The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Board of Directors has announced that the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) has achieved recognition against Version 7.1 of the GFSI Benchmarking Requirements. GAA is an international, nonprofit trade association dedicated to advancing seafood safety and environmentally and socially responsible aquaculture. Through the development of its BAP certification standards, GAA has become the leading standards-setting
organization for aquaculture seafood.
As part of its objective to continually evolve its benchmarking requirements to reflect new industry challenges, best practices and stakeholder input, GFSI published version 7.1 in 2017. With this, all recognized certificate programme owners were invited to complete a new benchmarking assessment. GFSI was pleased to receive an application for re-benchmarking from GAA. Through the re-benchmarking process, GAA continued in their efforts to maintain their recognition for their standard "Seafood Processing Standard Issue 5.0", and ensure their programmes aligned with the Benchmarking Requirements. This collaborative exercise is one of the key ways in which GFSI ensures that new requirements are implemented throughout the industry to ensure safe food for consumers, everywhere.