Executive Summary: GS1 Product Recall Program – Grocery

Primary Message: Leverage an industry driven, standards-based product recall communication tool that will enhance your organization’s product recall processes, reduce your administrative burden and cost, and ensure that unsafe products are recalled more effectively and in a timely manner. Problem: Canadian organizations are overwhelmed by the administrative burden and cost required to support the high volume of product safety incidents, recalls, and withdrawals, increasing government legislative requirements, non standard proprietary trading partner forms, and overall consumer expectations for a safer supply chain. Companies continuously review opportunities to enhance and standardize their existing product recall processes to ensure that when a safety incident or product recall occurs, they have the mechanisms in place to manage it effectively and in a timely manner. Solution: GS1 Canada Product Recall, a standards based recall and withdrawal communication tool built by industry for industry and managed by a neutral not-for-profit organization. This communication tool enables all trading partners to collaborate and share mission critical product recall and withdrawal information in a standardized and timely manner, ensuring that potentially unsafe products can be recalled effectively and efficiently. What is GS1 Canada Product Recall Program: The GS1 Canada Product Recall Program is the single source of truth where Canadian retailers, distributors and manufacturers can share standardized, accurate and timely product recall related information, including: ffStandardized notifications product images, etc) ffProduct recall updates shared simultaneously with all trading partners ffReal time effectiveness ffReports to support check reports government requirements ffComplete and accurate mission critical product recall ffProduct safety documentation ffReports to support internal attributes and documentation process efficiencies ffIncident reports (press releases, store posters, GS1 Canada Product Recall Program Features: ffA single source of truth: Receive all recall ffAlignment with government regulations: notifications in a standardized form through Satisfy all government reporting requirements one centralized location ffPeer-to-Peer communication: Communicate ffVisibility to recall status: Receive all required and collaborate directly with trading partner recalls and updates down to the store level recall/quality teams instead of relying on buyers with immediate effectiveness reporting and other internal departments as gatekeepers of critical information, which currently cause bottlenecks

GS1 Canada™ is a member of GS1, the world’s leading supply chain standards organization. As a neutral, not-for-profit organization, GS1 Canada enables its more than 20,000 members – organizations of all sizes from over 20 sectors across Canada – to enhance their efficiency and cost effectiveness by adopting electronic supply chain best practices. Ver. 03/2012 For more information, contact GS1 Canada at 1.800.567.7084 ext. 3 or visit www.gs1ca.org Executive Summary: GS1 Canada Product Recall Program – Grocery

u Reduce administrative burden and costs: As a retailer, reduce manual rekeying of As a manufacturer, reduce manual rekeying information by integrating the standard of information for each trading partner by information within your internal systems via XML export form for all your trading partners

u Real-time industry and vendor benchmarking and reports: Leverage the data in the GS1 CanadaProduct Recall Program by producing reports and statistics to support process improvements and industry trends. Industry process: u u The industry form and processes are integrated the process and standard attributes required within the Global Product Recall Program hosted for recall or withdrawal communications by Hewlett-Packard and managed by GS1 Canada u Alignment with legislative requirements and u Industry pilot(s) test functionality based on inclusion of government agencies within the business requirements workshop process as required and requested u Program is launched based on industry readiness by industry

Grocery Status: u GS1 Canada Product Recall launched in 2009 u Enhancements planned for Q3 2012

Industry Participants Retailers Manufacturers Kellogg Canada Inc. Buy-Low Foods Ltd. Baxters Canada Inc. Kruger Products L.P. Canada Ltd. Burnbrae Farms Limited McCain Foods Ltd. Co-op Atlantic Cavendish Farms Nestle Purina Pet Care Longo Brothers Fruit Clover Leaf Seafoods L.P. Red Bull Canada, Ltd. Markets Inc. Dare Foods Ltd. S.C. Johnson and Son Ltd. Metro Inc. Del Monte Canada Inc. Smucker Foods of Canada Corp. The Country Grocer E.D. Smith Foods Ltd. Unilever Canada The H.J. Heinz Company Distributors Wal-Mart Canada Inc. of Canada LP Karrys Wholesale Distributors Hershey Canada Inc.

For more information on GS1 Canada Product Recall, contact Alan Grant, Senior Director, Product Safety, GS1 Canada at 416-510-8039 ext. 2264 or [email protected].. Subscribe Today! Go to recall.gs1ca.org

GS1 Canada™ is a member of GS1, the world’s leading supply chain standards organization. As a neutral,

Ver. 03/2012 For more information, contact GS1 Canada at 1.800.567.7084 ext. 3 or visit www.gs1ca.org