GlobalG.A.P. certification
Certification for agricultural producers who want to offer consumers quality products
GlobalG.A.P. certification (Good Agricultural Practices) was created to guarantee a competitive advantage in the market of primary agricultural production. More and more often, in fact, companies in this sector are required to demonstrate safe and sustainable processing practices for quality production, which has become fundamental both for consumers and for European and international large-scale distribution.
The GlobalG.A.P. standard in fact allows to define in a transparent way the health and safety characteristics of primary productions, to reduce production costs in the long term and respond to the growing needs of food safety and environmental protection.
Regulatory Focus
The GlobalG.A.P. standard was drawn up in 1997 by Eurep (Euro Retailer Produce Working Group) as an initiative of some of the main European distribution chains, and represents a real Guideline for good agricultural practices, leading to the creation of an integrated management system between the rules for the production and marketing of fresh (unprocessed) agricultural productions.
The affirmation of the GlobalG.A.P. standard IFA has determined the need, as early as 2014, to develop a specific certification standard for all players in the supply chain and not only for producers.
In fact, the GlobalG.A.P. Chain of Custody establishes strict requirements for the management of certified products and segregation between certified and non-certified products, during the subsequent processing phases of fresh unprocessed products covered by certification. Through this, the standard GlobalG.A.P. has pushed the boundaries of certification that previously only interested primary producers.
Benefits of certification
Obtaining GlobalG.A.P. certification has a number of advantages:
- Ability to respond to customer requests for the adoption of an internationally recognized production standard
- Easier access to market
- Effective management of production processes, with optimization of direct and indirect business costs
- Meeting mandatory regulatory requirements for the industry
