What is GMP+?

GMP stands for voor Good Manufacturing Practices. In 1992 the current GMP+ Feed Certification scheme started out with this. Afterwards, it developed into a full-fledged certification scheme by integrating ISO quality management requirements, HACCP and other elements.
The + stands for the integration of HACCP: ‘Hazards Analysis and Critical Control Points’. The foundation of the GMP+ systematic is partly determined by continuous improvement according to the principle of the Deming circle ‘Plan, Do, Check, Act’: write down what I’m doing, do what I’ve written down and providing proof that I effectively did it.

With over 13,400 participating companies in more than 70 countries, GMP+ International is a leading global player in the market of feed safety assurance certification. A GMP+ certificate provides an additional qualitative guarantee for every entrepreneur dealing with the international feed industry.

A quality mark of GMP+ International tells you, the entrepreneur, that participating companies from the international food chain guarantee reliability, quality, sustainability and safety. That means that they meet all local and international statutory standards in the feed industry.

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Advantages of GMP+ certification

Companies benefit from GMP+ certification, because it:

1) is focused on quality management (ISO 9001) and risk management (HACCP);

2) provides access to supporting information and services, such as risk assessments, fact sheets, storing
and sharing your monitoring data, newsletters, Early Warning messages etc);

3) offers new sales opportunities and to a great degree, ensures the retention of current customers;

4) guarantees the continuity of business operations, because the corporate structure is set up more
efficiently and the costs and financial risks are limited;

5) helps improve the company image and the reliability;

6) makes your company part of a globally operating feed safety system (the GMP+ certificate is accepted
internationally by about 12000 companies in 66 countries);

7) is accepted by other (inter)national schemes;

8) can easily be combined with multiple certifications (feed safety and sustainability);

9) contributes to uniformity in the feed chain.