GLOBALG.A.P

GLOBALG.A.P. is a brand of farm assurance standards based on Good Agricultural Practice, owned by FoodPLUS GmbH. First created in the late 1990s by several European supermarket chains and their suppliers under the name EUREPGAP, standards were developed using the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) guidelines published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and is governed according to the ISO/IEC 17065 for product certification schemes.

GLOBALG.A.P. standards are voluntary and developed in collaboration with sector stakeholders – including producers, certification bodies, and retailers – and cover production processes in agriculture, floriculture, aquaculture, animal feed manufacturing, and chain of custody.

The certification system is based on audits by accredited and independent third party certification bodies. Each registered producer is assigned a unique 13-digit GLOBALG.A.P. Number (GGN), which can be searched in the public GLOBALG.A.P. database.

In February 2009 GLOBALG.A.P. launched 'ChinaGAP' following successful completion of the benchmarking of ChinaGAP against the GLOBALG.A.P. Good Agricultural Practice reference code.

In 2023, there were more than 190,000 producers under GLOBALG.A.P. certification across 137 countries. Certified production processes for plants account for more than 4.5 million hectares annually. Aquaculture products from certified production account for over 2.6 million tons in the market each year. Provided by Wikipedia