement

Invitation to the Conference in Food Quality and Safety & Hygienic Engineering and Design 2013 - Macedonia

We have the honour of inviting you to the Conference in Food Quality and Safety and Hygienic Engineering and Design 2013 - Macedonia, which will take place from 19th to 20th September 2013, in Skopje, Macedonia
Conference web page: www.jhed.mk/categories/view/436

GHI Newsletter January/March 2013

You may download the January/March Newsletter by clicking on the link below:

GHI Newsletter Issue January/March 2013

GHI Newsletter October/December 2012

You may download the October/December Newsletter by clicking on the link below:

GHI Newsletter Issue October/December 2012

GHI Newsletter July/September 2012

You may download the July/September Newsletter by clicking on the link below:

GHI Newsletter Issue July/September 2012

GHI Newsletter May/June 2012

You may download the May/June 2012 Newsletter by clicking on the link below:

GHI Newsletter Issue May/June 2012

To download the Idriss Food Security Report 2012, please go to www.globalharmonization.net/idriss2012

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