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TRACEABILITY AND ASSURANCE

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Key – Those standards which have greater significance (all other standards are normal)

Recommendation – Those which do not affect certification

New – A completely new standard which the member must now adhere to

Revised – A standard that has changed and requires the member to take some different or additional action to before

Upgraded – The standard has been upgraded to a Key standard or from a Recommendation to a full standard

Appendix – Referenced in ‘How you will be measured’. Indicates that additional information is provided in the Appendices, which are available at the end of each section.

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Where to find help – at the end of each section we have indicated where you can get extra guidance if you need it.

Cropping Categories Fresh Produce

Category 0
Those you can eat raw and have a significant risk or history of pathogen contamination.

Category 1
Those you can eat raw and which do not have a protective skin that is removed before eating; they may also have a significant risk or history of pathogen contamination.

Category 2
Those you can eat raw and which either have protective skin or grow clear of the ground, or that have no history of pathogen contamination.

Category 3
Those that the customer always cooks.

An up-to-date list of the crop categories can be found on the Red Tractor website.

Aim:

TRACEABILITY AND ASSURANCE

PR.TI.1 Key

Standards

Systems must be in place that deliver traceability of product throughout the operation.

How you will be measured

PR.TI.1.a

Product identification/coding throughout the operation.

PR.TI.1.b

Identification/coding provides traceability back to growing location (e.g. glasshouse, polytunnel, etc.) and date of harvest and can be related to any other relevant process steps (e.g. long-term storage details).

PR.TI.1.c

Identification/coding allows for dispatched batches of product to be unambiguously linked to crop production records.

Traceability records

PR.TI.2

Standards

Records of bought-in seeds or plants must be kept.

How you will be measured

PR.TI.2.a

Records detail: - suppliers - variety names - purity - germination rates - batch numbers - quality control systems

PR.TI.2.b

Pest and disease monitoring is recorded for seeds, nursery stock and young plants.

PR.TI.2.c

Category 0 only. Microbiological testing of seed is completed.
  • Seed/ plant traceability records
  • Quality control information
  • Pest and disease monitoring records
  • Microbiological testing certificates

PR.TI.3

Standards

Systems must be tested annually to ensure the traceability system is effective.

How you will be measured

PR.TI.3.a

Records of a product recall test include details of the product looked at, include all the paperwork for that production from seed to farm-gate/dispatch and demonstrate that the traceability system is effective.

PR.TI.3.b

Where the product recall test shows that improvements to the system are required there is evidence that the improvements have been implemented.

PR.TI.3.c

Quantities whether produced, stored or purchased for assured (and where applicable) non-assured products are recorded. These volumes are then balanced against out-going quantities and waste to produce a final or ‘mass balance’.
  • Product recall test records
  • Mass balance calculations
  • TI.2 – Microbiological test results may be provided by the seed supplier or the farm/business can organise its own testing through an accredited laboratory
  • TI.3 – Farms shall ensure that a product recall test and mass balance calculation are completed in advance of a Red Tractor assessment. The assessment itself does not represent the annual test required by the standard.