Feb 8, 2010 12:00 PM, By MICHAEL GARRY

PHOENIX — By pursuing food safety certification based on Safe Quality Food (SQF) standards for its manufacturing/warehousing facilities, Meijer, Grand Rapids, Mich., is preparing itself to meet any new federal food safety laws passed by Congress this year, said Robert Mooney, Meijer's group vice president, distribution and manufacturing.

“If you're compliant with SQF level three, you're almost compliant with the regulations being proposed,” said Mooney in a food safety presentation he delivered last week at the Supply Chain Conference here, sponsored by the FMI-GMA Trading Partner Alliance. “The nomenclature in the bills is the same as the nomenclature in SQF. So SQF makes it easier to figure out what's going on.”

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