Speaking at Fenagri, in Petrolina, north east Brazil, André Velloso (pictured right), Primuslab.com's partner of Latin American operations, said the company is the only operator able to carry out auditing and certification for assurance schemes in each of the world's leading trading blocs – Europe, the US and Asia.

However, he said: 'We could offer dual certification, but to carry out one audit process for all three markets would be extremely difficult at the moment, as the requirements of each are so different.

'We have been working with US Gap-type projects for more than 15 years, but Eurep Gap is relatively new and has an entirely different perspective and focus.'