Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) Certificatiom

Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification audits – enable your organisation to demonstrate its commitment to providing safe and sustainably sourced seafood.
SGS is an approved certification body for the GAA BAP certification.
The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) developed BAP standards, a voluntary certification programme for aquaculture facilities, which addresses environmental and social responsibility, animal welfare, food safety and traceability. BAP certification enables aquaculture farms, hatcheries, processing plants and feed mills to reassure everyone involved in the industry, including consumers, that their seafood is raised and processed to the highest industry best practices. At SGS we can audit your business against the BAP standards to demonstrate compliance, identify shortcomings and recommend certification as appropriate.
Key elements of BAP certification audits include:
Environment
Social responsibility
Animal welfare
Food safety
Traceability
WHY CHOOSE BAP CERTIFICATION?
Successful participants in the BAP programme are awarded the ‘Best Aquaculture Practices Certification’ mark for use on packaging of seafood products and promotional materials, demonstrating to consumers your commitment to providing safe and sustainably sourced seafood. The BAP Seafood Processing Plant Standard is also benchmarked against the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). This means on successful completion of the BAP programme you can now receive both BAP certification and GFSI compliance through a single audit process.
WHY CHOOSE A BAP CERTIFICATION AUDIT FROM SGS?
SGS is positioned to audit against the highest levels of quality and safety. Our network of food testing laboratories allows fast and efficient examination and testing of all the effluent and seafood samples needed to determine compliance with BAP criteria. As an approved BAP Certification Body (CB) we and the BAP Management Group validate your compliance to the BAP standards.