• Good practices related to storage and transport.
• Training plan.
• Quality Control Plan.
• Cleaning and disinfection plan for equipment, facilities and transportation.
• Pest control plan.
• Supplier control plan.
• Maintenance plan for equipment and facilities.
• Waste identification and elimination plan.
• Water control plan.
• Traceability plan and product withdrawal.
• Cross contamination control plan.
• Homogeneity control plan.
• Good manufacturing/handling practices.

• Access control plan.
• Sanitary control plan.
• Veterinary treatment control plan.
• Facilities and access control plan.
• Animal welfare plan.
• Water and food control plan.

Study and diagnosis of the chemical, microbiological and physical hazards present.

in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of July 13, 2009 on the marketing and use of feed.

if you have one feed company, are producer of raw materials or additives for animal feed, you are buying and selling agent, or you belong to a complementary sector and you want to export or agree to sell to certain clients, who require having their entire food chain certified, GMP+ may be of interest to you.

The GMP+ FSA (Feed Safety Assurance) modules are a compendium of documents with the standards to ensure the safety of feed in all links of the food chain.

Type A documents bring together all the general requirements to be able to participate in the GMP+ scheme regardless of the sector.

The scope of GMP+ allows certification for:

GMP + B1, Production, trade and services.

GMP + B2, Production of food ingredients.

GMP+ B3, Trade, collection, storage and transshipment.

GMP + B4, Transport.

Type B documents are the standards from which the requirements to be met are reflected according to the sector to which the company belongs. Four main standards are distinguished along with their corresponding appendices to which they can be referenced.

The type C documents are requirements for certification in the GMP+ scheme and the type D documents are guides to help the implementation and facilitate the interpretation of the GMP+ requirements.

If you belong to animal production or transport sector, you are a feed processor, you belong to the meat sector or you are part of the plant production sector and you are interested in the German market or in exporting your products outside the EU, the QS system can be your seal of quality.

The QS system is a German standard that covers the entire food chain: from the field to the store, both in animal production and in plant production. In order for a product to carry the QS seal, it must be produced under the QS certification in each and every one of the stages through which the product passes throughout the food chain.

It has monitoring programs such as: Salmonella, antibiotics, slaughterhouse findings and residues in both feed and fruit and vegetables, which give added value to the products that are under the seal of the QS certificate.

FAMI QS is a system to ensure feed safety in all links of the food chain , from production to marketing.

The FAMI QS Code covers the requirements on Good Manufacturing Practices, on the HACCP program and suggestions on continuous improvements in design, operations and risk management with the aim of maintaining food safety and quality.

The documentary structure is made up of the FAMI-QS Code that covers the requirements for the production/commercialization of special ingredients for feed that are obtained through the following production processes: chemical, bioprocessing, mining, extraction, mixing and formulation.

With the FAMI-QS Code, a set of process documents are provided as supplements to the FAMI-QS Code. These are auditable documents, established in accordance with the principles of the Codex Alimentarius (including the HACCP program), for each process described in the Scope.

If you require a standard recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) and you belong to the plant production, animal production or aquaculture sector, the GlobalG.AP seal will allow you to directly market your products to the US and many other countries with a high level of food safety requirements and allows you to demonstrate food safety and sustainability on the farm.

The GLOBALG.AP Standard is structured in a system of modules that allow producers to be certified for several sub-domains in a single audit. It consists of the following documents:

1. General Regulations: The criteria to achieve the implementation of the PCCCs are defined and the criteria for the regulation of the standard are established.
2. Control Points and Compliance Criteria (PCCC): Clearly define the requirements to achieve the quality standard required by GLOBALG.AP
3. The Base Module for All Types of Agricultural Exploitation: They constitute the basis for all standards and contain all general requirements.
4. The Scope Module: Defines the different sectors of application and defines specific requirements depending on whether it is a plant producer (Crops), animal production (Animals) and Aquaculture
5. The Sub-Scope Module: Covers specific requirements for a specific product or service present in the food chain.

To obtain certification, producers must comply with all relevant SCCPs for their sub-scope. For example, a seasonal fruit producer must comply with the SCCPs of the Base Module for All Types of Farming, the SCCPs of the Crops Module and the SCCPs of the Sub-Scope Module (in this case, fruits and vegetables).

It is a certification based on the HACCP system, specifically it applies to the control of compliance with the Food Safety requirements established in the Codex Alimentarius document CAC/RCP1-1969, rev.4 2003 Recommended International Code of Practice – General Principles of Food Hygiene.

The certification is aimed at all organizations that have implemented a HACCP System for the control of hazards related to Food Safety. It is applicable to all companies that intervene directly or indirectly in the food chain.

If you require a standard based on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the following may be of interest to you:

Management systems (quality, environment, food safety, occupational health and safety, etc.) constitute a fundamental support for ensuring that the activities that take place in a company are planned, managed and controlled in such a way as to guarantee the fulfillment of its objectives.

Applicable to all companies, regardless of their size, type and nature.

Its high-level structure makes it easy to integrate with more than one standard.

This ISO standard focuses on the customer and meeting their requirements. This translates into the need to demonstrate that you have the ability to:

• Provide products that meet customer requirements. These requirements or specifications of the product or service provided may be reflected, for example, in the form of orders, offers and/or contracts with customers.
• Comply with the applicable legal and regulatory requirements, especially focused on those regulations related to the criteria of conformity of the product and/or service together with the activity of the organization.
• Achieve their own product and/or service quality goals.

This ISO standard focuses on environmental performance. This translates into the need to demonstrate that you have the ability to:

• Improve the environmental performance of the organization. The organization must demonstrate the ability to control and improve its environmental aspects, such as: consumption of natural resources, generation of solid waste, discharges, emissions and noise pollution, among others, and all from a life cycle point of view.
• Comply with the applicable legal and regulatory requirements, especially focused on those regulations related to environmental management (emissions, soil, discharges, solid waste management, etc.)
• Achieve your own environmental goals.

This ISO standard focuses on occupational health and safety. This translates into the need to demonstrate that you have the ability to:

• Identify risks related to safety and the work environment and implement protocols to prevent injuries and illnesses caused by working conditions, in addition to the protection and promotion of employee health.

• Comply with the applicable legal and regulatory requirements, especially focused on those regulations related to safety and health at work (signage, work environment, handling of loads, exposure to biological or carcinogenic agents, use of PPE, etc.)
• Achieve their own objectives related to safety and health at work.

This ISO standard focuses on information security. This translates into the need to demonstrate that you have the ability to:

• Identify the threats and vulnerabilities and implement the necessary measures to eliminate or minimize the risks due to loss of confidentiality, availability and integrity of the information.
• Comply with the applicable legal and regulatory requirements, especially focused on regulations related to information security (protection of personal data, intellectual property, electronic commerce, etc.)
• Achieve your own objectives related to information security.

The ISO 27001 standard is structured as follows:

• A set of requirements of a management system based on document control, staff skills, organizational structure and tools for continuous improvement in information security.
• An analysis of risks to information security from the point of view of the loss of confidentiality, availability and integrity of information. The standard does not require the establishment of a specific analysis methodology and leaves free choice to companies so that they can choose the one that best suits their needs.
• Treat the identified risks with a set of information security control measures listed in Annex I.

As additional information and in order to facilitate the interpretation of the control measures present in Annex I of the ISO 27001 standard, the ISO/IEC 27002 standard has been developed as a set of practices for information security controls. The ISO 27001 standard does not require the implementation of all the control measures present in its Annex I, but it does require justifying its non-implementation, through a statement of applicability.