Farm First

Farm First assurance scheme is a new global certification scheme designed to deliver safe and secure food supply chains with a commitment to animal, bird, and worker welfare. Underpinned by local regulatory and relevant environmental requirements, Farm First also contains Good Agricultural Practices (GAP).

Farm First is designed to deliver confidence and value across the supply chain and providing certain criteria are met, can also be delivered as a remote audit. Protecting and enhancing your brand reputation and reducing risk, confirming your ethical and sustainable credentials, and increasing the transparency and visibility of your supply chain. As well as meeting consumer and retailer expectations and driving business opportunities. Farm First allows brands to drive continual improvement through the opportunity to measure performance and identify and potentially improve on the grading level achieved. It’s also flexible by design to suit your business and your operations.

It is on a rolling annual basis; audits are on a 12-monthly interval with spot audits in response to a variety of factors.

Application – Audit – Review of audit findings – Close out of non-compliances – Certification decision – Certification.

In order to ensure consumer confidence in supply chains with transparency whilst maintaining high animal and worker welfare. Allows for full traceability of the supply chain whilst also covering environmental and legal compliance reducing the risks of sourcing from an unassured supply chain.