Concept
Organic Certification
Also known as: certified organic, organic seal, third-party organic certification
The third-party audit-and-seal system that distinguishes producers whose practices have been verified against a public organic standard from producers who simply describe themselves as organic. National schemes vary; the underlying logic — auditor, standard, periodic re-audit, withdrawal on lapse — is universal.
Organic certification is the formal verification chain that backs the word organic with a legal seal. A producer is audited by an accredited certifier against a national or supranational standard; the seal lapses if the producer drops out of compliance.
Why this hub exists
The directory surfaces certifiers as first-class nodes so that any listing carrying a seal can point back to the body that issued it. A reader who wants to trust the claim can audit the chain in one click — listing → certifier → registry → standard.
National schemes the directory tracks
- CNPO — Brazil’s Cadastro Nacional de Produtores Orgânicos, under Lei 10.831/2003. Certifiers: ECOCERT Brasil, OIA Brasil, Genesis, and others.
- USDA NOP (United States), EU Organic (European Union), JAS (Japan), and others — surfaced as listings are ingested.
See also
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- Shares approach with: [[agroecology]]
- Practiced by: [[country-mill-farms-bakery-orchard-cider-mill]] · [[crooked-row-farm-and-market]] · [[gopher-glen-apple-farm]] · [[hearty-hill-farm]] · [[kokopelli-farm-market]] · [[liberty-farms]]
What links here, and how
Inbound connections from across the wiki, grouped by lens and by relationship. These appear automatically — every entity page declares what it links to, and that data populates here on the targets.
Practical
practices
- Country Mill Farms, Bakery, Orchard & Cider Mill organic blueberries, peaches, and apples per their own listing
- Crooked Row Farm and Market certified organic per their own copy
- Gopher Glen Apple Farm organic practice named in the farm's own tagline
- Hearty Hill Farm small-farm USDA Organic operation — meaningful audit-and-documentation discipline at this scale
- Kokopelli Farm Market USDA organic, grown without synthetic inputs
- Liberty Farms NOFA-NY Certified Organic for vegetables, poultry, eggs, pork
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