Custom Clothes: Organic Certification

Sunday 26 August 2012

Organic Certification

Organic certification is a certification process for producers of organic food and other organic agricultural products. In general, any business directly involved in food production can be certified, including seed suppliers, farmers, [food] processors,retailers and restaurants.Requirements vary from country to country, and generally involve a set of production standards for growing, storage, processing, packaging and shipping that include:

no human sewage sludge fertilizer used in cultivation of plants or feed of animals

avoidance of synthetic chemical inputs not on the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances (e.g. fertilizer, pesticides, antibiotics, food additives, etc.),genetically modified organisms, irradiation, and the use of biosolids;use of farmland that has been free from prohibited synthetic chemicals for a number of years (often, three or more);keeping detailed written production and sales records (audit trail);

maintaining strict physical separation of organic products from non-certified products;

undergoing periodic on-site inspections.Ecocert is committed to establish trust and faith between client and consumers of organic products. Ecocert ensures that operators follow ecologically sound production and processing methods in accordance with the set standards. Constant supervision of efficiency and impartiality benchmarks the authenticity of Ecocert certification.