- What is Environmentfriendly Agricultural Products Certification System? Environment-friendly Agricultural Products Certification is aimed to contribute to conservation of natural environments and supply safer agricultural products to consumers. Environment-friendly agricultural products do not use or minimize the use of the synthetic organic pesticides or chemical fertilizers.
Organic Agricultural Products:Agricultural products for which organic synthetic agrochemicals and chemical fertilizers are not used.
Organic Livestock: ivestock for which antibiotics/antimicrobials are not used and organic feed are fed.
Pesticide-free agricultural products:Agricultural products for which organic synthetic agrochemicals are not used and chemical fertilizers are used below 1/3 of recommended level
Antibiotics-free livestock: Livestock for which antibiotics/antimicrobial-free feeds are fed.
Low-pesticide agricultural products:Agricultural products for which organic synthetic herbicides are not used and synthetic agrochemical/chemical fertilizers are used below 1/2 of standard amount
What is GAP Certification System?GAP Certification is a system aimed at ensuring the safety of agri-food products and at the same time preserving the agricultural environments.The Gap system effectively manages factors affecting the agricultural environment such as cultivation fields and agricultural water, as well as hazardous elements such as pesticide, heavy metal, persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and harmful organisms, during the each stage of production, post-harvest management (storage, cleaning, drying, selection, cutting, preparation, packaging, etc.) and istribution.
What is Agricultural Products Traceability System?Agricultural Products Traceability system is aimed to register and manage the information about agricultural products from production to distribution stage in order to identify the cause of any safety problems and takes immediate actions to fix them.
What is KPGI?KPGI (Korea Protected Geographical Indication) is a labeling system to indicate that an agricultural or processed agricultural products are from a specific geographical location or origin in Korea in cases where the reputation, quality or characteristics of the product is fundamentally attributed to its geographical origin.
- What is Processed Agri-Food Certification system? Processed Agri-Food Certification is a system that improves the competitiveness of food industry and contributes to national economy through KS, Korean traditional food and processed organic food certification systems.
KS (Korean Industrial Standard)-certified processed foodsCertification of foods produced and processed according to KS to facilitate standardization of the food industry and improve food quality
Korean traditional foodsCertification of foods produced and processed according to the standard of traditional foods with Korean agricultural products and of which main ingredients are from domestic farm produce for quality improvement and production promotion of traditional foods and consumer protection.
Processed organic foodsCertification of foods satisfying the certification standard and criteria of organic foods for the promotion of domestic organic agriculture and consumer protection
