Everyone, no matter where in the world, should have access to safe food. Therefore, every company in the animal feed chain should be committed to safe feed. Thanks to the consistent focus on uniform standards within the entire production chain, GMP+ International brings global feed safety one step closer every single day.
The GMP+ Feed Certification scheme was initiated and developed in 1992 by the Dutch feed industry in response to various more or less serious incidents involving contamination in feed materials. Today, over 18.000 companies in more than eighty countries are GMP+ certified.
And in February, 18th, 2019, Prograin Organic L.L.C. broke the ice and become the first company from the Republic of Moldova that is certified according to the GMP+B3 Standard, for trade, storage and transshipment of grains, oilseeds and legumes as: maize, sunflower seed, wheat, soya beans, raw, peas, rye, spelt, oats, barley, sorghum, feed beans.
GMP+ Feed Safety Assurance is a unique and complete module with standards for the assurance of feed safety in all the links of the feed chain. Demonstrable assurance of feed safety is a ‘license to sell’ in many countries and markets and participation in the GMP+ FSA module can facilitate this excellently. Based on needs in practice, multiple components have been integrated into the GMP+ FSA standards, such as requirements for a feed safety management system, for application of HACCP principles, for traceability, monitoring, prerequisites programmes, chain approach and the Early Warning System.
Our developed documentation contains clear provisions of the standards and requirements to guarantee safe feed (FSA) and responsible work methods (FRA) throughout the chain. In this, it doesn’t just concern production facilities, but also storage, transport, personnel and procedures. This chain approach makes the GMP+ certification scheme unique in its kind. Because of the integration of ISO standards, HACCP and other elements, the GMP+ Feed Certification scheme has – over the past decades – been able to develop into a full-fledged and widely respected certification scheme that guarantees safety, reliability, quality and sustainability.
