ASC – Certification schemes accepted under the ASC Feed Standard
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What is it?
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) is an independent, international non-profit organization that manages a leading certification and labeling program for responsible aquaculture.
Together with their partners, they run a program to transform seafood farming globally and promote the best environmental and social aquaculture performance towards environmental sustainability and social responsibility.
What is it?
The list is used as one of the pathways to demonstrate low risk in the sourcing of marine and plant-based ingredients under the ASC Feed standard and outlines what schemes ASC considers to demonstrate low risk in the sourcing of marine and plant-based feed ingredients, and if they meet all legal, social, and environmental risk categories.
If the ingredient is not recognised by an accepted certification scheme, another pathway must be tried until low risk is achieved; otherwise, the mill cannot source from that supply chain (until low risk is achieved).