"supply chain risk control is not only a new FSMA requirement but is an important part of brand protection in today's food safety environment. HorizonScan is a great resource to better understand where the risks are in your supply chain, and thus better manage those risks."
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A techology-led solution for managing complex supply chains
HorizonScan is a collaborative software and data platform that provides top UK supermarkets, foodservice operators and manufacturers with previously unseen insight into their direct and indirect supply chains. This system will help keep you posted on hazard and risk assessments across all food sectors from around the world and specific issues that may concern you like fraud, microbial contaminants, residues of veterinary drugs, pesticide residues, mycotoxins, allergens, heavy metals, dioxins, PCBs and many more.
HorizonScan monitors commodity safety and integrity issues worldwide, collecting data daily from more than 100 food safety agencies and other reliable sources, delivering timely alerts on emerging food safety issues. It can help you to meet all consumer and regulatory demands for transparency and accountability across the ingredient supply chain, by identifying potential food safety threats before they become a problem.
You can use HorizonScan pro-actively to monitor food supply chain issues, from fraud and authenticity concerns, to pesticide or veterinary drug residues, environmental and other contaminants, microbiological problems, allergens and more.
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Pro-actively monitor food supply chain issues on a global scale.
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Keep your supply chain safe and your business running without interruption.
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Search by commodity, country of origin, type of threat, supplier and more.
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Set up automatic alerts for the commodities and issues most important to you.
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Supplier Check
Allowing you to check individual companies for previous commodity-specific references to food integrity issues in their supply chain.
Regular email alert
Regular email alerts related specifically to your commodity interests.
Searchable summaries
Searchable summary of all problems in individual commodities at an international level.
Data Coverage
We track 500+ commodities over 180 countries of origin including tracking 22,000+ suppliers. There are 30+ new entries nearly every day produced from over 180 global data sources.
Detailed breakdowns
Detailed breakdowns of fraud and authenticity issues.
Risk prioritisation for:
- Pesticides residues
- Veterinary drug residues
- Mycotoxin incidence
- Microbiological incidence
- Unlabelled allergens
- Fraud incidents
Links to original data sources
Each alert has contains a link to the data source for easy reference.
Where Science Meets Standards....HorizonScan Partners with Screen (BSI)
Leading science and business standards companies Fera and BSI recognise the issues facing the food sector and are responding to this by working together. The combined power of HorizonScan and SCREEN to deliver the latest risk based supply chain information is unfathomable, that is why both companies will be highlighting to customers the opportunities to be had by using their complimentary technology-led supply chain solution platform products simultaneously.
BSI is the business standards company whose range of supply chain security tools and network of experts around the world help companies evaluate their overall supply chain risk as well as the potential risks that specific suppliers may face. SCREEN (Supply Chain Risk Exposure Evaluation Network) is a web-based portal providing live risk-based heat maps, spotlight news, intelligence reports and country risk reports covering food safety and fraud, supply chain security, corporate social responsibility as well as environmental and business continuity.
Read more about the PartnershipSCREEN is used globally by the supply chain procurement, security, social responsibility and sustainability professionals of global importers, manufacturers, associations and governments to quantify supply chain risk in over 200 countries.
Being able to offer both solutions will help the food sector:-
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We can customise any of our existing Knowledge Solutions products (HorizonScan, FC24, and LIAISON) to fit your organisation's requirements. These products have a varying scope to provide a flexible service that can be tailored-made to suit your specific requirements.
Our products are the foundations for a specific bespoke system that can be suitable for a plethora of uses across the agri-food sector, providing up-to-date data from which to make key, informed business decisions.
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