A New, Comprehensive World Order for Safe & Sustainable Agriculture
Food Safety: A Worldwide Concern Food safety is one of the leading issues of the 21st Century. Growers and retailers alike are determined to provide consumers with produce grown in optimal conditions. While EurepGAP has become the global reference standard for safe and sustainable agriculture, some leading retailers have introduced their own specifications, making it difficult for farmers to keep up with the latest developments.
Carmel Growers: Sustained by One All-Encompassing Standard Carmel has close to 2000 growers, nurturing products in 600 different categories. The fruits of their labor are sold to 350 buyers worldwide. This broad range prompted Agrexco to create Ecofresh: a flexible, all-encompassing framework enabling each grower to incorporate the demands of all relevant specifications into one system.
Ecofresh: An Interrelated Farming & Packing System for the Global Trade Ecofresh is a new world order for farming and packing, enabling growers to meet all international standards through one umbrella program. With Ecofresh, Agrexco integrates the best agricultural know-how with a host of international certification requirements into one integrated audit. A modular system, it enables growers to incorporate the demands of any set of integrated schemes at any one time. Simultaneously, Ecofresh sets its own standards for seven main issues:
Food safety
Worker safety
Waste and pollution control
Employee health & welfare
Nature/landscape preservation & enhancement
Agri-technological know-how
Strict Quality Control
The Ecofresh Path to Healthy, Pure Produce A comprehensive system, Ecofresh provides clear-cut instructions for farmers and packinghouses. Its list of tools consists of:
Specific "Growing Protocols" for each crop
A complete set of documentation forms
Packinghouse protocol and working instructions
Multi-lingual educational and training materials for workers
Guidance on how to arrange PMOs in order to facilitate certification
