{"id":32266,"date":"2018-10-29T13:19:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T07:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32266"},"modified":"2018-10-29T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T07:49:37","slug":"come-july-label-mandatory-for-food-certified-as-organic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/come-july-label-mandatory-for-food-certified-as-organic\/","title":{"rendered":"Come july label mandatory for food certified as \u2018organic\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/label-mandatory-for-food-certified-as-organic-from-july\/article22378459.ece\"><strong>Come july label mandatory for food certified as \u2018organic\u2019<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had issued regulations that required food companies selling organic produce to get certified with one of the two authorities \u2014 National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) or the Participatory Guarantee System for India (PGS-India). Companies could also get a voluntary logo from the FSSAI that marked its produce as \u2018organic.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From July 2018, it would be illegal to sell organic\u00a0food\u00a0that was not appropriately labelled so<\/p>\n<p><strong>FSSAI\u2019s notification<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Labelling on the package of organic food shall convey full and accurate information on the organic status of the product. Such product may carry a certification or quality assurance mark of one of the systems mentioned\u2026 in addition to the Food Safety and Standard Authority of India\u2019s organic logo,\u201d said a FSSAI notification on January 2 and published in the Gazette<\/li>\n<li>These rules were finalised after almost a year of being sent out as a draft for public comments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PGS vs NPOP<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For nearly two decades now, organic farming certification had been done through a process of third party certification under the NPOP<\/li>\n<li>It was run by the <strong>Ministry of Commerce<\/strong> and was used for certifying general exports. Nearly 24 agencies were authorised by the NPOP to verify farms, storages and processing units and successful ones got a special \u2018<strong>India Organic\u2019<\/strong> logo<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>PGS-India programme<\/strong>, in contrast, had been around for only two years and \u2014 unlike the top-down approach of the NPOP \u2014 involves a peer-review approach. Here, farmers played a role in certifying whether the farms in their vicinity adhered to organic-cultivation practices. This programme was implemented by the <strong>Ministry of Agriculture through the National Centre of Organic Farming<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come july label mandatory for food certified as \u2018organic\u2019\u00a0 Context The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had issued regulations that required food companies selling organic produce to get certified with one of the two authorities \u2014 National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) or the Participatory Guarantee System for India (PGS-India). 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