Development of a Global Assurance Program for the Livestock Export Industry

Summary

The function of the Livestock Global Assurance Program (LGAP) Consultative Committee is to review and provide advice on matters that effect or arise during the global assurance project development.

Industry initiated foundation research in 2012 into the role QA and risk assessment may have in assisting exporters demonstrate compliance with ESCAS. A number of recommendations stemmed from this research, primarily: That a QA program complemented by a risk assessment component be developed to support the live export industry in aspiring to best practice and achieving ESCAS compliance.

Following consultation, the industry-accepted the recommendations and a development project funded through the LEP was initiated in 2014. This Project was managed by Schuster Consulting Group utilising a team of subject matter experts operating under the guidance of an Industry-Government Consultative Committee.

A fully implementable conformity assessment and certification Program has been developed and successfully trialed through this Project. In February 2015, this Program became known as the Livestock Global Assurance Program, or LGAP.