Articles
INTEGRATED FRUIT PRODUCTION SYSTEM TRACES QUALITY AND SAFETY FOR BRAZILIAN FRUITS
Article number
894_29
Pages
247 – 253
Language
English
Abstract
The world consumer market is getting increasingly discernible and exigent.
Besides the quality of the fruits and their sources of production, cultural practices used in the field and post-harvest activities, including warehousing, transport, type of packaging and the shelves in the sales outlet.
Spain, France, Italy, among other countries of the European Community have adopted the integrated production system since 1980, based on the principles of the International Organization for Biological and Integrated Control of Noxious Animals and Plants (IOBC) which promote research and implementation of sustainable (environmentally safe, economically feasible, socially acceptable) control-methods of pests and diseases of agricultural and forestry crops.
In order to enhance the quality standard and the competitiveness of the Brazilian fruits, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA) started the Integrated Fruit Production (IFP) System in 1970. The IFP was effectively enacted in 1997, as an initiative of the apple growers and Embrapa Grape and Wine Research Center in Rio Grande do Sul State.
The IFP was legally settled through the Normative Instruction MAPA/SDC n° 20 whose legal status comprises: General Guidelines, General Technical Standards, Internal Rule of the Technical Commission, Definitions, Concepts, National Producers and Packagers Register Form and Conformity Evaluation Rule.
The technical standards comprise the 15 thematic areas, agrochemical list, field and postharvest records as well as the checking list (field and packer). Fruit growers join the IFP system at a voluntary basis.
Process of monitoring and traceability are conducted from field to final consumer.
Up till now, MAPA has published 18 specific technical standards for apple, mango, table grapes, papaya, cashew nut, melon, peach, orange, Tahiti lime, Persian lime, tangor Murcot, coconut, banana, fig, passion fruit, persimmon, guava and strawberry.
Besides the quality of the fruits and their sources of production, cultural practices used in the field and post-harvest activities, including warehousing, transport, type of packaging and the shelves in the sales outlet.
Spain, France, Italy, among other countries of the European Community have adopted the integrated production system since 1980, based on the principles of the International Organization for Biological and Integrated Control of Noxious Animals and Plants (IOBC) which promote research and implementation of sustainable (environmentally safe, economically feasible, socially acceptable) control-methods of pests and diseases of agricultural and forestry crops.
In order to enhance the quality standard and the competitiveness of the Brazilian fruits, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA) started the Integrated Fruit Production (IFP) System in 1970. The IFP was effectively enacted in 1997, as an initiative of the apple growers and Embrapa Grape and Wine Research Center in Rio Grande do Sul State.
The IFP was legally settled through the Normative Instruction MAPA/SDC n° 20 whose legal status comprises: General Guidelines, General Technical Standards, Internal Rule of the Technical Commission, Definitions, Concepts, National Producers and Packagers Register Form and Conformity Evaluation Rule.
The technical standards comprise the 15 thematic areas, agrochemical list, field and postharvest records as well as the checking list (field and packer). Fruit growers join the IFP system at a voluntary basis.
Process of monitoring and traceability are conducted from field to final consumer.
Up till now, MAPA has published 18 specific technical standards for apple, mango, table grapes, papaya, cashew nut, melon, peach, orange, Tahiti lime, Persian lime, tangor Murcot, coconut, banana, fig, passion fruit, persimmon, guava and strawberry.
Authors
O.K. Yamanishi, A.C. Queiroz Pinto
Keywords
environmentally safe, economically feasible, socially acceptable, traceability, food safety
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