Good Agricultural Practices
The GLOBALG.A.P standard is primarily designed to reassure consumers about how food is produced on the farm by minimising harmful environmental impacts of farming operations, reducing the use of chemical inputs and ensuring a responsible approach to worker health and safety as well as animal welfare. GLOBALG.A.P serves as a practical manual for Good Agricultural Practice (G.A.P.) anywhere in the world. The basis is an equal partnership of agricultural producers and retailers who wish to establish efficient certification standards and procedures.
How you benefit
Control Union Certifications is an independent, international inspection and certification body, which is also officially approved by GLOBALG.A.P. Our presence in more than 70 countries around the globe with qualified and trained professionals makes Control Union stand out from the other certification bodies. Moreover, Control union is equipped with an accredited, independent laboratory to serve the needs of analysis. All the certification activities are accredited as per EN 45011 (ISO / IEC Guide 65).
What the standard looks like
The standard ‘GLOBALG.A.P. Integrated Farm Assurance (IFA)’ is based on the principles of risk prevention, risk analysis (based on principles of HACCP), sustainable agriculture by means of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Integrated Crop Management (ICM).
These use existing technologies for the continuous improvement of farming systems, enabling certification of a wide range of products as listed below:
• Agricultural production: Fruit & Vegetables – Flowers & Ornamentals – Combinable Crops – Plant Propagation Material– Tea
• Animal production: Cattle & sheep – Calf/Young Beef– Dairy – Pigs – Poultry –. Turkey
• Aquacultural production: Finfish – Crustaceans - Molluscs
The following additional standards are also set under GLOBALG.A.P.:
• Chain of Custody: Crops, Livestock and Aquaculture products
• Compound Feed Manufacturing: Compound Feed Manufacturing for Livestock and Aquaculture
• GRASP: GLOBALG.A.P. Risk Assessment on Social Practice
• Livestock Transport
• NURTURE Module
• Friends of the Sea etc?
How to get certified
To start the certification process get in touch with us by clicking the contact button on this page. Based on the information you provide in application form(s), we will send you a non-obligatory offer. Once you have accepted the offer, we can start the requested service. At that time, Control Union Certification is approved to offer you all the modules mentioned above.
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