International Featured Standards (IFS) Management GmbH recently announced that it will utilize the Intact Analytics solution from Intact to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to food safety, starting with the IFS Food Standard. Intact Analytics uses AI, machine learning, and natural language processing to interpret complex audit data, making it accessible, transparent, and readable.
By adopting Intact Analytics, IFS is becoming the first global food safety standard owner using AI to make certification and standard decisions. Intact Analytics turns complex audit data into intuitive and easy-to-use insights displayed on user-friendly dashboards that identify anomalies and root causes within enormous data sets. Identifying audit issues improves risk-based decision making, standards setting, and planning throughout the system.
“IFS has always counted on technological progress to develop standards of the highest possible quality,” says Stephan Tromp, managing director of IFS. “Artificial intelligence has been a big topic in our organization for a while. We have already applied AI for the IFS Trend Risk Monitor and IFS WordCloud—an analysis of public food safety alerts—to identify possible risks along the supply chain for our IFS clients. The usage of the Intact Analytics tool will now take us to the next level and increase the quality of our standards, greatly benefiting all partners and certified companies.”
“The initial Intact Analytics system was developed to help certification bodies and standard owners make use of their enormous amounts of valuable data,” says Jochen Kleboth, head of data and business analytics at Intact. “For us, it was obvious that the right solution would offer enormous potential for increased efficiency and integrity. We are thrilled to work with a client like IFS after five years of product development. The partnership confirms our strategy and indicates a huge advancement for the food safety industry as a whole.”
In addition to the partnership with IFS in Europe, Intact is also working with various U.S. entities to improve food safety at the national and international levels. With these initial pilot projects’ successes, the groundbreaking Intact Analytics software solution is now available for standard owners, certification bodies, and manufacturers of all sizes.