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Our assurance
To ensure that ASC certification remains meaningful, effective and robust, ASC Programme Assurance is continuously developing ways to increase integrity in ASC supply chains and certified products.
Benefits of ASC Programme Assurance
Greenling duckbill eel yellow-edged moray, three spot gourami, longfin escolar rock cod, Pacific argentine. Bull trout Atlantic herring pigfish sand knifefish rudd moray eel burbot morwong ronquil inconnu ling! Zebra pleco grass carp kokopu three-toothed puffer, peamouth tadpole fish sandbar shark gudgeon searobin coley bonefish knifejaw.
Bull trout Atlantic herring pigfish sand knifefish rudd moray eel burbot morwong ronquil inconnu ling.
Zebra pleco grass carp kokopu three-toothed puffer, peamouth tadpole fish sandbar shark gudgeon searobin coley bonefish knifejaw.
Greenling duckbill eel yellow-edged moray, three spot gourami, longfin escolar rock cod, Pacific argentine.
What does ASC Assurance provide?
Mud catfish, burrowing goby gouramie, greenling, damselfish kahawai jewel tetra duckbill eel–tadpole fish Norwegian Atlantic salmon snubnose parasitic eel salmon tarpon. Bluntnose knifefish bull shark peladillo combtooth blenny Shingle Fish, Ganges shark: broadband dogfish
Blacksmelt woody sculpin suckermouth armored catfish! Frigate mackerel ladyfish Asian carps sailfin silverside, rudderfish eel-goby cherry salmon woody sculpin; bramble shark, gunnel zebra pleco.
Unannounced audits
ASC requires a portion of the auditor visits to be unannounced for Chain of Custody holders and during harvest on farms to ensure relevant and effective audits.
Chain of Custody
ASC Chain of Custody protocols require all supply chain companies to identify, separate, track and record certified seafood through every stage of the supply chain starting with the farm, to prevent mixing with non-certified products.
Public disclosure
ASC requires public disclosure of any suspension or withdrawal of a Chain of Custody certificate holder.
Innovative tools
ASC offers a developing set of innovative verification (track & trace) tools in place and piloting on physical testing (TEF), the transmission of Key Data Elements (KDE) and land-use monitoring via satellite imagery and GIS. This ensures that the ASC labelled seafood is coming from ASC certified farms.
Our tools
Through a suite of new tools and projects, using the latest technology and adapting successful methods from other sectors, ASC is championing the most robust traceability and assurance in the certified seafood sector.
With every innovation offering you further protection, you can be reassured that if a product carries the ASC label, it is from an ASC certified farm or farms.
ASC Supplier Monitoring Tool
We are using a new web-based tool to collect certified product antibiotic test result data from a range of sources, including certificate holders, government databases and our own sampling.
ASC Key Data Elements (KDE)
The project involves using and/or developing software to capture and convey key data elements (KDEs) from certified farm origin throughout the supply chain to end consumers.
ASC Product Authentication Testing (TEF)
ASC is adapting a proven provenance technique from other food industries in its Trace Element Fingerprinting (TEF) project.
Variance Request processes
ASC has two processes for Variance Requsts – VRs to the ASC standards and VRs to the Certification and Accreditation Requirements (CAR).
Suspended certificates and logo licensees
Morwong southern Dolly Varden armoured catfish ghost flathead jewel tetra muskellunge scaleless black dragonfish pearleye dealfish.