Food Processing Sector Supplement now ready!

The Food Processing Sector Supplement is now available for downloading.

The main sector topics expanded to the G3 Guidelines are:

·         Sourcing

·         Labor/Management Relations

·         Healthy and Affordable Food

·         Public Policy

·         Costumer Health and Safety

·         Product and Service Labeling

·         Marketing Communications

·         Breeding and Genetics

·         Animal Husbandry

·         Transportation, Handling and Slaughter

Overview of Sector Items included in the Food Processing Sector Supplement (pdf)

Downloads

Food Processing Sector Supplement (zip):

·         Reporting Guidelines & Food Processing Sector Supplement (pdf)

·         FPSS Sourcing Indicator Protocols (pdf)

·         FPSS Economic Indicator Protocols (pdf)

·         FPSS Environmental Indicator Protocols (pdf)

·         FPSS Labor Indicator Protocols (pdf)

·         FPSS Human Rights Indicator Protocols (pdf)

·         FPSS Society Indicator Protocols (pdf)

·         FPSS Product Responsibility Indicator Protocols (pdf)

·         FPSS Animal Welfare Indicator Protocols (pdf)

Food Processing Toolkit (zip):

·         Food Processing Sector Supplement (zip)

·         An Introduction to the Food Processing Sector Supplement (pdf)

·         GRI Reporting in the Food Processing Sector in 2009 (pdf)

About the Food Processing Sector Supplement

Why produce a Sector Supplement for the Food Processing Sector?

The global trend in environmental awareness, paired with heightened consumer consciousness, sees food companies increasingly facing new expectations. Many are now seeking to proactively communicate the economic, environmental and social performance of their businesses.

To support food processors with their distinctive reporting needs, GRI decided to develop sector reporting guidance. The Supplement aims to provide a tool to make sure that reports effectively cover the key issues for the sector and to enhance the comparability of reports. 

Development process

The Supplement was developed in a two year process by a multi-stakeholder, geographically diverse Working Group through a consensus seeking process.

The process included two opportunities for public comment, where  interested sector experts were invited to submit their suggestions and comments on the drafts.

The final version of the Supplement was released in May 2010 at the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency.

Reporting with the Supplement will be required for GRI Application level A reporters published after 31 December 2011.

Find out more on the GRI Sector Supplement Development Process.

Working Group

The content of the Supplement was developed by a multi-stakeholder, geographically diverse Working Group, including:

Allianz Global Investors, Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge Brazil, Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), Danisco, FNV Bondgenoten, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Interface Trading, International Fair Trade Association (IFAT), International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Nestlé, New York University (NYU), Punjab Education Sector Reform Program (PESRP), Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS), Tyson Foods, Wilmar, World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) and Young’s Seafood Limited/Findus Group.

Get involved

Practitioners' Network

Discuss the use of the Supplement with report preparers, report readers, investors, academia, consultants and others at the GRI Food Processing Practitioners’ Network. If you are interested in joining this Practitioners’ Network, please send an email to guidelines@globalreporting.org with ‘Subscribe Food Processing' in the subject line and/or join the GRI Food Processing Network in LinkedIn.