PrimusLabs GAP
Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) are guidelines established that ensure that field operations account for potential food safety issues. The PrimusLabs GAP program addresses the food safety topics of site selection, adjacent land use, fertilizer usage, water sourcing and usage, pest control and pesticide monitoring, harvesting practices (including worker hygiene, packaging storage, field sanitation and product transportation) and food defense. Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) are developed and incorporated into the GAP program, providing guidance with respect to potential points for contamination and preventative or corrective measures to mitigate their effects.
Audit Type Checklist Audit Scoring Guidelines Paperwork Checklist
Harvest Crew v07.04
Ranch v07.04 Rev. 1
Greenhouse v07.08
Pre-Harvest Block v06.09
Pre-Season Food Safety Inspection v07.04
Pre-Season Food Safety Inspection v10.01


Food Safety Program Tools

Primuslabs provides various free self help webtools to guide you in your food safety operations. You can use them as tools in your audit preparation:
  • The Food Safety Manual Development Program is a step by step, easy to use interactive manual builder for shippers, growers and produce suppliers.
  • The Manual Development Toolkit has been designed to help start off your company's program by providing simple generic, pre-made documents ready for editing.
  • The Online Audit Program allows you to create self-audits, to give you an idea of where improvements should be made.
These tools require the user to tailor the information to fit their operations specific situation.

Apart from helping you build your food safety program, this may also help you prepare for an audit.


Getting started in the auditing process

Please complete the Field Information Sheet with information of your operations to be audited, and send it to auditadmins@primuslabs.com or fax it to 805-352-1364 in order to get the scheduling process started.

Include an Audit Release Statement if you want to permit the release of your audit data to PrimusLabs' active buyer sites. Please note there is a fee per transfer.

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