This video explains how crops from overseas are verified as meeting the same legal food and feed safety standards as UK-grown crops through equivalent assurance schemes and rigorous testing.
Members are reminded of valuable resources available on the AIC website to help answer industry questions and share with stakeholders regarding imported crop standards and ergot.
Following an industry request, AIC evaluated the implementation of the Gatekeeper protocol, which is currently used for imported crops, as a method of UK crop assurance.
