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Food Advisory Consumer Service (FACS)

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The Food Advisory Consumer Service (FACS) was established in 1995 to provide the consumer and the media with correct and relevant information on a variety of food and nutrition issues. Consumers are often confused with myths and sensational misinformation about food and diets. The explosion of the internet and social media has fuelled misinformation about food facts. FACS offers free access to food facts and nutritional information.

The Food Advisory Consumer Service (FACS) information is sourced from local and overseas food and nutrition professionals and credible science-based organisations. FACS is run voluntarily and administered and funded by the South African Association for Food Science and Technology (SAAFoST) – a non-profit, scientific organisation for food and other science professionals in South Africa.

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Fresh Produce Exporters Forum (FPEF)

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The Fresh Produce Exporters’ Forum (FPEF) is a voluntary, non-profit organisation with more than 140 members, accounting for about 90% of fresh produce exported from South Africa. The FPEF is also a member of Fruit South Africa (FSA), together with the country’s five growers’ associations. This position strengthens the FPEF’s role of providing leadership and services to its members, the international buying community and the fresh produce export industry as a whole.

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Furniture Bedding and Upholstery Manufacturers Association (FBUMA)

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FBUMA serves as the collective entity of employers (businesses) in our Industry and is therefore registered (in terms of the Labour Relations Act) as an Employers Organisation.

FBUMA represents its members in collective bargaining with Unions at Industry level. These negotiations take place at the Furniture Bargaining Council and include negotiations of wages and conditions of service for the majority of employers in our Industry.

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Faculty of Consulting Physicians of South Africa (FCPSA)

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Recent years have proven that consulting disciplines and smaller sub-specialties within the consulting groups have had poor representation at the previous SPPC or have not been represented at all. This is specifically relevant to dealing with coding matters and dispute resolution with medical schemes. It is envisaged that within a consolidated FCPS the FCPSA representatives will have a proper mandate to represent the interests of its members, including all sub-specialties.

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Forestry South Africa (FSA)

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Forestry South Africa (FSA) is South Africa’s premier and largest forestry organisation representing growers of timber in South Africa. The Association’s membership includes all 11 corporate forestry companies active in the Industry, approximately 1 300 commercial timber farmers and some 20 000 emergent small scale growers who between them own or control no less than 93% of the total plantation area in the country. Given these credentials FSA is regarded by Government and the private sector alike as being the Industry’s “representative body”.

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