Providing third-party environmental and sustainability certification, auditing, testing, and standards development.

SCS Global Services is an IHA Accredited HACCP Training center, offering on-site courses, webinars and customized trainings throughout the year in North America and Central America. Our expert trainers can tailor the training curricula to meet your needs.

• Ask about our comprehensive HACCP, sustainability, and pesticide residue management training for in-house practitioners, managers and consultants.
• Find out about our food safety webinars.

Eligibility

GAP audits are relevant to any grower or producer of vegetables, fruits, or agricultural feedstocks. We audit greenhouse growers as well as open-field.

Pre-Assessment

SCS can walk you through a pre-assessment process. Pre-assessment is a non-scored mock audit designed to assess the level of your preparedness for a certification audit. Ask about combining a pre-assessment with your initial audit for greater efficiency.

Audit Coverage

In an SCS GAP audit, we verify your Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs), including management commitment, mock recall, traceability, site selection, adjacent land use, fertilizer usage, water sourcing and usage, pest control and pesticide monitoring, and harvesting practices (employee hygiene, packaging storage, field sanitation and product transportation).

SCS can also perform GAP audits to the United Fresh Harmonized Audit Standard, including specialized audits such as Tomato Metrics.

For companies operating under HACCP plans, SCS includes a HACCP Food Safety Management plan audit in its GAP audit.

Complementary Services

SCS Global Services offers GFSI-level food safety certification including GlobalG.A.P. and SQF. Additionally, contact SCS for expert guidance if your company is interested in establishing a comprehensive HACCP-based Food Safety Management Plan or a food testing program as validation of an existing management plan.

Combine your food safety certifications with Certified Organic, Fair Trade, or Pesticide Residue Free certification for operational and cost efficiency.

1. Apply for Auditing

   Fill out an SCS Application form, which provides us with the details of your site and operation. Contact SCS at [email protected] to request guidance. SCS staff returns a proposal to you for signature. To initiate the certification process, return a signed proposal and Work Order.

2. Schedule the Audit

   SCS assigns an auditor and audit dates are proposed. Once an audit date is confirmed, an audit plan is provided to ensure that your team is prepared.

3. On-Site Audit

   An on-site audit of your operation is carried out to ensure that your operation is in compliance. If a HACCP plan is in place, that is assessed as well.

4. Audit Report Review

   The auditor prepares and submits an audit report. Identified non-conformities must be addressed and evidence of corrective actions provided to SCS. The auditor review and closes out non-conformities.

5. Issue Audit Score

   SCS conducts a final technical review of the audit report and Corrective Action documentation and issues the final audit score.

6. Reporting

   FInal audit results are sent to you and posted, and are sent to specific retailers as requested.

Prepare for your audit with the checklist appropriate for your operation:

SCS GAP Audit Checklist

• Harvesting with HACCP
• Land and Growing with HACCP

Harmonized Tomato Metrics Audit Checklist

• Open Field with HACCP
• Greenhouse HACCP