Trade term
GRASP, the add-on that cannot stand alone
GRASP looks at social practice on a farm during the same visit as a GLOBALG.A.P. audit, covering worker representation, labour rights information and the protection of young workers. Its own rules forbid using it as a standalone tool, so a grower without the farm certificate underneath has no route to it at all.
The figures
| What is examined | Worker representation, labour rights information, protection of young workers |
|---|---|
| What it produces | A letter of conformance, valid for one year |
| What it never produces | A certificate |
| Who carries it out | The same certification body running the farm audit |
| What it requires underneath | A valid GLOBALG.A.P. certificate for the same site |
| Our position | Nothing assessed, and no certificate for it to attach to |
What it changes on an order
Your supplier approval form has a box for it
What arrives is a conformance letter tied to the farm certificate. A supplier who sends you no certificate for it is not withholding one.
You buy from a region that runs on seasonal labour
Harvest work is short, intense and frequently subcontracted, which is where employment paperwork thins out. That is the ground this add-on was written for.
Your own customer audits your supply chain
Naming the add-on costs nothing. Agreeing internally what you will do about a weak result is the harder half, and it is better done before you ask than after.
What this note does not settle
- An assessment covers a day spent with records at one site. It promises nothing about who will be picking there next week.
- We have no letter under this add-on and no route to one while the certificate it hangs from stays absent.
- Spanish employment law binds an employer whether anybody assesses them or not. This describes a private add-on sitting above that floor.
Source: GRASP General Regulations, GLOBALG.A.P., GRASP, GLOBALG.A.P.
Nothing to send, and that is the design
Purchasing teams built around collecting documents find this one exasperating. No certificate exists to attach, because the rules of the add-on forbid it from being used on its own; it rides on the farm certificate and renews through a yearly letter of conformance. What a supplier can give you is a pointer to a record, and that pointer is the whole answer.
Which means the form needs redrafting rather than chasing. Ask for the producer number behind the farm certificate and look at what hangs off it. A field that only a PDF can fill will keep returning false negatives against growers who are doing exactly the thing your policy cares about, and it will keep passing whoever is best at sending files.
A harvest workforce on paper, and ours
Citrus labour compresses into weeks. Crews move between farms, work is passed to contractors, and one picker can appear on three growers' fields inside a season. This add-on exists because that pattern is where documentation goes thin, and because a farm can be immaculate on food safety while its employment records are a drawer of photocopies.
For us the question closes fast. With no farm certificate there is no add-on, no letter and nothing hanging off any record, and nothing of the kind is under way. Where worker documentation is a genuine condition of approval, raise it at the first email. What we can discuss is what the grower's own records show, which is a smaller and more honest claim than the one your form is written for.
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.