Mars Global Food Safety Center 5th Anniversary
Mars Global Food Safety Center 5th Anniversary
Cheers for GFSC five years celebration!
Contact UsCheers for GFSC five years celebration!
Contact UsThe event which was hosted by the IFWRC and co-hosted by Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), provided a platform for interactive sessions among global experts as well as regional leaders in food and environmental markets.
Mars Inc. lent NATESC a hand in organizing the "Belt and Road" National Agricultural Products Production and Food Safety Seminar.
The National Agro-Technical Extension and Service Center (NATESC) and Mars Inc. jointly organized a foreign-aid training event including a Crop Seed Production and Management Seminar and a Agricultural Biotechnology Application Seminar" at Mars' Global Food Safety Center of Mars Inc. in Huairou, Beijing, to share China's policies, practices and experience with more than 40 agriculture experts from all over the world.
Safe food is a basic human right, yet each year millions of people around the globe become sick and die after eating contaminated food.
“The world must unite to eliminate unsafe food from our supply chains.” That was the message global leaders shared at the world’s first International Conference on Food Safety in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia earlier this year.
On November 28 and 29, 2018 Dr. Abigail Stevenson, Director of the Mars Global Food Safety Center (GFSC) participated in the 17th Annual Food Safety Forum hosted by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. During the forum, Abigail provided an opening keynote entitled "The role industry can play in driving safe food" and took part in a discussion panel entitled "Food safety as a shared responsibility" on day two.
Dr Kai Zhong, Deputy Director of the China Food Information Center, talking about how to address the emerging global threat of food fraud.
Reflecting on my first few months in China as Director of the Mars Global Food Safety Center (GFSC) in Huairou, Beijing, the pace of change is something that strikes me the most. Although it’s visible in daily life through building development and creation of services like high speed train links, changes in the virtual world are perhaps even more impressive. China is now the world’s largest e-commerce market for example, accounting for almost half of worldwide retail e-commerce sales.