Session Title: Leading Standards and Companies Change the Future of Seafood Traceability

Session Description: Retailers face some of the largest risks when it comes to brand reputation, and robust, full-chain product traceability is an excellent tool for companies to bring more transparency to their supply chains and validate the legality, sustainability, and social responsibility claims being made by their suppliers.  In the seafood industry, the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST) has developed groundbreaking standards for electronic and interoperable traceability that enables effective, reliable and affordable solutions across the supply chain. This session will bring together industry leaders to share their stories of why implementing the GDST standards is a business-smart decision, has helped them reduce various risks in their supply chains, and how utilization of the standards has already provided numerous benefits across their company and to their customers.

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Speakers:

Traci LINDER

Manager, Global Seafood Traceability

World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Carrie BROWNSTEIN

Principal Quality Standards Advisor, Seafood

Whole Foods Market

Britta GALLUS

Head of Corporate Responsibility

METRO AG

Session objectives:

• Learn about how the GDST standards provide risk assurance to companies across important topics like product legality, sustainability, and food safety, through enabling real-time data exchange, lot-based traceability, and providing authoritative sources for verifying reported data.
• Understand the importance of industry-wide implementation of the GDST standards to tackle global problems that retailers and wholesalers are committed to solving to achieve effective supply chain traceability and lower the costs of implementation for all companies.
• Learn about the companies that are already utilizing the GDST standards to achieve numerous business benefits and the opportunity that retailers have to drive uptake of these standards across the industry.