text: Our objective is the establishment of standards which shall guarantee the product safety of all relevant product portfolios of the private labels of retail. Quality management and process safety, together with the responsibility of all parties involved in the safety of traded products, has been the yardstick for our standards in the past and will continue to be our yardstick in the future. International featured standards – IFS – the development of an umbrella brand for product safety of all private labels of European retailers is our challenge and our response to globalise trade channel