GMA-SAFE

Core Competency:  The GMA-SAFE assessment platform represents a potential food industry savings of $5 billion/year worldwide.   The GMA- SAFE assessment is a thorough description of a food production, handling or storage facility’s policies and practices, documented by a skilled auditing practitioner and communicated through a web based data management & reporting system that allows individual users of the assessment to determine if the audited facility will meet their own standards.  GMA-SAFE’s core competency is built upon (1) the fact that it does not discriminate among standards employed by the food industry throughout the world and (2) the reality that no single set of standards could ever be adopted worldwide that would simultaneously drive both safety and economic efficiency.   The GMA-SAFE platform is currently employed as a single vehicle by many, measuring performance against any standards, eliminating redundant audits prevalent throughout the industry today.  

Background: The GMA-SAFE Assessment consists of approximately 630 questions to be answered by the auditor.  It provides sufficient information to any assessment user to determine whether the inspected facility meets the needs of a company’s, an association’s or a personal consultant’s standards/requirements.  The data can be sorted, scored and analyzed for trends by any user through a sophisticated set of web-based electronic tools.