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Digital Re-print - March | April 2011 Global Certification of Food and Feed Safety: GlobalGAP International Farm Assurance

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Established 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 globalGlobalGAP 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 firstThe 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.

by Nigel Garbutt, Chairman, GlOBalG.a.P

Global Certification of Food and Feed Safety:

GlobalGaP International Farm assurance

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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 say because of them and provides the small farmer a way to get out of poverty and obtain much need income for schooling and health provision. National governments are also encouraging the development of private voluntary standards to develop capacity and basic infrastructure to deliver safe and sus-tainable food not just for export but home markets as well.

The future of food controlGarbutt says GlobalGAP will not become

like a BSI or other public standards because voluntary standards complement the regula-tory system and are not a supplement for it.

He says that it is exciting that the public and private sectors are now finding synergies between their responsibilities and work. The private sector will quite often build up producer capacity and develop tools during certification processes to meet both regula-tions and market requirements.

“Public and private sectors each have their own clear roles but together their shared goal of safer food is more easily reached. In the future public authorities will regard certified producers lower risk and are likely to receive fewer public inspections as a result.”

Consumer trust and confidence will be more easily kept he maintains with a future of the public and private sector working together.

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 brandingLocal 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.

PartnershipsSince 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

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

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

“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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Mitchells is pleased to announce t he appointment of Tony

Uyttendaele to the newly created position of technical manager.

Mr Uyttendaele has joined Mitchells after a long career with DeSmet Bellestra , a world leader in the engineering and construction of oilseed extraction and refining plants. Tony has close to 10 years’ experience in China, responsible for the pre-opening and opening of DeSmet’s export standard plant , in Wuxi, China. He went on to project manage wide-ranging oilseed modification, refinery and extraction projects from 2004–2011. Belgian born, Mr Uyttendaele has more than 30 years’ experience as an industrial eng ineer, construc t ion , during which he has built

strong technical, large project management and workshop and fabrication experience. He has worked in at least 10 countries, including in Europe, the Middle East, Korea, Africa and Australia.In welcoming his appointment, Mitchells’ chief executive Mic Mittasch said, ‘I am very pleased to welcome Tony to the Mitchells’ team and look forward to the opportunity to again work alongside him, but this time as a colleague.

‘Tony is a highly capable i n d i v i d u a l w ho h a s a n impeccable track record in the technical issues related to projects. He will work with me and other senior managers, oversee ing ever y aspec t of our projects, and with engineering on the continuous improvement of the equipment and services Mitchells offers its customers. His European background will be especially important as we develop this market.’

More inforMation:Emily ZengMarketing & Sales Account ManagerMitchells Equipment (Hebei) Co LtdWorkshop No.10 Hualong Industrial Park, Shuichang East St, Yanjiao ETDZ, Sanhe, Hebei, PR China 065201

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