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Intergovernmental Global Organisations
- Codex Alimentarius
Codex standards ensure that food is safe and can be traded. The 188 Codex members have negotiated science based recommendations in all areas related to food safety and quality. Codex food safety texts are a reference in WTO trade disputes.
- Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
Their is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With over 194 member states, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide. They believe that everyone can play a part in ending hunger.
- INTERPOL
INTERPOL enables police in our 194 member countries to work together to fight international crime. We provide a range of policing expertise and capabilities, supporting three main crime programmes: Counter-terrorism, Cybercrime, and Organized and emerging crime.
- World Customs Organisation
The World Customs Organization (WCO), established in 1952 as the Customs Co-operation Council (CCC) is an independent intergovernmental body whose mission is to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of Customs administrations.
- World Health Organisation
The WHO is the directing and coordinating authority on international health within the United Nations’ system
- World Trade Organisation
The WTO is an organization for trade opening. It is a forum for governments to negotiate trade agreements. It is a place for them to settle trade disputes. It operates a system of trade rules. Essentially, the WTO is a place where member governments try to sort out the trade problems they face with each other.
NGO's
- Calorie Control Council
The Calorie Control Council, established in 1966, is an international association representing the low- and reduced-calorie food and beverage industry.
- CDP
CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The world’s economy looks to CDP as the gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action.
- Crop life International
Champions the role of agricultural innovations in crop protection and plant biotechnology to support and advance sustainable agriculture.
- GFSI - The Global Food Safety Initiative
The Global Food Safety Initiative is a private organization, established and managed by the international trade association, the Consumer Goods Forum under Belgian law in May 2000. The GFSI maintains a scheme to benchmark food safety standards for manufacturers as well as farm assurance standards.
- Global GAP
The GLOBALG.A.P. Certificate, also known as the Integrated Farm Assurance Standard (IFA), covers Good Agricultural Practices for agriculture, aquaculture, livestock and horticulture production. It also covers additional aspects of the food production and supply chain such as Chain of Custody and Compound Feed Manufacturing.
- ICBA - The International Council of Beverages Associations
The International Council of Beverages Associations (“ICBA”) drives the strategic agenda among global beverage association members and is the voice for the beverage industry before global policy-setting forums such as the United Nations and its related agencies.
- IDH - The Sustainable Trade Initiative
The Sustainable Trade Initiative brings governments, companies, CSOs and financiers together in action driven coalitions. They orchestrate the powers of law, of entrepreneurship and investments to work together to create solutions for global sustainability issues at scale.
- IFAC - International Food Additives Council
The International Food Additives Council is a global association representing manufacturers and end-users of food ingredients, including food additives.
- IFOAM – Organics International
The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements is the worldwide umbrella organization for the organic agriculture movement, which represents close to 800 affiliates in 117 countries.
- ISBT – The International Society of Beverage Technologists
The ISBT (formerly SSDT) was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1953 and now consists of over 1,000 members worldwide. It is unique in being the only organization whose sole interest is the technical and scientific aspects of soft drinks and beverages.
- ISO - The International Organization for Standardization
The International Organization for Standardization is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded on 23 February 1947, the organization promotes worldwide proprietary, industrial, and commercial standards.
- JuicyChain
JuicyChain is a blockchain-based traceability platform, designed to support improved transparency, accelerate the uptake of sustainable juice volumes and support customer and consumer-facing communication on sustainable juice.
JuicyChain is managed by a non-profit foundation, initiated by Refresco and Eckes Granini, and supported by IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative. JuicyChain is developing the blockchain solution together with The New Fork as its IT-Provider.
Companies can become members or active members in the JuicyChain Foundation.
- SAI platform
SAI Platform is a non-profit network of over 120 members worldwide. Vision
- A sustainable, thriving and resilient agricultural sector that protects the earth’s resources, human rights and animal welfare and delivers value to our members and across our whole supply chains.
- SEDEX
Sedex is a membership organisation that provides one of the world’s leading online platforms for companies to manage and improve working conditions in global supply chains
- SGF
The main task of SGF (Sure-Global-Fair) is to monitor juice products on the global market, thus ensuring fair competition. Their mission is to be the leading independent industrial self-control platform for fruit juices, fruit nectars and other products made from fruits and vegetables.
- SJC - The Sustainable Juice Covenant
The Sustainable Juice Covenant (SJC) is an international initiative of leading players in the juice sector that join forces to improve the sustainability of juice supply chains across the globe. SJC members have committed to the target of 100% sustainable sourcing by 2030.
- WAPA – World Apple and Pear Association
WAPA is an industry body established in 2001 to provide a global forum for representatives of apple and pear producing countries. The Association harnesses the collective strength of all members´ inputs to foster and enhance business opportunities for the collective benefit of both sectors.
- WCO – World Citrus Organisation
The World Citrus Organisation (WCO) is a global platform for dialogue and action that brings together citrus producing countries. The primary objective of the WCO is to facilitate collective action in the citrus sector, for both fresh and processed categories.
- WPTC - World Processing Tomato Council
The World Processing Tomato Council (WPTC) is an international non-profit making organization representing the tomato processing industry worldwide. Currently, its members represent more than 95% of the volume of tomatoes processed worldwide
Nutrition & Health
- Fruit Juice Science Centre
The Fruit Juice Science Centre is a science information body funded by donations from a wide range of orange producers, juice manufacturers and packaging companies based in Europe and Brazil.
Their mission is to provide evidence-based information to consumers, journalists and health professionals on the role of 100% fruit juice in diets and health.
- Sip Smarter - Juice Products Association
Juice Products Association site including information on the health benefits of juice plus lots more
Organic
- IFOAM Organics International
IFOAM - Organics International build capacity to facilitate the transition of farmers to organic agriculture, raise awareness of the need for sustainable production and consumption, and advocate for a policy environment conducive to agro-ecological farming practices and sustainable development.
- USDA Organic Integrity Database
Find a specific certified organic farm or business, or search for an operation with specific characteristics. Listings come from USDA-Accredited Certifying Agents. Historical Annual Lists of Certified Organic Operations and monthly snapshots of the full data set are available for download on the Data History page. Only certified operations can sell, label or represent products as organic, unless exempt or excluded from certification.
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