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Are you new to organic?

GlobalSTD professional can take the confusion and anxiety from your shoulders. 

Our basic organic consulting package will thoroughly Evaluate your current operation through onsite visits and phone consultations. 

We will Develop a complete Organic System Plan that brings your operation into organic compliance with the least disruption to your current practices. 

During the evaluation and development phases our organic consultants will Train your organic contact on the USDA National Organic Program regulations and Regulation (EU) 2018/848  as they affect your operation.

Our services includes:

• Gap Assessment – onsite evaluation of the gaps between your current practices and organic compliance

• Develop Organic System Plan

• Prepare and submit application

• New product formula and label reviews

• Review existing procedures and update to include organic compliance

• Create control systems to document compliance

• Design individualized forms

• Train management team and employees to Organic requirements

• Respond to certifier correspondence

We also offer certified organic companies a variety of services that help them maintain their organic compliance and quickly move new organic products through the certification process. 

The Organic Systems Plan is a living document that can and should be updated on a regular basis to ensure ongoing compliance. Our organic consultants will help you analyze process changes and communicate those changes to your accredited certification agency.

• Monitor as required by the specified standards

• Assess Organic System Plan for continued accuracy and implementation

• Review existing formulas and ingredient verification

• Update Organic System Plan and forms on an on-going basis

• Perform internal third-party audit with written report

• Provide employee training

• Attend the annual organic inspection

• Respond to certifier correspondence

• Notification of regulatory updates

• Provide Phone support

Adverse Actions

From time to time organic companies will find themselves in conflict with their organic certifier or the USDA NOP. These conflicts if not adequately addressed can lead to Adverse Actions. 

Adverse Actions are time sensitive with hard deadlines. Adverse Actions affect a company’s ability to sell products as organic. A certified operation has the right to request mediation or appeal the adverse action.

Examples of adverse actions that may request mediation or appeal include: proposed suspension of certification, proposed revocation of certification, denial of certification, combined notice of noncompliance and proposed suspension or revocation, cease and desist notice, denial of reinstatement.

GlobalSTD will mediate between the certifier, state organic program, EU and/or USDA and help you through the entire process from noncompliance response, appeal, mediation, and reinstatement. 

Our organic consultants will respond to your certifier in a manner that shows compliance can be achieved and maintained.

Our organic consultants will attend the mediation as your advocate and help you negotiate terms to maintain your organic certification. We will help prepare all information required for re-instatement of organic certification and work with the certifier and the USDA through the entire re-instatement process. 

When needed, we can work with several qualified attorneys that specialize in organic adverse action appeals.

We can assist you with

• Non-compliance

• Appeals

• Mediation

• Suspension

• Revocation

• Re-instatement

Organic Input Materials Verification 

The National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances identifies substances that may or may not be used in organic crop production, livestock production, and handling. All non-organic materials used in organic production and handling must be approved prior to use in organic.

The certifier is responsible for determining if an input material meets the requirements of the National Organic Program. 

Additionally, there are three organizations that review products and publish lists of products allowed for organic production: Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI), Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) Organic Food Program, and California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Organic Input Material Program. These organizations obtain information about all the inert and active ingredients in a product formulation, review them, and assess whether the product is allowed.

• Our experts will help your company gather and organize the information needed to submit the organic input materials for OMRI, CDFA, & WSDA Registration.

• Work directly with your company and your vendors to obtain the information required for material registration, review all labels for organic compliance and prepare and submit the application(s).