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HorizonScan

HorizonScan
Protecting your supply chain

Protecting your supply chain

Introducing HorizonScan

Fera’s HorizonScan provides food safety professionals with a comprehensive, scientific

basis for assessing supply chain commodity procurement risks. HorizonScan is a web-
based information service collecting data daily from over 110 food safety agencies to
deliver timely alerts on emerging food fraud and safety issues affecting the global supply
chain.

HorizonScan can help you keep ahead of the game by daily monitoring of emerging, new
and novel issues in the commodities you use, wherever you might source them.

The system can also aid with the data needed to complete your vulnerability assessments
for BRCGS in the prevention of food fraud from adulteration, substitution, fraudulent
documentation to expiry date changes, production in unapproved premises, production with
inspection, and unsuitable means of transport.

Why HorizonScan?

You can check the latest food integrity issue that your supplier has
had as well as its historical ones
When planning to start buying from a new country, you will be able
to check for food integrity issues being reported in commodities
exported from that part of the world
You will be able to see the contaminant trends over the years, giving you the
opportunity to approach the future with a more proactive way
You will be able to see the exporting trends over the years, allowing you to anticipate
potential issues in your food supply chain
You will have the data needed to undertake your vulnerability assessment

Benefits

HorizonScan covers 550+ commodities across 180+ countries for instances of food fraud,
pesticides and drug residues, foreign objects, mycotoxins, allergens, GMOs, heavy metals,
dioxins, PCBs and PAHs. It’s an excellent risk mitigation tool to protect brands and help
procurement professionals buy with greater confidence.

Coverage
HorizonScan offers access to a rapid overview of potential and emerging food safety
issues.
Emerging issues
HorizonScan is updated daily, enabling searches for issues emerging in the past 14 to 28
days.

Daily email updates

Customize daily or weekly updates keeping you up to date with relevant issues according to
your data preferences.

Supplier check
Check companies for commodity-specific references to food safety issues in their supply
chain.

Is HorizonScan the tool for your business?

HorizonScan is perfect for supply chain managers with multiple

ingredient responsibilities and complex international supply chains,
or companies looking for new supply options, this system enables
you to conduct top line investigations and be alerted to issues very
quickly.

Avoid problems

80% of problems an organization end up solving, start as a fault in the supply chain.
HorizonScan enables the organization to have an early warning of potential issues to
ensure faults don’t become problems

Compliance

Demonstrates compliance with 3rd party food schemes – BRCGS, FSSC, SQF

Intelligence

It enables 2nd party auditors to be informed before they

visit suppliers and to ask the right questions

Facts, Figures & Features

Facts & Figures
550+ commodities tracked
180+ countries of origin
110+ global data sources
30+ new reports per day
110,000+ total incident records
22,000+ suppliers
24/7/365 access
 Features
Flexible search
Supplier check
Daily global coverage
Information bulletins
Email alerts
Risk prioritisation

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