Trade term
GLOBALG.A.P., and how to check a certificate
GLOBALG.A.P. Integrated Farm Assurance certifies a production site and the crops grown on it, audited by a certification body the scheme approves. Alone among the schemes described here it walks into the field itself, and the certificate it issues can be checked by anyone in a public portal without a login, which makes a forwarded document the weakest form of proof available.
The figures
| What carries the certificate | The production site and the named crops grown on it |
|---|---|
| Who audits | A certification body approved by the scheme and accredited to ISO/IEC 17065 |
| Identifier on every registration | A thirteen digit producer number |
| How a buyer verifies it | In the scheme's public supply chain portal, with no login required |
| Where the mark may appear | Between businesses only, never on a consumer pack |
| Our position | No certificate, and nothing to find in the portal |
What it changes on an order
A supplier emails you a certificate as an attachment
Look it up rather than file it. Status, scope and crops sit in the portal record, and a document travels by email in ways a portal entry cannot.
Your specification names the scheme and stops there
Certificates cover named crops at named sites. A grower certified for one crop holds nothing that reaches the fruit you are about to order.
You are designing a consumer pack around the claim
The certification mark is barred from consumer packaging. What faces a shopper is a separate label with its own licence and its own chain of custody conditions.
What this note does not settle
- We hold nothing under this scheme, so a search on our name returns no record. That is the accurate result rather than a gap in the portal.
- Explaining a scheme is not applying for one. No audit has been booked here and no application is open.
- Checklists and scheme versions move on their own timetable. Read the edition in force rather than a summary written in another season.
Source: GLOBALG.A.P. Supply Chain Portal, GLOBALG.A.P. Integrated Farm Assurance for Fruit and Vegetables
A portal entry outranks an attachment
Certificates get suspended, scopes get narrowed and crops get removed from a registration, and not one of those events reaches the copy sitting in your inbox. The live record lives in the portal, it opens without a login, and checking it costs less time than reading the document somebody sent you. Buyers who fold that check into onboarding stop having the argument about whether a scan is current, because the argument has nowhere left to happen.
Three things are worth matching while you are there. The producer number should belong to the company invoicing you rather than to a parent, a cooperative or a packer. The crop on the record should be the crop on your order. The site should sit in the country you believe it sits in. Disputes about certification turn out to be disputes about scope far more often than they turn out to be forgeries.
What the field audit reaches, and where we stand
Among the schemes a citrus buyer runs into, this is the one whose auditor walks the orchard. Plant protection records, irrigation water, worker safety among the trees: all of it falls inside. The rest of the schemes begin where fruit leaves the farm and end at a loading bay. Holding that split in mind explains why a grower and a packer answer completely different questions from the same approval form.
Our own line in the system is short. Search the portal for us and nothing comes back, because we have never registered, never been audited and hold no number. Where a purchasing policy requires the scheme, that requirement is unmet, and no application is open to change it. Finding this out while reading costs a buyer a few minutes. Finding it out midway through onboarding costs both of us a fortnight.
Talk to the grower
Tell us the variety, the sizes and the delivery week you need. You get a delivered price and what we can commit to in writing, from the person who picks the fruit.
The grower handles enquiries. Response times are still to be confirmed.