Agriculture
Everyone seems to agree that ?my food is safer than yours? is not a sustainable strategy for individual producers who may be able to back up their competitive food safety claims with scientific data, as it implies that the other food is not safe which damages the industry as a whole. Everyone also seems to agree that there is a need to measure and validate food safety practices throughout industry to create effective incentives for low performers to catch up and not threaten the rest of industry with risky methods.
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Agriculture
The Competitive Edge of Farm Certification
Recently, I participated in the Operations Committee meeting for the Harmonized GAPs standard. As part of the Harmonized G.A.Ps Initiative, the produce industry is identifying the best audit process to efficiently implement and deliver a ready-to-use harmonized checklist. During the meeting, there was discussion of food safety as being non-competitive. Does this also mean that the food safety certification process is non-competitive? Put another way: does non-competitive food safety just preclude using food safety claims as part of marketing, or does it also preclude competition in the audit process used to assess on-farm practices for food safety?
Everyone seems to agree that ?my food is safer than yours? is not a sustainable strategy for individual producers who may be able to back up their competitive food safety claims with scientific data, as it implies that the other food is not safe which damages the industry as a whole. Everyone also seems to agree that there is a need to measure and validate food safety practices throughout industry to create effective incentives for low performers to catch up and not threaten the rest of industry with risky methods. Now, the discussion isn?t about food safety claims, but rather how best to measure food safety performance and ensure the integrity of the audit process for food safety. Over the last decade, ISO-accredited certification has been proven around the world as capable of delivering a rigorous independent assessment rigorousness of food safety management systems. (Food safety can?t be ?tested? into a system, it is inherent in the management system itself; Food safety certification assesses this management system.) The competition of service providers for an audit process with a high-level of integrity can improve the audit process, stimulate innovation, and reduce cost. This effectively creates a competitive market for delivery systems for audit processes at an acceptable level. How this market is to be defined ? who should play in the market; who should offer the services; who should supervise the market; what the levels of transparency, liability, and accountability are; and how this ultimately builds consumer and public sector trust ? is the complex task of the Operations Committee.
This task will be completed successfully when the competitive edge of certification is leveraged for increased efficiency in the market for delivery systems and NOT attributed to claims like ?my certification integrity is higher than yours?; Claims like this will ultimately damage the reputation of third party certification as a whole.
Source: http://nablog.globalgap.org
Source: http://nablog.globalgap.org
- Ida May Give $160 Million For Rehabilitation Of Barrages In Sindh
International Development Association (IDA) can possible provide to produce $160 million for Sindh Barrages Improvement Phase-I Project to safeguard the reliable supply of water to regarding a million hectares through the rehabilitation of the Guddu barrage...
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In general, seed certification and maintain high-quality seeds available to the public and inform the media content types and designs of crop varieties and sustainable supply is so large and the physical characteristics and distribution in order to ensure...
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On agriculture, enterprise development and diversification projects, particularly the report of the audit, said billions of rupees project, the project, Rs36.36 billion fund the shortfall in budgetary control of the various departments in the exercise...
- What Is Agriculture?
Agriculture and food science is a field of study which focuses on improving the productivity, quality, and safety of agricultural practices and practices related to bringing food from farm to table. Many colleges and universities offer training in this...
- Snake River Produce Company
Today we hear from Tiffany Cruickshank of Snake River Produce Company. She is a fourth generation agriculturalist! Snake River Produce Company, LLC is located in Nyssa, Oregon in the heart of the Idaho-Eastern Oregon onion region. Snake River Produce...