Common control provisions on the analytical strategy to be implemented for the controls for organic food producers
The National Institute of Origin and Quality (INAO) is the public institution entrusted by the State with the supervision of the control system for all official signs of quality and origin.
Common Control Provisions (CCP) define the control arrangements applicable to official signs by control bodies and defence and management bodies. These provisions are supplemented, for each specification, by control provisions specific to that specification.
Thus, the inspection plan for a product specification under a quality and origin identification sign is composed of :
- Common inspection provisions drawn up by the INAO, which may be supplemented by inspection provisions common to the sectors;
- Specific inspection provisions laid down by the inspection body.
By means of a management decision, INAO has put online common control provisions relating to the analytical strategy to be implemented in the context of the control of organic production operators.
These provisions are addressed to the certification bodies approved by the INAO and are applicable from 1 January 2010.
In the framework of the control of organic production operators, each certification body must apply an analytical strategy to determine whether products or production techniques not authorised by the organic farming rules are used by the operators, or to detect any possible contamination by products not authorised in organic farming.
The analyses (search for components, measurement of the presence of ingredients or certain characteristic parameters of the product, etc.) must be carried out by laboratories chosen by the inspection body from a list of structures authorised by the INAO.
Phytocontrol is on the list of analysis laboratories authorised by INAO and is able to offer you analyses under COFRAC accreditation within the framework of organic food production controls.
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