Freshcare

Freshcare

Comply to an industry and customer recognized food safety program

Comply to an industry and customer recognized food safety program
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Freshcare

Freshcare is an industry owned non-for-profit on-farm assurance program used to provide benefits to both suppliers and clients. Freshcare is currently the largest Australian assurance program for fresh produce. BSI provides auditing to a range of Freshcare Program (Standards) such as:

1. Food Safety & Quality (JAS-ANZ accredited)

Practices that must be implemented and maintained to assure continuous food safety and quality requirements are being met on-farm by growers and grower packers. This is an approved base scheme under HARPS.

Mandatory changes for participating businesses:

  • The Freshcare Food Safety & Quality Standard – Edition 4.2 (FSQ 4.2) was released to participating businesses and industry today on 9 November 2020
  • The update and release of the FSQ 4.2 Standard is required for Freshcare to maintain recognition to the Global Food Safety Initiative, GFSI v2020 benchmark requirements
  • All audits conducted from Monday 3 May 2021 will be to FSQ 4.2 allowing a 6 month transition period for businesses to update their systems to meet the revised requirements
  • To support the release of the FSQ4.2 Standard, resources including a Transition Guide, Factsheets and Forms, along with Q&A’s about the program update can be accessed here: www.freshcare.com.au/standards/fsq4-2

For more information visit this link: freshcare.com.au/gfsi

2. Food Safety & Quality – Supply Chain (JAS-ANZ accredited)

The newest Freshcare standard was released in mid-2018 which prescribes the compliance criteria for businesses operating throughout the fresh produce supply chain, including those dealing with packing and handling, storage and ripening, transport and distribution, and wholesale and brokerage. This is also an approved base scheme under HARPS.

3. Environmental

Offers growers a comprehensive, easy to follow and outcomes based environmental assurance program, specifically designed to aid in achieving and demonstrating real environmental outcomes on-farm.

Certification to the Freshcare Food Safety Program (Standard), involves an independent (3rd party) verification by an approved certification body such as BSI. This verification process recognizes that the Program (Standard) is compliant to the Freshcare requirements.

 

Benefits of the Freshcare Food Safety Program (Standard):

Freshcare provides Growers, Packers and businesses operating throughout the supply chain with an industry and customer recognized program (standard) that is credible, easy to manage, cost-effective, and suitable for all fresh produce lines.

Why BSI?

BSI believes the world should be supplied with food that has been produced to an industry recognised food safety standard. We offer a broad range of food safety certification and risk management services to help all organizations in the food supply chain achieve compliance and industry best practice to grow their business.

We’re a leading food safety and certification provider with extensive auditing capacity and the capability to conduct integrated audits for a wide range of food safety standards across the entire food and beverage supply chain – including GFSI-recognized standards.

Our service solution for food safety includes certification, training, assessment and supply chain software, providing you and your customer’s assurance and enabling you to manage risk more effectively.