“…References (Authors) assurance of food safety for prevention, not by inspection (Bauman, 1992;Huss, 1994;Forsythe, 2002;CAC, 2003;Deodhar, 2003;Zugarramurdi et al, 2007;Jin et al, 2008;Lupin et al, 2010;Fotopoulos et al, 2011;Macheka et al, 2013); may be applicate in food chain (Forsythe, 2002;CAC, 2003;Deodhar, 2003;Hartog, 2003) improvement in product quality (Forsythe, 2002;CAC, 2003;Deodhar, 2003;Hartog 2003;Zugarramurdi et al, 2007;Fotopoulos et al, 2011); assist in new markets (HUSS, 1994;Forsythe, 2002;Maldonado et al, 2005;Khatri & Collins, 2007) improvement in brand image (Huss, 1995;Forsythe, 2002;Khatri & Collins, 2007;Jin et al, 2008) cost reduction (Huss, 1995;Khatri & Collins, 2007;Fotopoulos et al, 2011;Dora et al, 2013) created a structure for certification of companies in the sector called Feed & Food Safety, providing three levels of certification: 1 for GMP, 2 for HACCP, which includes GMP, and 3 for certification with International equivalence, which includes HACCP. Among the 123 feed and food manufacturing companies associated with SINDIRAÇÕES up to November 2016, 3 units had a level 3 certification, 16 had HACCP certification (level 2) and 34 GMP certification (level 1).…”