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Global Certification of Food and Feed Safety: GlobalGAP International Farm Assurance

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stablished in 1996 by food retailers
in response to BSE and a long
line of food safety crises affecting
consumer confidence and consump-
tion, GlobalGAP has developed farm
assurance standards in a full range of
product areas including crops, livestock,
aquaculture and livestock feed.
GlobalGAP standards are rigorously veri-
fied by independent third party certification
bodies who themselves have to meet exact-
ing accreditation requirements and surveil-
lance by GlobalGAP to ensure integrity and
trust in the certification process.
Going global
GlobalGAP is the largest and the most
international farm assurance scheme world-
wide with more than 100,000 producers
certified annually to ISO65 standards and in
more than 100 countries.
With more than 45 retail chains using its
standards to meet both consumer demands
as well as national and international legisla-
tion certification is set to increase even fur-
ther in response to the globalisation of food
production and sourcing where producers
look to open up new markets and develop
existing ones.
Last Autumn GlobalGAP opened an
office near Washington DC as certification
interest and activity builds in North America.
Harmonisation has been key to establish
standards that could be agreed amongst a
diverse group of retailers as well as produc-
ers. It would be a chaotic and unimaginable
situation now if each of these retailers had
their own standard and individual verification
audit.
Safety first
The core of the standard in each product
sector whether its combinable crops, feed
or aquaculture is ensuring food/feed safety.
These are after all non-negotiable ele-
ments such as chemical usage during primary
production or hygiene factors during harvest
and storage.
The GlobalGAP Integrated Farm
Assurance standard though takes a holistic
whole farm view auditing recommendations
for environmental protection as well as
worker welfare.
Overall it’s about good agricultural prac-
tices which farmers understand and practice
every day. Experience over the last 10 years
of implementation has shown that it helps
producers develop more efficient businesses
as well as complying with burgeoning legisla-
tive requirements.
Industry experts have produced the com-
pound feed manufacturing standard for use
by industry experts and can be used in con-
junction with the livestock and aquaculture
standards.
The 14 sections that provide the control
points and compliance criteria for commer-
cial compound feed producers are: Official
Approval; Workers Health, Safety and
Welfare, Quality Management System and
HACCP; Internal Audits; Feed Ingredients
Management; Storage Facilities on Site;
Processing; Finished Feed Transport and
Loading; Site Hygiene and Management;
Quality Control of Finished Feed; Ingredients
Declaration, Complaints, Documentation
and Traceability and Animal Protein
The standard is complemented by three
guidelines:
• List of materials - whose circulation of
use for animal nutrition purposes is
prohibited
• Haulage Exclusion List - materials for
which transport is prohibited at all times
and for those materials, whose transport
is prohibited unless proof of necessary
and appropriate cleaning is presented
prior to transport.
• Risk assessment for GlobalGAP
Compound Feed - developing the
company-specific risk assessment, the
Compound Feed Manufacturers are
required to consider this guideline.
GlobalGAP standards have been officially
translated into 22 languages and are available
free to download at www.globalgap.org
There is also GlobalGAP Risk Assessment
on Social Practices (GRASP), a voluntary
awareness raising and assessment module
covering child labour, limiting working time
for adults and making sure health and safety
measures are in place.
This responds to increasing consumer
and public interest in social working practices
and is intended to inform producers of these
increasingly important issues but does not
form part of the requirements for certification.

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Think global, act local
A large part of GlobalGAP’s success
results from its ability to adapt a single global
standard to differing agronomic conditions as
well local legislation. This adaptation reduces
costs to producers, increases the willingness
to adopt without compromising food safety
levels and integrity.
Certification is open to and achievable by
any producer worldwide.
Certified producers range from large
“In the future public
authorities will regard certified
producers lower risk and are
likely to receive fewer public
inspections as a result”
multinational agribusinesses to disadvantaged
small-scale farmers. GlobalGAP has devel-
oped guidelines for small-scale producers
to assist them in developing up to standards
where they can gain certification.
National farm assurance schemes, which
engage local stakeholders can also seek
recognition against GlobalGAP through an
equivalence or benchmarking process. China,
Chile and Mexico are a few examples that
have gone down this route, which helps
develop superior branding and identity for
producers entering into International mar-
kets.
This local adaption is implemented in
GlobalGAP by two related mechanisms: The
National Interpretation Guidelines (NIGL)
and the Approved Modified Checklist
(AMC).
In both mechanisms, local stakeholders
take the GlobalGAP standard checklist and
adapt the wording to local language and
farming practices as well as local and national
legislation.
This guideline for interpretation of the
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global checklist is then peer reviewed by
all GlobalGAP stakeholders and adopted
by the responsible technical committee as
equivalent to the generic global checklist.
The outcome of the recognition is a national
checklist that contains the agreed different
- but consistent - wording in the national
business language, and is made public and
mandatory for all certifiers to be used in the
territory of the defined scope.
The applicable certification rules which
are used in both cases are the
GlobalGAP General Regulations
which are also published on the
website.
The following reasons caused
GlobalGAP to follow these two
paths:
Farming is highly related to local
governments and public support
systems. Any support from the
public sector works much better
with local ownership of the stand-
ard, that is, a logo and national branding
Local legislation and practices vary greatly
across countries and regions and many
standard requirements are simply not appli-
cable in a number of local production sys-
tems. There is a huge benefit in reducing the
burden of irrelevant or inaccurate questions
in a simplified self-assessment and audit proc-
ess, in particular among the many small and
medium sized growers worldwide
The GlobalGAP integrity program serves
as additional independent check for the
continuous alignment of NIGLs
These mechanisms have lead to a signifi-
cantly higher involvement and wider support
for private voluntary standards in many
agricultural communities and governments.
Partnerships
Since the early days GlobalGAP has
transformed itself organisationally to reach
out to a wide range of private and public
stakeholders in its standard setting.
Last October saw the launch of the 4th
Version with stakeholder roundtables on
five continents and several public comment
periods as part of the consultation process.
Since 2001 Governance has been by an
industry elected Board with half the seats
being retailer representation and the other
half being producer representation.
Nigel Garbutt, Chairman of GlobalGAP
says, “This partnership has meant robust
decision making and decisions that can be
practically implemented through the supply
chain and in business relationships.”
Unlike Fairtrade or Organic GlobalGAP
is a business-to-business initiative and does
not carry a consumer logo. Retailers use the
standards in with their private label product
development as an important means to
mainstream food safety and sustainability
into their Brands.
Partnerships are a central part of
GlobalGAP’s way of working.
Buyers and sellers work with their sup-
pliers to continuously improve standards to
those required by today’s consumer. These
include those farmers and growers in the
most difficult and challenging circumstances.
Kenyan horticulture is a clear case where
small resource poor farmers have been con-
nected to global supply chains by developing
high value horticultural exports, which have
received certification.
This acts like a passport into International
markets.
The trade has expanded year on year
despite exacting standards or you could
SACK-FILLING SYSTEMS
say because of them and provides the small
farmer a way to get out of poverty and
obtain much need income for schooling and
DESIGN,
DEVELOPMENT
PALLETISING SYSTEMS
health provision. National governments are
also encouraging the development of private
voluntary standards to develop capacity and
basic infrastructure to deliver safe and sus-
AND MANUFACTURE
tainable food not just for export but home
markets as well.
CUSTOM-MADE PACKAGING SYSTEMS
The future of food control for low-fat dehydrated milk to wet sand
Garbutt says GlobalGAP will not become
like a BSI or other public standards because  in plastic or paper sacks
voluntary standards complement the regula-   from tubular film to pre-made sacks
tory system and are not a supplement for it.
He says that it is exciting that the public    with or without gussets
and private sectors are now finding synergies
between their responsibilities and work.
    from 1 to 50 kg
The private sector will quite often build up      by weight or volume
producer capacity and develop tools during
certification processes to meet both regula-
      from 100 to 2500 sacks per hour
tions and market requirements.        with any closure
“Public and private sectors each have
their own clear roles but together their
        palletised in any pattern
shared goal of safer food is more easily          with water-resistant stretchhood
reached. In the future public authorities will
regard certified producers lower risk and are
likely to receive fewer public inspections as
a result.”
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