Japan Good Agricultural Practices (JGAP) and its

Requirements

Presented by: Yasuaki Takeda, Asia GAP Research Institute

Managing Director, October 2015

11jinseng farm in Korea Tea leaf farm in Japan

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Asia GAP Research Institute researched from 2006 to 2014

The cause of pesticide residue over safety standard in Japan

unregistered agricultural chemical

usage

Drift from next field

improper usage

Unwashed sprayer

Soil residue of pesticide

Contamination after harvest

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Example of foreign material contaminated to F&V, rice and tea

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Statistics of work accident during farm operation

Death accident

during farm

operation

About 400

death/year

Since 1971

Death accident

during construction

work

About 350

death/year

85% down compare

to 19711971

2010

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In 2002, retailers and food service providers started their own GAP standard to manage their supplier and farmers for their store brand product.

Local government also established local GAP standard. Those GAPs had different Control Point and Criteria, and most of them had no certification system.

More than 100 different GAP standards in Japan

In 2006, JGAP office was founded by retailers and supplier-farmers to harmonize GAP scheme in Japan. Most of main retailer in Japan joined JGAP, and JGAP became the common standard GAP scheme in Japanese farming scene.

History of GAP in Japan

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In 2009, national government released GAP guideline for GAP scheme owners. JGAP was the 1st GAP scheme to meet this government guideline.

In 2010, JGAP started B to C labeling guideline

In 2011, JGAP started new standard that prevents contamination of radioactivity material.

In 2013, JGAP started benchmarking system for other GAP.

In 2013, JGAP English version was released, and also started JGAP self-inspection and declaration scheme.

In 2014, JGAP Chinese version started.

In 2015, JGAP office re-organized to Japan GAP Foundation

History of GAP in Japan

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JGAP standard is for everyone

JGAP standard is open for

everyone at JGAP website.

Fruits and Vegetable

Grain and rice

Tea

General Regulation

for audit and certification

Individual certification

Group certification

Japanese, English and Chinese

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JGAP is the most famous GAP certification scheme in Japan.

More than 130 control point for food safety and sustainability and work safety in farm.

JGAP has a certification system. There are 4 certification bodies those are accredited by JGAP.

JGAP is the trust mark of excellent Japanese farm.

Why JGAP?

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JGAP is the strict and excellent standard of farm management for food safety and sustainable agriculture.

JGAP is the up-to-date quality management technology for food safety on farm level in Japan, and keeps communication with GLOBALGAP in EU.

JGAP is focusing on safety from chemical residue, food poisoning caused by bacteria, contamination of foreign material and radioactive material.

JGAP focus on not only food safety but also eco-friendly and work safety on farm.

Most of major retailer in Japan supports JGAP, and use it for supplier management to keep food safety thorough farm to store.

What is JGAP?

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JGAP English version and Chinese version

JGAP

Chinese

JGAP

English

Statistics JGAP certified farms

- Product-liability insurance is provided to JGAP certified farms at no

charge.

Every March

Japan, Taiwan, and Korea

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Comparison of GAP

Japan MAFF GAP guideline Japan MAFF basic GAP JGAP GLOBALGAP

Sector Public Public Private Private

Owner Japan MAFF Japan MAFF Japan GAP foundation FoodPLUS

Certification body no service of certification no service of certification 4 of private more than 100

Accreditation body no service of certification no service of certificationJAB / Japan GAP foundation

IAF member AB

Validity no service of certification no service of certification 2 years 1 years

Scope

Fruite, Vegetable, Rice, Wheat, Tea, Feed crop, Mushroom

Fruite, Vegetable, Greenhouse Vegetable, Rice, Wheat, Soybean, Tea, Mushroom, Flower

Fruite & Vegetable, Rice & Grain, Tea

Fruite & Vegetable, Combinable Crops(Rice & Grain), Tea, Flowers & Ornamentals, Green Coffee

ObjectFood Safety, Environmentally sustainable agriculture, Worker safety

Food Safety, Environmentally sustainable agriculture

Food Safety, Environmentally sustainable agriculture, Worker safety, Human Rights and Walfare(next version)

Food Safety, Environmentally sustainable agriculture, Worker safety and welfare

Certified farms in Japan 0 0 2529 197

Certified farms in Taiwan 0 0 1 11

Certified farms in Korea 0 0 9unknown

Certified farms in China main land

0 0 0 290

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Structure of farm management required by JGAP

Step 1 : Governance in farm / clarification of responsibility,

the division of the roles / the directions and orders

Step 3 : Rule making

and clarify the process and procedure

Step 4 : keep everyone informed about rule and procedure,

and educate employee to follow them

Step 2 : Risk analysis and Assess production environment

Site / water / soil / facility / machinery and so on

Step 5 : Record recording, checking, and assessment of

farming processes and employee following rules

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Buyers involvement and commitment

Developing GAP standard with buyer-side

Buyer-side commitment to use GAP certification for

their procurement

Good number of good GAP trainer

Good standard

Farmer should feel better management of farm after

GAP implementation. Food safety, worker safety

and so on

Key factor of GAP spreading among farmers

Japan / Korea

Thailand / Taiwan

JGAP Certification Body 5

JGAP Auditor 11

JGAP inspector 21

JGAP junior inspector 81

JGAP certified

farms 2,529

2 train-the-trainer company

JGAP senior trainer 11

JGAP trainer 3099

JGAP junior trainer 3179

Japan GAP Foundation

323 member and 33 Technical

Committee from farmer,

Retailer, food industry,

chemical company etc.

Accredited by Japan GAP Foundation

Accredited by Japan GAP Foundation and JAB

Standard

Train the farmers

Audit / Certification

At March 2015

Structure of JGAP scheme and training and certification

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In Japan, Buyer’s attitude

How many buyers consider GAP certification for their buying decision?

(Japanese Ministry of Agriculture research to 542 retail, food-maker and food service provider on 2012)

How many? Why?

- 61.7% of buyer consider GAP certification for their buying decision.

- Those of 96.9% buyer answer food safety and supplier reliability

management as reason to consider GAP certification for their buying.

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Buyers involvement and commitment

Developing GAP standard with buyer-side

Buyer-side commitment to use GAP certification for

their procurement

Good number of good GAP trainer

Good standard

Farmer should feel better management of farm after

GAP implementation. Food safety, worker safety

and so on

Key factor of GAP spreading among farmers

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Does farmer feel JGAP benefits?

What kind of benefit

do you have from JGAP

implementation, not only

food safety, sustainability

and worker safety, but also

other benefit?

“ Better Management!! ”

2012 Survey conducted by National

Agriculture and Food Research

Organization

164 JGAP certified farms (individual

certification / Response rate: 54.2%)

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GLOBALG.A.P. control point & compliance criteria

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GLOBALGAP is the

common standard of GAP in

especially EU area.

EU retailer produce working

group developed its standard

Originally.

Most of major retailer use its

standard to procure fresh

produce.

But they does not use it for

rice & grain, animal product

and tea.

JGAP certification is the gateway for all requirement from buyer-side!

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Farm and farmers group

GLOBALGAP certified farm

JGAP certified farm

Public requirementFor exampleUSA/FDA, Food SafetyModernization Act

Guideline for JGAPCertified Producers

aiming at GLOBALG.A.P.Certification

Majority of buyer in Japan and other

country

Buyer who has unusual requirement

Support document

Buyer who require GLOBALGAP cert.

Buyer in USA

Supportdocument

JGAP

Tokyo Taiwan

Hong Kong

office

GFSI

recognized

in future

JGAP

Japanese version

English version

Chinese version

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JGAP and GLOBALG.A.P.

This guideline helps JGAP certified producer to get GLOBALG.A.P.

certification, as needed. You can find it at GLOBALG.A.P. website.

JGAP Implementation Case study : Kiwi fruit

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One brand, from several countries, from several areas, from several

farmers cooperative, from more than 1,000 farmers.

How do you manage the product quality and food safety on this

situation?

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JGAP Implementation Case study : Tea beverage

Global beverage company has own supplier code of practice. This

include food safety, sustainability, worker safety and human rights

and ethics.

Global head quarter gave local branch the strict order to follow their

code for all ingredient within 2 years.

How do you achieve and overcome this order?

Own standard

For procurement

JGAP standard

JGAP certification

Differences

Between

Own standard

and JGAP＝ +

JGAP application case

Compare own standard to JGAP, and develop document about differences to apply additionally.

There are JGAP trainer in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Thai. There are JGAP standard document in Japanese, English and Chinese. It is easy for farm to implement JGAP. And then, farm implement only differences additionally.

Combination of JGAP third party certification and second party certification for own standard using document about differences.

JGAP labeling for B to C

JGAP mark that farm and farmers

group Use. Certified farm and farmers

group use on the product such as

vegetable, fruit, brown rice, polished

rice and raw green tea.

JGAP mark that food maker

use. Food maker use on the

grocery such as polished rice,

frozen vegetable, fruit juice

and tea beverage, those should

be made by raw material from

certified farm and farmers

group.

Factory must

have ISO22000 or

FSSC22000 certification

Raw Material

Individual certification and Group cettification

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Individual certification

Inspect one farm to

evaluate compliance to

JGAP standard

Group certification

Audit farmer group to evaluate compliance to

JGAP standard, under quality management system

of farmer group.

JGAP

JAなど団体事務局

Quality Management

System of group

Leader of farmer group

農家ごとにバラバラの品質管理では、良い産地とは言えない。

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When is the best timing to audit the farm? It depends on the farm

Well Manage, Less Audit!

CB can skip “surveillance" under below condition.

Farm fully comply with the level of certificate without need of remedy at the day of

the inspection. And CB can confirm that the farm will be managed very well

without surveillance.

Audit timing and certification validity

Certificate issued on 15 Aug 2014 (for example)

Certificate renewedon 15 Aug 20162 Year Validity

First inspection

Once Surveillance during 1 certification validity. CB can decide the timing of surveillance to farm.

SecondInspection

JGAP

JGAP Benchmarked Equivalent Standards

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+J means difference

between JGAP and

T-GAP.

T-GAP farm try +J

part additionally, and

apply to JGAP

certification body.

And then the farm

can get JGAP

certificate.

Confirmed JGAP Benchmarked Equivalency

by defind process includes peer review.

JGAP

Certification Body

JGAP

Certification

T-GAP+J

Audit IssueTGAP+J

Example: T-GAP, this is localGAP used in Sizuoka Japan

Very easy.

No duplication.

技術委員会 本委員会

技術委員長 1名部会長 4名

課題ごとの専門審議会

生産性向上と管理技術の向上 専門審議会施肥 専門審議会

残留農薬 専門審議会病原性細菌管理 専門審議会

環境保全と持続的農業 専門審議会労働安全・農機 専門審議会

海外活用 専門審議会

JGAP2015 direction to develop

Proper and economical farm management

GAP to improve farm management and farm productivity

Adapt to Japan, East Asia and South-East Asia field

GAP to adapt highly automated factorized farm and ingredient of herbal remedy

GAP to be recognized by GFSI

品目部会

– 青果物部会（部会長1名）

• 土耕青果物・薬用作物 小部会

• 水耕青果物（植物工場） 小部会

• きのこ 小部会

– 穀物部会（部会長1名）

• コメ 小部会

• 麦・大豆・その他穀物 小部会

– 茶部会（部会長1名）

審査認証部会（部会長1名）

団体認証制度も管掌

JGAP2015 is coming soon!

Technical CommiteeSubCommitee

for Fruit

for Vegetable

for Mashroom

for Rice

for Grain

for Tea

for certificate system

etc

Special Committee

for productivity

for pesticide

for disease germs

for worker safety

etc

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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JGAP self-inspection and declaration of implementation

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This process is for

producers aiming at

JGAP certification.

Producer can get JGAP

Certification directly,

and also via JGAP

self-inspection and

declaration process.

More than 5,000 JGAP

trainers help producer

to self-inspect

and declaration of

implementation.

JGAP self-inspection

and declaration of implementation

Producer aiming at JGAP certification

JGAP third-party audit and certification

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Latest study of radioactive from Fukushima

Codex / ASEAN

1,000

1,000

1,000

-

(Bq/kg)

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Latest study of radioactive from Fukushima

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Latest study of radioactive from Fukushima

Hong Kong

Causeway Bay

detected by

Takeda

2011

Fukushima

Soma

40km from

Fukushima

nuclear power

stations

detected by

Takeda

2014

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JGAP office

JGAP expand to East Asia!

JGAP office Supported by AGRI Taichung

JGAP officeTokyo

JGAP officeSupported by

AGRIHong Kong

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Corporate profile

Corporate name Asia GAP Research Institute (AGRI)

Organizational Status incorporated nonprofit organization

Date Established Nov. 2006, changed corporate name in 2015

Office Nihon Nogyo Kenkyujo Bldg. 4F 3-29 Kioi-cho

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Tel: +81 – 3 – 6380 - 9050

Website: http://asiagap.jp / E-mail: info@asiagap.jp

Activities 1. Help farmer to implement GAP, and train the GAP

trainer in Asia

2. Think tank and Research of GAP in Asia

Membership 330 member of Farmer, food retailer and all

stakeholders of agriculture and food industry

Partnership Japan GAP foundation / GLOBALGAP

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Think consumerThink sustainability

Think staff in farm

Thank you