Food Safety: What’s Next to Assure Its Future?
February 2019
Why is food safety important?
Focus is on protecting consumers, achieving compliance and meeting customer requirements
88%
Safeguarding the health of consumers
69%
Laws and regulations
61%
Needs/requests from customers
The survey involved 1,643 professionals worldwide in companies within the food and beverage industry
Main risk areas
Lack of food safety culture is a rising risk
77% Operational risks
31% Lack of food safety culture
28%
Compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements
Actions to mitigate risks Systems and procedures are key, with food safety culture growing
LEADERS
97% 85%
Having a HACCP-based system
88% 68%
Procedures to ensure food safety from design
84%
88%
66%
64%
Operating a management system
Food safety culture program
Main beneďŹ ts from implemented actions LEADERS
81%
Improved legal compliance
49%
Decrease of incidents/recalls
Improved public image/brand reputation
40%
49%
61%
88%
Food safety is relevant for business strategies but need for focus remains high
69%
63%
A few companies see themselves as leading in food safety and more aspire to become leading in 3 years
49%
Great extent
21%
Today
3 years from now
Today
Leading
3 years from now
Willingness to invest in food safety Companies will continue to invest in the next 3 years
48%
More than today
42%
Same as today
Drivers for food safety system certiďŹ cation Ticket-to-trade and improvement of food safety programs are key
79%
Requirements from existing customers
D E V RO
APP
54%
Improve food safety program
46%
Requirements from new customers
BeneďŹ ts from certiďŹ cation Better prepared employees can help mitigate rising food safety culture risk
86% Improved ability to comply with legal requirements
79% Improved product quality/safer food
78% Better employee awareness and engagement
CertiďŹ cation adds value to companies and stakeholders Leaders in food safety achieve more beneďŹ ts than others
51%
Very much
88%
to some extent
72%
Very much
LEADERS
94%
to some extent
Certification cascades across the supply chain 3 out of 4 requires suppliers to be certified
70%
Most or all of them
77% LEADERS
Supplier certification is beneficial to companies
52%
Very much
65% LEADERS
SUPERMARKET
Digital technologies still need to be explored and this is expected to grow in the coming 3 years
Today
Great extent
9%
3 years' time
17%
LEADERS
48%
Great extent
37%
Digitalization will offer new opportunities New technologies will have different implementation paces
Sensors & beacons
44% Today in 3 Years
Blockchain
57%
Smart tags and labels
40% 15%
Big data analytics
38%
36% 10%
ArtiďŹ cial intelligence and machine learning
9%
3%
20%
LEADERS’ features
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Have food safety central in their strategies
Put consumer health at the top of everything
See food safety as key to their reputation
Are advanced in food safety culture
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Mitigate risks also with robust supply chain management
Will continue to invest in food safety
Capture significant value from certification
Are more demanding on supplier certification