hi all
I noticed this in Seafood.com news today
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS [By Ken Coons] - March 15, 2006 - The gestation of the national organic standards for aquaculture products has taken so long many may no longer be paying attention but, for those who are interested, the proposed standards are completed and the comment period ends April 10.
For a copy of the ''Interim Final Report of the Aquaculture Working Group for the Production and Handling of Organic Aquaculture Products'' see:
http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/TaskForces/AATFInterimFinalReport.pdf
Details on how to submit comments are at:
http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/TaskForces/AATFInterimaFinalReportPubComnt.pdf
Cheers Roy
----- Original Message -----
From: Remi Michalowski
To: Jin Kim ; Barbara Blakistone
Cc: Pamela Tom ; Youm gun woong ; Seafood HACCP Discussion List
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: certification of organic or natural seafood
In Europe, you have to consider:
1- Organic Processing and Products Marketing (with a positive list of chemicals allowed to be used during processing and labelling rules) / Regulation EC No 2092/91
2- Export Procedures (Inspection certificate obligatory...) / Regulation EC No 1788/2001
+ Private labels/certifications (such as EcoCert, and the hypermarkets or consumers' associations) - up to national regulations until they does not break the European legislation
+ Private Code of Practices (Carrefour, Tesco, etc)
As I understand from the new US regulations, we will get, one more time, conflicts between the States and the Feds...
Anyway, I am impatient to see this program running. Maybe it will become a business like the NMFS Program Grade A ...
Thanks for your attention
Kind regards,
Remi Michalowski
Indonesia
----- Original Message -----
From: Jin Kim
To: Barbara Blakistone
Cc: Pamela Tom ; Youm gun woong ; Seafood HACCP Discussion List
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: certification of organic or natural seafood
If farmed aquatic species are certified "organic" in future, transformed products from these species, for example, surimi, could be certified as organic in the US? If imitation crab meat is prepared from this surimi, this finished product can be labelled as "organic" in the US in the future? I wonder how it could be considered currently in Europe? Someone raised a question a few days ago about organic certification on imitation crab meat.
Jin Moon Kim
Professor
School of Food Science and Technology
Southern Yangtze University
170 Huihe Road
Wuxi, Jiangsu
China 214036
jinmoonkim01@gmail.com
86-510-858-75660 (H), 86-510-8340-3818 (O)
On 3/13/06, Barbara Blakistone <bblakistone@nfi.org > wrote:
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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