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  • From: E J <emj@uvic.ca>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Former inspector lifts lid on the murky world of organic food
  • Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:41:12 -0700

In Canada I know of people who have been decertified. If certification is what makes your product worth more then losing the farm is a real possibility. High stakes.

Certifying bodies have confidentiality agreements, might be why you don't hear of farms losing status more often.

In March 2011 Two Organic Certification Agencies Lost Their Accreditation
http://indianapublicmedia.org/eartheats/organic-certification-agencies-lose-accreditation/

Testing may seem like an easy way to confirm but problems would be: what to test for (every known ag chemical - if you test for less than every single one it would be hard to claim 100% certainty), how often to test, what to test (every field, every crop, every harvest, every animal, every surface in processing? who would pay?). And still no assurance non-allowed substances aren't used the second the inspector leaves.

Certified farms are subject to unannounced, random inspections.


On 25/06/11 9:04 PM, Tradingpost wrote:
well, nobody gets decertified here& certainly nobody would ever lose their
farm no matter what

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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  • Re: [Livingontheland] Former inspector lifts lid on the murky world of organic food, E J, 06/26/2011

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