GAPs (Good Agricultural Practices) and GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices) are a set of principles, regulations and technical recommendations applicable to production, processing and food transport, addressing human health care, environment protection and improvement of worker conditions and their families.
Good Agricultural Practices is based on the principals of risk prevention, risk analysis, sustainable agriculture by means of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Integrated Crop Management (ICM), using existing technologies for the continuous improvement of farming systems.
The Good Agricultural Practices is the utmost important for protection of consumer health. It requires ensuring safety throughout the food chain and it must be compulsory transparent not only from the table but also upstream (e.g. fertilizers, plant protection, animal feed). Good Agricultural Practices offers benefits to farmers and consumers to meet specific objectives of food security, food quality, production efficiency, livelihood and environmental protection.
Good Agricultural Practices includes farm codes of conduct, manuals, guidelines, standards, and regulations that have been developed by growers associations, food processors, retailers, governments, and NGOs. The aim of these codes of conduct is to assure that the food produced is at the quality level demanded by consumers and safe for human consumption. The guidelines are based on science, and should conform to local and national standards.
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