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:

  • On 1 July 2019, the updated standard FSQ4.1 was released.

  • With the release of FSQ4.1, Freshcare resources (Factsheets and Forms) with amendments, a Transition Guide that details changes between the versions of the Standard, an explanation of the change and the steps a business needs to take to update their system is also available to assist businesses in implementing the required changes freshcare.com.au/standards/fsq4-1

  • From 1 January 2020, all audits will be conducted against FSQ4.1The FSQ4.1 standard will ensure Freshcare certification is compliant with the benchmarks set by Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).

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 can offer accredited audits for all of the HARPS base schemes and we are one of three certification bodies accepted by all HARPS participating retailers.

BSI believes the world should be supplied safe, high-quality food. We offer a broad range of food safety certification and risk management services.

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 customers assurance and enabling you to manage risk more effectively.