AGRICULTURE AND FOOD

DELIVERING VALUE ALONG

THE SUPPLY CHAIN

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TRUST
ACCURACY
EXPERTISE
SUSTAINABILITY
We help ensure the integrity of the food chain by providing services that cover all aspects of the agricultural
industry, helping customers manage crops, enhance seed development, conduct soil testing and
harvesting, move product through the global supply chain and manage trade inspection at export and
import. Serving all of the major players in the agricultural sector, our services reduce risk, ensure quality
and improve productivity.

SGS business benefits: PRODUCTIVITY - we ensure

productivity keeps pace with
QUALITY - we certify and verify Our services cover:
developments in our customers’
quality worldwide through our • SEED AND CROP
organisations
global network • COMMODITIES
SPEED TO MARKET - we help our • FOOD
SAFETY - we protect employees,
customers overcome the complex • FORESTRY
generating consumer confidence
challenges of understanding and • BIOFUELS
and enhancing trust in business
meeting market demands
operations
TRUST - we deliver transparent
REDUCED RISK - we reduce risk
and high quality independent
and ensure compliance to
inspection, testing, verification and
International Standards
certification
EFFICIENCY - we provide business
SUSTAINABILITY - we help our
solutions to make business
customers ensure compliance,
operations faster, simpler and
building a more responsible and
more efficient
sustainable future

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 IN THE FIELD

SEED & CROP

EFFICIENCY IN AGRICULTURE FROM INPUT R&D TO HARVESTING

Agricultural production needs continuous FIELD PREPARATION AND FERTILITY HARVEST

innovation to improve the management MANAGEMENT • Yield assessment
and sustainability of our natural
• GPS sampling • Harvest monitoring
resources. With demands for efficiency
• Soil / Leaf nutrient testing • Quality mapping
and increasing environmental concerns,
• Fertility management
expertise in research activities, product SGS CAN ALSO PROVIDE:
• Soil classification
development, fertility management,
• Irrigation water testing • Crop monitoring and barter trade
other analytical techniques and farm
• Fertiliser field trials related services
management practices are crucial
• Precision farming support • Market research services
for success.
• Fertigation monitoring • Farm assessments, audits and
We have developed tailored solutions • Consulting certifications (Good Agriculture
packages to deliver the best in class Practices)
service. From precision farming to SEED
• Brand protection and supply chain
regulatory affairs and from seed testing • Seed sampling / Seed testing integrity solutions
to harvest monitoring, we offer • IP traceability / Field audits • Project finance / Investment in
independent and accurate studies • Seed / Variety field trials farmland projects
and results. • Laboratory research
• ISTA certification
• Seed quarantine
• Training

CROP PROTECTION
• Field trials (R&D,
registration, demonstration)
• Residue studies
• Environmental fate / Ecotoxicology
• Product chemistry
• Regulatory affairs / Registration
• Field inspections / Crop scouting

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IN THE PORT

COMMODITIES

ENSURE QUALITY AND QUANTITY

Ensure the quality and the quantity of • Mycotoxins RISK MANAGEMENT

your commodities with SGS. We control • Pesticide residues
• Guarantee services
and analyze your products to be sure • Minerals detection
-  Full Outturn Guarantee (FOG) –
they meet quality, safety and compliance • Nutritional labeling
Guaranteeing the outturn weight
requirements for all your global • Dioxins
of a consignment
destinations. Our services extend to the • Amino acids
-  Comprehensive Cover (CC) –
prevention of insect related damage, safe • Hay and forage testing
In addition to FOG, also covers
storage monitoring, logistics support and • Oilseed fatty acid profile
marine insurance
primary processing activities, all ensuring • Proximate analysis
-  Full Outturn Quality (FOQ) –
value is retained and even added where • Identification
For discrepancies in quality
possible through effective testing and
between loading and discharge
selection. INSPECTION SERVICES
-  Rejection Guarantee – Possible
Our qualified experts deliver • Cleanliness inspections rejection at destination
comprehensive services and cost • Damage survey - Customised services
effective solutions including, sampling, • Draft survey • Stock Monitoring Services
testing, inspection, control and • On site grading
certification of your commodities. We • Loading and discharge supervision AUDIT AND CERTIFICATION
provide a complete suite of solutions at • Metering services
•  RSPO, RTRS, ISPO, MSPO
every stage of the value chain, helping • Tank calibration
•  ISCC, REDcert
you to get agricultural commodities to • Inspection for contractual purposes
•  Bonsucro, GMP, Non-GMO
market more efficiently. (e.g. FOSFA, GAFTA)
• eCertificates MARKET INTELLIGENCE
ANALYTICAL SERVICES •  Crop quality maps
PEST MANAGEMENT AND FUMIGATION
 or all commodities, we test all main
F •  Export statistics
• Fumigation of stored goods, prior or •  Quality monitoring program
quality parameters including:
during shipment, •  Screening of undesirable substances
• Contaminants
• Ventilation and gas-free measurement •  Customised market research services
• GMO
• Quarantine fumigation of woods
• Microbial
product

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 IN THE MARKET

FOOD

SOLUTIONS FOR FOOD SAFETY, QUALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY

Our industry expertise and experience Our tailor made solutions are devised in RETAIL AND FOOD SERVICES
delivers efficient services to help close co-operation with your organisation.
• Testing services
safeguard quality and safety throughout They can include not only all industry
• Inspection
the whole food supply chain, from raw sectors but also the increasing focus
• Private label audits
and semi-manufactured foodstuffs from clients and consumers on the social,
• Food safety training
to final products in all principal food economic and environmental impact of
• Mystery shopping
segments. We deliver comprehensive your day-to-day activities.
and cost-effective control solutions AUDIT AND CERTIFICATION
including audits, testing, inspection, LOGISTICS, PROCESSORS AND
• ISO 22000, ISO 9001, ISO 14001,
technical solutions and training. These MANUFACTURERS
ISO 28000, ISO 20000
services can be stand alone or part of an •  Temperature controlled logistics • MSC, BAP, Friends of the Sea
integrated package of measures to assist operations • BRC, QS, IFS, SQF
your company in continuously improving •  Raw processing: monitoring of • SMETA, SEDEX
the culture of food safety, quality and processing, QA outsourcing • Halal, Non Gluten
sustainable development. •  Testing (pesticide and antibiotic
We provide a comprehensive food residues, pathogenic bacteria,
safety control solution combining audits, allergens, additives, heavy metals)
testing and training with the mindset of •  Inspection
continuously improving your systems. • Paper packaging and environmental
testing services

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BE SUSTAINABLE

FORESTRY & ALTERNATIVE FUELS

ACCESSING SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainable practices are spreading FOR THE FORESTRY SUPPLY CHAIN, FOR THE ALTERNATIVE FUELS INDUSTRY,
rapidly throughout the agricultural and SGS OFFERS THE FOLLOWING SERVICES: SGS PROVIDES:
forestry industries. Due to growing
• Forest inventory and consulting • Assessments
awareness about the climate change,
• Forest management certification • Analytical services
biodiversity losses, the contamination
• Forest plantation review • Inspection services
or depletion of water sources,
• Analytical services • Greenhouse gas calculations
consciousness is increasing about
• Inspection services •  Audits and certification such as ISCC,
sustainable practices. Consumers of
• Risk management RedCert, RSPO, RTRS, Bonsucro,
forestry and biofuel products want to
• Pest control, heat treatments and several forest system certifications,
understand the economic, environmental
fumigation services ISO 50001, LEAF Marque and
and social impact from their production.
• Assessments, audit, certification much more
and IP programs
• Monitoring

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regulations, as well as updates in specific Retail industry, our experts provide
capabilities developed within the SGS insights on international developments,
network. new regulations, case studies and
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industry, focusing on quality, safety and
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• ISO9001 AND ISO17025 CERTIFICATIONS
• SUPERINTENDENT AND ANALYST MEMBER OF GAFTA AND FOSFA
• EXPERIENCED, PROFESSIONAL AND DEDICATED PERSONNEL THAT WILL EXCEED YOUR EXPECTATIONS
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• STATE-OF-THE-ART EQUIPMENT
• FAST AND ACCURATE RESULTS AND REPORTS
• A TRULY GLOBAL NETWORK

A GLOBAL REACH WITH A LOCAL TOUCH

With a presence in all major regions of SGS is the world’s leading inspection,
the globe, our experts speak the local verification, testing and certification CONTACT US:
language, understand the culture of the company. SGS is recognised as the global E-mail: [email protected]
local market and operate globally in a benchmark for quality and integrity. Web: www.sgs.com
consistent, reliable and cost-effective With more than 80 000 employees,
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