Retailer applies produce criteria

ONE of the country’s largest sellers of home-produced fresh foods, Musgrave SuperValu-Centra (MSVC), is to implement the EUREPGAP standards as best practice for its fruit and vegetable producers in Ireland and overseas.

EUREPGAP, which started in 1997 as an initiative of retailers belonging to the Euro-Retailer Produce Working Group, has now evolved into a partnership of agricultural producers and their retail customers.

The aim is to develop accepted standards and procedures for the global certification of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP).