Good Agricultural Practices for Aquaponics

The Aquaponics Association has developed a set of provisional Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) for aquaponics, a first step in enabling future food safety audits for large aquaponics operations.

Recommendations include:

• Removing solid fish waste from the system especially when producing leafy greens
• Preventing system water from touching the edible parts of the plants.
• Avoid using media beds as a place to mineralize solids

Click to view the online version of the Provisional GAPs.

To learn more or to comment, visit the Aquaponics Association website.

Here are a few more good references:

• CanadaGAP - food safety program for companies that handle fruits and vegetables
• NSF International - Independent accredited certification
• Aquaponics Food Safety Process Control Example