DNV Business Assurance is a world leading certification body. We work with our customers to assure the performance of their products, processes and organisations through certification, assessment and training services. Within the food and beverage industry, we help our customers worldwide to achieve excellence within food safety and quality, environmental management, supply chain management and product sustainability. As part of DNV, we belong to a network of 8600 employees within 300 offices in 100 countries.

 The combination of Kraft Foods and Cadbury creates a global powerhouse in snacks, confectionary and quick meals. With annual revenues of approximately 50 billion dollar, the combined company is the world's second largest food company, making delicious products for billions of consumers in more than 160 countries. The combined company's portfolio includes 11 iconic brands with revenues exceeding one billion dollar- Oreo, Nabisco and LU biscuits; Milka and Cadbury chocolates; Trident gums; Jacobs and Maxwell House coffees; Philadelphia cream cheeses; Kraft cheeses, dinners and dressings; and Oscar Mayer meats. Another 70 + brands generate annual revenues of more than 100 million dollar. Kraft Foods (www.kraftfoodscompany.com ; NYSE:KFT) is a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Standard & Poor's 500, Dow Jones Sustainability Index and Ethibel Sustainability Index.

Sparta Systems’ global quality management solutions enable high-value organizations to safely and efficiently deliver products and services to market. Its TrackWise® Enterprise Quality Management Software, a trusted standard among highly regulated industries, is used by quality, manufacturing and regulatory affairs professionals to manage compliance, reduce risk and improve safety across the global enterprise. Headquartered in New Jersey, USA and with locations across Europe and Asia, Sparta Systems maintains an extensive install base in the life science, food and beverage, and consumer packaged goods markets.

How can 3M support maximised food safety? 3M offers a complete range of food safety, hygiene management and quality monitoring solutions to enable customer safety. The well-known 3M™Petrifilm™Count Plates products, 3M™ Clean-Trace hygiene monitoring products, ATP-based UHT milk sterility tests, sampling and sample preparation products, rapid tests, laboratory consumables for environmental monitoring, and quality control in a wide range of industrial applications will help you to maximise your food safety, plant hygiene and enable customer well-being.

The relationship between food and health plays a key role in our highly industrialised food supply. Food safety is another crucial aspect. TNO assists the food sector and the authorities through research and consultancy to achieve their targets with respect to healthy and safe food. In addition, TNO researches and develops innovative food concepts.

DSM Nutritional Products is the world's leading supplier of vitamins, carotenoids and other fine chemicals to the feed, food, pharmaceutical and personal care industries. The business has sales of over EUR 2 billion and a long tradition as a pioneer in the discovery of new products, new formulations and attractive applications for all industry segments.