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SPINS acquires FoodFacts

SPINS will now be able to add FoodFacts' data dictionary, algorithms for coding complex intolerances and robust product health scoring, as well as its consumer profiles, recommendation engines and patents into its portfolio.
April 16, 2018
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SPINS, a Chicago-based provider of retail consumer insights, analytics and consulting for the natural, organic and specialty products industries, acquired FoodFacts Inc., an Edison, N.J.-based consumer awareness platform for transparency into nutrition data, ingredients, allergens and sensitivities.
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BRC Global Standards acquires Allergen Control Group

This investment extends BRC GS' food safety supply chain assurance standards business into a new vertical.
April 16, 2018
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BRC Global Standards (BRC GS), London, announced plans to acquire Allergen Control Group, Inc. (ACG), the London-based owner and operator of the Gluten-Free Certification Program (GFCP).
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GFSI, International Accreditation Forum partner to strengthen food safety benchmarks

The agreement confirms that GFSI and its benchmarked Certification Program Owners (CPOs) will make effective use of the IAF Multilateral Recognition Arrangement (MLA).
April 6, 2018
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The International Accreditation Forum (IAF), Paris, and the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), a Silver Spring, Md.-based pillar of The Consumer Goods Forum, announced a new partnership as part of an ongoing strategy to strengthen collaboration for consumers worldwide.
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Global ID acquires Bioagricert

Bioagricert provides organic certification services according to Italian national and international standards, as well as product quality certification services and other certifications.
December 5, 2017
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The Global ID Group, a Fairfield, Iowa-based division of Paine Schwartz Partners, LLC, acquired Bioagricert, a leading certification and control body company based in Bologna, Italy.
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Savour Food Safety International acquires Sherwin Food Safety, forms Savor Food Safe

Savor Safe Food, also based in Worthington, will expand upon the food safety services.
May 31, 2017
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Gina Nicholson Kramer, RS/REHS, executive director for Savour Food Safety International, Worthington, Ohio, joined her husband, Bob Kramer, RS/REHS, and five other partners (Vince Fasone, Barb Hunt, Joe Kramer, Miguel Manzano and Gerry Nunn) to purchase Sherwin Food Safety, Baltimore, Md., and re-named it Savor Safe Food.
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GLOBALG.A.P. adopts greenfence platform technology to expand agriculture, aquaculture certifications

greenfence is said to be the first digital platform economy to empower a fully transparent farm-to-fork eco-system for the global food and beverage industry.
September 14, 2016
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GLOBALG.A.P., Palo Alto, Calif., adopted greenfence’s platform technology to directly connect GLOBALG.A.P.'s global standards and certification services at all levels of supply and demand value chains.
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