This relates to a change to the GMP+ requirements to state the GMP+ status of a feed.

In the requirements until now the GMP⁺ status of a feed had be stated always. The change to the text amounts to just the status of non-GMP⁺ feeds being made known and then only to GMP⁺ companies or to companies which participate in a system approved by GMP⁺.

The basic principle is that a participant trades GMP⁺-certified feeds. The GMP⁺-certified customer may assume that his GMP⁺-certified supplier delivers GMP⁺-assured products. The trade in non-GMP⁺-assured products is considered to be an exception which deviates from the regular trade. The written notification of the non-standard situation is necessary.

The instruction for the reporting of the GMP⁺ status of the products is limited to those customers who are GMP⁺-certified or who are certified in accordance with another quality system specified by the PDV as equivalent. These equivalent certification schemes are specified in GMP⁺ Appendix 10. This avoids negative clauses in contracts or delivery documents being inserted when selling to areas or customers who have no knowledge of or interest in GMP⁺.

The proposed text gives the customers certainty with respect to the GMP⁺ status of products and avoids undesired side effects.

Here you find the link to the Standards GMP⁺ B2 and GMP⁺ B3 (2007) . Previous versions of the standard documents you find here.