Identity-Preserved Systems: A Reference Handbook

by Strayer; Dennis

• ISBN13: 9780849313905
• ISBN10: 0849313902
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-23
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Identity-Preserved Systems: A Reference Handbook provides background for the development of processes or systems of maintaining the segregation of and documenting the identity of a product. Growers and other parties that handle, transport, condition, or process the identity-preserved (IP) product must follow strict growing and handling practices, including segregation, inspections, and cleaning of equipment to prevent other varieties from mixing with or contaminating the IP variety. The key to this system is traceability. Each production, processing, and delivery step is documented, so that products can be traced from the store shelf back to the farmers' fields and every stage in between.The need for Identity Preservation (IP) is rapidly becoming of major importance in the world trade of agricultural crops that are enhanced genetically, grown under specific conditions, or have specific characteristics which must be identified and maintained from the seed planted to the delivery of the crop to the end-user. The handbook serves as an authoritative resource that unifies IP efforts, outlines the protocols for IP systems, and includes an operational manual that may be used at any point in the value-chain of the production and marketing effort.This handbook describes an overall identity-preserved (IP) system, which may be utilized in ways that will meet the particular needs of the parties involved in specific trade agreements. It discusses the background of IP systems originating in the seed industry, the basics of a total IP system, and the potential electronic transfer of data and documents. By using the system of identity-preserved verification provided in Identity-Preserved Systems, the seed, specialty crop, and grain and oilseed industries can easily provide products that are identified with a paper trail verifying identity, product quality, and special characteristics.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction to handbook
Part I: Introduction and theory	1	(2)
Introduction: Background and project objectives	3	(8)
Crop differentiation: Self-pollinated crops versus cross-pollinated	11	(6)
Basics of an identity-preserved (IP) system	17	(10)
Part II: Application	27	(2)
A complete value-chain IP system	29	(12)
Mechanics and economics of IP systems	41	(42)
Inspections, sampling, and testing	83	(18)
Verification and documentation requirements	101	(6)
Third-party inspection, testing, and verification	107	(4)
Part III: Separate related topics	111	(2)
Innovations in IP	113	(4)
Implications for each value-chain level	117	(6)
Scenarios regarding the demand for IP crops	123	(4)
GMO: Genetically modified organisms	127	(8)
Country requirements for importation	135	(12)
Existing IP systems	147	(20)
Part IV: Appendices and glossary	167	(4)
Appendix A: Seed Certifying Agencies	171	(10)
Appendix B: AOSCA Summary of IP Services	181	(2)
Appendix C: Organizations Related to IP	183	(10)
Appendix D: Acronyms Used in Agriculture and World Trade	193	(2)
Appendix E: Adventitious Pollen Intrusion into Hybrid Maize Seed Production Fields--a research paper with analysis and interpretation for application to identity-preserved systems	195	(18)
Glossary	213	(14)
The author	227	(2)
Index	229