Processing Certification Packet

Processing: Operations which perform any type of manufacturing, including: cooking, baking, heating, drying, mixing, grinding, churning, separating, extracting, cutting, fermenting, slaughtering, eviscerating, preserving, dehydrating, freezing, or otherwise manufacturing, including packaging, canning, jarring, or otherwise enclosing in a container, other than normal post harvest packing of crops performed by a producer.

Basic Application (Required)

  1. OCIA Processing Organic System Plan (OSP)
  2. OCIA Processing Organic System Plan Update  - for renewal applications only
  3. Organic Product Ingredients
  4. Operator Licensing Agreement  (OLA)
  5. Invoice for Certification Fee

BioSuisse Application

Please note: These documents are also available from BIO SUISSE’s website .

  1. Regulations on Implementation of BioSuisse Standards
  2. BioSuisse Checklist for Processing and Trade (available as a PDF file  or as a MS Word document)

JAS Application

  1. JAS Certification - OCIA Japan Foreign Production Process Manager Application For PROCESSORS
  2. JAS Certification Foreign Repacker Application
  3. JAS Certification Renewal Application
  4. JAS Certification Agreement
  5. JAS Grading Record
  6. Annual JAS Grading Report

Supplemental Forms and Information

  1. Bill of Lading  (BOL)
  2. Transaction Certificate Guidelines
  3. Transaction Certificate Authorization (TCA)  form
  4. Request for Transaction Certificate Correction
  5. Complaints Procedure
  6. OCIA Appeals Process Procedure
  7. Using the OCIA Seal
  8. Using the NOP (USDA) Seal
  9. Certified Operator Complaint Log
  10. Organic Product Ingredients
  11. Guidance on Implementing an Audit Trail-Processors
  12. GMO Protection Guidelines
  13. Non-GMO Affidavit
  14. Off-Farm Transportation Cleaning Affidavit
  15. Application for Document Review
  16. Certificate Acceptance, Certificate Transference, and Document Review Procedure
  17. Notification of Change of Key Information Form