SGS and its regulatory intelligence platform SGS Digicomply partnered with Agroknow to create SGS Nexus, a unified platform designed to help food companies anticipate regulatory change and manage safety risks across global supply chains.
“With SGS Nexus, we're not just merging technologies – we're establishing a new global standard for food intelligence,” says Géraldine Picaud, CEO of SGS. “This platform reflects our Strategy 27 ambition to build trust through digital ecosystems and reinforces our role as an independent partner helping clients navigate growing regulatory and safety complexity.”
“Our goal is to become the go-to intelligence layer for food companies worldwide,” says Nikos Manouselis, CEO of Agroknow. “By combining regulatory data, food safety incidents and machine learning in a single environment, we’re transforming how risk is assessed, managed and prevented.”
Key takeaways:
· The platform will bring together SGS’s global quality and inspection expertise, Agroknow’s food risk analytics, and SGS Digicomply’s real-time regulatory intelligence. The combined platform will enable food companies to monitor regulatory changes, identify emerging safety risks and generate audit-ready evidence across their supplier networks.
· Over the next 12 months, SGS Nexus will roll out a unified platform combining the capabilities of SGS Digicomply and Agroknow while introducing new tools to help food companies manage safety, compliance and supplier risk more proactively.
· Key capabilities will include tracking of food laws, standards, regulatory updates and safety alerts worldwide and mapping them to product portfolios and ingredients; using machine learning across recalls, import refusals, border rejections and monitoring programs to identify early warning signals before risks escalate; transforming external data into structured evidence and audit-ready reports, aligned with major standards such as GFSI, FSMA, and customer requirements; helping teams prioritize lab testing budgets and ingredient approvals based on real-world risk profiles and historical incident patterns; enabling benchmarking of suppliers using external risk scores and incident data, supporting annual audit planning and proactive sourcing decisions; and allowing teams to ask complex regulatory or risk questions in plain language and receive relevant insights and recommendations instantly.
· The company will also offer Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) channels allowing organizations to integrate food safety and regulatory intelligence directly into PLM systems, ERP tools and custom risk models.
