{"id":1000262,"date":"2012-02-08T17:22:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T17:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=262&#038;source_id=262&#038;target_id=1000262"},"modified":"2024-10-16T10:17:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T08:17:24","slug":"chain-of-custody-certification-for-asc-certified-seafood-now-open-for-accreditation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/news\/chain-of-custody-certification-for-asc-certified-seafood-now-open-for-accreditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Chain of Custody Certification for ASC-certified seafood now open for accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"block wysiwyg\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><b>Companies that want to trade\/process ASC-certified seafood products will need to be chain-of-custody certified.<\/b> <b>ASC has now opened accreditation for certifiers. Once accredited, those certifiers can be contracted by traders\/processors choosing to trade ASC-certified products<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To help the market handle ASC-certified products as efficient as possible, ASC and the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) have updated the MSC chain-of-custody system to include the assessment of ASC-certified farms products. The MSC Certification Requirements v.1.2 (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msc.org\/documents\/scheme-documents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.msc.org\/documents\/scheme-documents<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) now includes Annex BE, which details the variations between chain-of-custody assessments for the handling of MSC and ASC-certified products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Companies that already hold a valid chain-of-custody certification for MSC-certified products, can apply for a combined certification for both seafood types by means of a simplified assessment process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Companies which do not yet hold MSC chain-of-custody certification will need to be fully assessed to become chain-of-custody certified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several certification bodies have already applied to Accreditation Service International (ASI) for carrying out assessments of ASC products and are currently under review. For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accreditation-services.com\/programs\/asc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ASI&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000262","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1000262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}