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Certification with ACERTA for food products is a guarantee of quality for any food producer, distributor or logistics operator who wants to export their products or introduce them into high value-added markets.

In response to the increasing demands of consumers in relation to quality and food safety and animal welfare, and as an entity with high specialization in the food sector, we offer our customers one of the broadest global offerings of audit and certification services.

GLOBALG.A.P. IFA Fruits & Vegetables

The GLOBALG.A.P. IFA Frutas y Hortalizas protocol is a compendium of good agricultural practices, environmental management, HACCP and traceability. Its requirements are aimed at ensuring product safety, hygiene and the reduction of potential sources of contamination throughout the growing, harvesting and handling processes.

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GLOBALG.A.P. Chain of Custody

Transparency throughout the supply chain ensures product integrity and builds customer confidence. The GLOBALG.A.P. Chain of Custody (CoC) Standard is an essential complement for all producers and retailers handling GLOBALG.A.P. certified products. It ensures that any product that is marked as GLOBALG.A.P. product or sold as GLOBALG.A.P. certified product is sourced from GLOBALG.A.P. certified farms.

The GLOBALG.A.P. CoC Standard guarantees traceability, segregation and identification of products from GLOBALG.A.P. certified production processes throughout the entire process, from the farm to the retailer. It establishes strict requirements for the handling of certified products and the proper segregation of certified and non-certified products in the processing units.

The objective of this standard is to assure consumers and customers that any product sold as a result of GLOBALG.A.P. certified production processes originates from a GLOBALG.A.P. certified producer or group of producers.

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GRASP (GLOBALG.A.P. add-on)

GRASP is the abbreviation for "GLOBALGAP Risk Assessment on Social Practices".

The GRASP Module is a complement to the IFA standard for on-farm worker welfare assessment that helps producers demonstrate compliance with both international and national labor legislation. GRASP Assessments are not full social audits, but focus on examining the social management system implemented by the producer.

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Tesco Nurture (GLOBALG.A.P. add-on)

The Tesco NURTURE program has become the complementary NURTURE module of the GLOBALG.A.P. IFA.

Since January 2017, the Tesco NURTURE program has become an additional NURTURE Module to the existing GLOBALG.A.P. IFA audit processes. This reduced duplication of audits and increased flexibility for suppliers in choosing how they want their production sites to be assessed.

The NURTURE module focuses on plant protection product list (PPPL) management and the transition to GLOBALG.A.P. does not affect how suppliers manage their PPPLs.

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Spring (GLOBALG.A.P. add-on)

SPRING is a farm-level add-on that helps producers, retailers and traders demonstrate their commitment to sustainable water management, and can be applied in conjunction with the GLOBALG.A.P. IFA Crop Standard. SPRING incorporates a large number of criteria to assess whether sustainable water management is taking place on the farm. Some of these criteria are as follows:

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GGFSA (GLOBALG.A.P. add-on)

The Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform is a global food and beverage value chain initiative that advocates sustainable agriculture. The overall objective of the SAI Platform is to support the development of sustainable agriculture worldwide. To achieve this goal, the initiative has developed an Agricultural Sustainability Assessment (FSA) tool.

GLOBALG.A.P. and the SAI Platform have partnered to offer an innovative approach that benefits from the expertise and extensive experience of the two organizations, developing a joint solution: the GLOBALG.A.P. Farming Sustainability Assessment (GGFSA).

It is based on the GLOBALG.A.P. crop standards and combines all FSA sustainability requirements into a compact and assessable standard. In this way, GLOBALG.A.P. certified producers will be able to demonstrate compliance with FSA requirements without duplication.

This joint solution enables traders, retailers and manufacturers to obtain safe and sustainable products in a transparent and more efficient way.

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FSMA (GLOBALG.A.P. add-on)

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) enacted by the FDA requires that specific practices be implemented and followed for the production, handling and importation of food products into the United States.

In order to assist fruit and vegetable growers in the implementation of these practices, GLOBALG.A.P. has created the FSMA PSR add-on, which contains the FSMA Produce Safety Rule checkpoints applicable to this type of produce.

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AH-DLL GROW (GLOBALG.A.P. add-on)

The AH-DLL GROW add-on, which was developed in collaboration with Albert Heijn and Delhaize, was launched in August 2020 in order to assess producers' risk management with respect to hygiene, pesticide residues and foreign bodies.

The AH-DLL GROW add-on is an assessment that is performed in conjunction with the inspection or audit under the GLOBALG.A.P Integrated Farm Assurance standard for plants. It is required for both individual growers and grower groups supplying fruit and vegetable crops either directly or through their suppliers to Albert Heijn in the Netherlands (AH) or Delhaize in Belgium (DLL).

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COSTCO Produce

AUDIT PURPOSE:

The purpose of a COSTCO audit is to gather all current and accurate information regarding the overall Food Safety status of existing and potential vendors and suppliers. This information will be shared ONLY with the appropriate members of COSTCO Wholesale, called the Food Safety & Technology Group and Purchasing Staff.

The Costco Audit Group will use this audit to determine what areas, if any, need improvement to meet COSTCO's Food Safety or Animal Welfare criteria. Purchasing staff will use this information as an aid in making safe and intelligent purchases for COSTCO members. The outcome of this audit will in no way be used as a punitive measure; rather, this audit provides both the vendor/supplier and COSTCO Wholesale the opportunity for continuous enrichment and improvement.

Leaf Marque

LEAF Marque is a private British standard that aims to provide consumers with confidence in the care that products have taken to produce food in a sustainable manner.

The principles of Integrated Farm Management underpin the requirements of LEAF Marque certification, as set out in the LEAF Marque Standard. Integrated Farm Management is a whole farm business approach that provides a more sustainable agriculture, including organization and planning, soil management and fertility, crop health and protection, pollution control and by-product management, animal husbandry, energy efficiency, water management, landscape and nature conservation, and community involvement.

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Integrated production (flexible scope of accreditation)

Integrated production is based on agricultural systems for obtaining vegetables that use and ensure long-term sustainable agriculture, introducing biological and chemical control methods, as well as other techniques that make compatible the demands of society, environmental protection and agricultural productivity, and the operations carried out for the handling, packaging, processing and labeling of vegetable products.

ACERTA offers Integrated Production certification under flexible ENAC accreditation, for all types of unprocessed vegetable products and in several autonomous communities.

See our List of Products and Regulatory Documents (LPDN) in the accreditations section.

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