Canada: Great cherry harvest so far
So far this season, for cherries generally, its been a great harvest. The weather has been co-operating, with beautiful sunny days and cooler nights, giving excellent sugar levels and firmness of fruit. Sizes are up and there are said to be promotable volumes of 8.5 row export cherries.
GAP and Food Safety
All of Global Fruit’s Growers and packinghouses have undergone their annual Global Good Agricultural Practices Audits at the end of June.
Global Fruit have also completed Tesco's Nuture, Marks and Spencer's Field2Fork and an IFS Pre-Assessment.
"Global Fruit Has taken the position that we will only market for Grower’s and Packer’s committed to maintaining the worldwide GlobalGAP standard which is recognized in over 80 countries. All of our partner packinghouses complete and maintain the Produce Handling addendum. SGS Canada, a global certification body administered the audits this season."
For more information:
Global Fruit
Tel: (North America) +1-866-428-2320 (world wide) +1-250-428-2320
www.globalfruit.org
