GMO-ID Australia continues to celebrate the success of their Non-GMO standard. The standard has undergone a number of changes over the past 12 months with a view to meeting the particular conditions of the Australian food industry and our objective to delivering timely and simple certification.
GMO-ID also looked critically at the certification process and developed a model that would lower costs, simplify certification and improve customer responsiveness. The result of the changes has been well accepted by the industry.
“The Australian Food Industry is unique in many ways”, says Terry Moore, General Manager of GMO-ID Australia, “and we needed to ensure that the standard was not only world-class but met the requirements and common-sense approach of the industry”. “There is also a great opportunity for food manufacturers to combine Non-GMO certification with their current HACCP certifications and achieve significant cost savings on auditing costs”.
HACCP Australia’s experts in the field of certification and the food industry will deliver the new GMO-ID Australia programme which covers all type of product and manufacturing processes where the identification of non-GMO is of importance to the consumer.
Martin Stone, Director of HACCP Australia said:
“Australians are discerning and share the same concerns about GMO products as other consumers throughout the world. By adopting independent third party non-GMO certification, food manufacturers can offer retailers, and in turn consumers, the certainty that products have not been compromised with GM materials. This allows consumers to make an informed choice about what they purchase”.
For more information call 02 9956 6911 or go to www.gmoid.com.au
GMO Horizon Scanning
The EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) portal was put in place to provide food and feed control authorities with an effective tool to exchange information about serious risks detected in relation to food or feed. This exchange of information helps EU Member States to act more rapidly and in a coordinated manner in response to a health threat caused by food or feed. In the past 12 months, the following detections of unauthorised and illegal GMO have been registered;
