No U.S.D.A. organic certification is permitted in the U.S. YET, but it will come soon. USDA does permit use of independent certifiers as long as their logo is on the package with a statment of organic certification. CA is an exception as you point out. If the food standardization law passes, CA will not be able to pre-empt federal regulations.
Barbara Blakistone
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-seafood@ucdavis.edu on behalf of Pamela Tom
Sent: Fri 3/10/2006 1:13 PM
To: Youm gun woong
Cc: Seafood HACCP Discussion List
Subject: Re: certification of organic or natural seafood
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Youm gun woong wrote:
> We are the seafood manufacturer(Imitation crab meat).
> Is it possible for claim organic food in imitation
> crab meat?
*** Currently, no organic seafood labeling is permissible in California.
*** Last year, Senate Bill 730 (authored by Jackie Speier) was passed and
added to the California Health and Safety Code:
110827. No aquaculture, fish, or seafood product, including, but not
limited to, farmed and wild caught species, shall be labeled or
represented as "organic" until formal organic certification standards have
been developed and implemented by the United States Department of
Agriculture's National Organic Program or the California Department of
Food and Agriculture.
Source:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=hsc&group=110001-111000&file=110810-110959
> One of our customer request of organic or natural
> seafood certification for our product.
> We also want to develop organic seafood product.
>
> How can we get a organic certification?
*** Organic certification is not done at the processing or manufacturing
level.
> Is there anyone familiar with organic seafood
> certification procedure?
> Let me know the step for that.
*** The National Organic Program of the US Department of Agriculture is in
the process of trying to develop organic standards for aquacultured
products. The "Interim Final Report of the Aquaculture Working Group for
the Production and Handling of Organic Aquaculture Products (Winter 2006)"
is available at:
http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/TaskForces/AATFInterimFinalReport.pdf
*** Public comments are due by April 10, 2006. Details on submitting
comments are at:
http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/TaskForces/AATFInterimaFinalReportPubComnt.pdf
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:44:54 -0900
From: Greg Peters <Petersg@arctic.net>
To: woongku@yahoo.com
Cc: seafood@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re: certification of organic or natural seafood
It is my understanding that a wild caught fish can not be labelled as
organic. You can get potentially get a MSC certification of sustainable
fishery depending on the species of fish and the supplier.
Greg Peters
Alyeska Seafoods, Inc.
*** Information regarding the Marine Stewardship Council (an independent
non-profit organization that promotes responsible fishing practices) has a
web site in English, French, Spanish, German and Swedish at:
http://www.msc.org/
Regards,
Pamela Tom
University of California
Sea Grant Extension Program
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