Potential benefits and challenges related to Good Agricultural Practices
Potential benefits of GAP
Appropriate adoption and monitoring of GAP helps improve the safety and quality of food and other agricultural products.
It may help reduce the risk of non-compliance with national and international regulations, standards and guidelines (in particular of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (html), World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) (html) and the International Plant Protection Convention IPPC (html)) regarding permitted pesticides, maximum levels of contaminants (including pesticides, veterinary drugs, radionuclide and mycotoxins) in food and non-food agricultural products, as well as other chemical, microbiological and physical contamination hazards.
Adoption of GAP helps promotes sustainable agriculture and contributes to meeting national and international environment and social development objectives.