Hall, New York, USA
March 19, 2015

SEEDWAY has received United States Department of Agriculture GAP/GHP certification at its vegetable seed locations in Elizabethtown, PA, Pelham, GA and Lakeland, FL. This certification encompasses all SEEDWAY vegetable seed handling facilities, making it one of the few seed suppliers with this designation.

The USDA Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) Good Handling Practices (GHP) program is intended to assess a participant’s efforts to minimize the risk of contamination of fresh vegetables, nuts and miscellaneous commodities by microbial pathogens based on the US Food and Drug Administration’s “Guide to Minimize Microbial Food Safety Hazards for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables,” and generally recognized good agricultural practices.

SEEDWAY offers one of the most comprehensive vegetable seed product lines in the industry, serving growers from locations in PA, GA and FL with product research trials in Hershey, PA and Plant City, FL.

Headquartered in Hall, NY, SEEDWAY, LLC operates nine locations in five states from Vermont to Florida. A full-line seed company, marketing farm and turf seed in fourteen Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and vegetable seed from the US Rocky Mountains to the east coast and the southern provinces of Canada, SEEDWAY, LLC is a subsidiary of GROWMARK, Inc., Bloomington, IL. For more information visit www.seedway.com.

Website: http://www.seedway.com

Published: March 19, 2015