sults even if the audits were performed
by different organizations. It would also
allow produce suppliers to follow one set
of expectations and not have to make
changes to suit the auditor of the day.
strong resistance from their suppliers and
the produce industry and eventually
abandoned their standard. Why? The
produce suppliers felt that the standard
had been developed in secret, without
“By 2007, ‘audit fatigue’ had become almost
as big an issue in the fresh produce industry as
food safety.”
However, harmonization of GAP au-
dits has been tried before. In 2007, the
Food Safety Leadership Council (FSLC),
a coalition of foodservice and retail com-
panies, published a food safety standard
for certain fresh produce items. Their in-
tent was to agree among themselves
what the expectations would be in order
to reduce the number of audits that their
common suppliers would need to have.
However, rather than gaining acceptance
of this noble effort, the FSLC faced
their input, and they were immediately
and irrevocably suspicious of the stan-
dard.
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