Hygiene Module

DRAFT version - Nov09

Based on “GLOBALGAP Control Points and Compliance Criteria

Integrated Farm Assurance” (V3.0-2_Sep07, English Version)

GLOBALG.A.P.Smallholder Guide for

GLOBALG.A.P.

Introduction

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Table of content

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2. Personal hygiene .......................................................

3. Harvesting hygiene ....................................................

4. Produce handling hygiene ..........................................

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GLOBALGAP has become an important standard not only for large-scale farms but also for smallholders all

around the world. GLOBALGAP implementation can improve the farm management practices of smallholders, and

GLOBALGAP certification can be a tool for smallholders to access the global market and to be integrated into the

global supply chain. However, compliance to the standard remains a challenge to the smallholders with low level

of literacy and financial means.

This Guide can be used by farmers who want to understand the standard requirement, by trainers who implement

the standard in small-scale farms and by any non-technical person who wishes to understand what the

standard talks about.

The bottom page of each section refers to “Relevant GLOBALGAP Control Points” that are covered in the section.

This Guide covers all the Control Points of the following sections.

GLOBALGAP All Farm Base Module

AF 3. Workers Health, Safety and Welfare (Only the control points related to Hygiene are covered

in this document.)

GLOBALGAP Fruits and Vegetable Module

FV 4. Harvesting

(FV 5. Produce Handling is not covered in this document but is covered in the document titled,

“GLOBALGAP Smallholder QMS Set-up Guide”.)

This Guide focuses on the theme of hygiene. Other themes will be covered in separate Guides. For further

information and detail on the standard requirement, please refer to the original standard document: “GLOBALGAP

Control Points and Compliance Criteria - Integrated Farm Assurance” (V3.0-2_Sep07, English Version).

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This Smallholder Guide provides guidance on how smallholders can comply with the standard in simple and

effective ways. This is not a normative document that prescribes what to be done on smallholder farms, but is a

guidance document to provide examples, tips and suggestions for implementation.

Disclaimer

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1. Farm hygiene

Keeping your farm hygienic is essential for production of safe products. By putting up a display on general hygiene instructions, workers and anyone else who comes to the farm can always be reminded to keep the farm hygienic.

Relevant GlobalGAP Control Point

Example of a farm hygiene poster

General instructions should include:- Keep your hands clean- Cover skin cuts- Smoking, eating and drinking in designated areas - Notify the farm manager if you have health problems- Use suitable protective clothing - etc.

If most of your workers are illiterate, the display should be pictorial.

Using the display, train all the workers on the topic of general hygiene.

When visitors and subcontractors come to the farm, ask them to see the display.

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2. Personal hygiene

Personal hygiene is critical especially at harvesting, because the workers will be in direct contact with the produce. If they are sick, if their hands are dirty, or if they wear big jewelry, harvested produce could be contaminated or damaged.

All harvest workers need to be trained on hygiene. They should always be reminded of personal hygiene instructions with a display at the farm.

Relevant GlobalGAP Control Point

Example of a personal hygiene display

Personal hygiene instructions should include:- Wash hands - No big jewelry and watch - Keep fingernails short - Eating, smoking, drinking at a designated area- etc.

If most of your workers are illiterate, the display should be pictorial.

Using the display, train all the harvest workers on the topic of personal hygiene.

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3. Harvesting hygiene

At harvesting, anything that gets into a direct contact with produce should be kept clean.

Relevant GlobalGAP Control Point

Containers are kept clean and used only for produce (not for transporting other things).

Tools (knives, scissors, gloves etc.) are kept clean and disinfected.

Vehicles are cleaned regularly.

Hands are kept clean by having access to clean toilets and hand washing facility.

Workers should be able to accessa toilet within 500m from their work siteor access one with a transport.

Hand washing facility made of a bucket and a tap

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4. Produce handling hygiene

If you are packing your produce into cartons used for export directly in the field, ensure that packing and storing condition and packaging materials are hygienic.

If you are packing your produce at a packhouse, you need to comply with thehygiene requirements at a packhouse. Refer to the produce handling section of the “GLOBALGAP Smallholder QMS Set-up Guide.”

Before packing, sort the produce according to a quality criteria.

Keep packed produce at a clean place under shade. If you keep them directly on the soil, under the sun or leave them overnight, they could get contaminated and the quality will deteriorate.

Keep the packaging materials at a clean place. Do not store them outside.

Example of a quality criteriafor green beans

Produce on the ground Produced exposed to the sun

Produce kept under shade Sheet to keep the produce off the soil

Packed produce kept undershade

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Relevant GlobalGAP Control Point

If you use water to wash the produce or use ice to pack the produce, it should be made of potable water.

After a day of work, clean all the reject produce and packaging materials from the field.

Broccoli packed with ice

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