Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[E J <emj@uvic.ca>]

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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