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AS 6000:2015
[Current]Organic and biodynamic products
Sets out the minimum criteria to be met by operators, before products can be labelled as ‘organic’, ‘biodynamic’ or ‘in-conversion’ or any of these. Those products include unprocessed products from plants, animals, fungi and their processed derivatives.
Published: 19/11/2015
Pages: 61
Table of contents
Cited references
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Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
Foreword
1 Scope and definitions
1.1 Scope
1.1.1
1.1.2
1.1.3
1.1.4
1.1.5
1.1.6
1.1.7
1.1.8
1.1.9
1.1.10
1.2 Referenced documents
1.3 Definitions
2 Production requirements
2.1 Farm
2.1.1 General principles
2.1.2 Requirements
2.1.2.1
2.1.2.2
2.1.2.3
2.1.2.4
2.1.2.5
2.1.2.6
2.1.2.7
2.1.2.8
2.1.2.9
2.1.2.10
2.2 Conversion of land
2.2.1 General principles
2.2.2 Requirements
2.2.2.1
2.2.2.2
2.2.2.3
2.2.2.4
2.2.2.5
2.3 Gene technology
2.3.1 General principles
2.3.2 Requirements
2.3.2.1
2.3.2.2
2.3.2.3
2.3.2.4
2.3.2.5
2.4 Biodiversity and landscape management
2.4.1 General principles
2.4.2 Requirements
2.4.2.1
2.4.2.2
2.4.2.3 Specific requirements for each diversity described under the general principles
2.4.2.3.1 Genetic diversity
2.4.2.3.2 Species diversity
2.4.2.3.3 Ecosystem diversity
2.4.2.3.4 Landscape diversity
2.5 Soil management
2.5.1 General principles
2.5.2 Requirements
2.5.2.1
2.5.2.2
2.5.2.3
2.5.2.4
2.6 Water management
2.6.1 General principles
2.6.2 Requirements
2.6.2.1
2.6.2.2
2.6.2.3
2.6.2.4
2.6.2.5
2.6.2.6
2.6.2.7
2.7 Plant production
2.7.1 General principles
2.7.2 Requirements
2.7.2.1
2.7.2.2
2.7.2.3
2.7.2.4
2.7.2.5
2.7.2.6
2.7.2.7
2.8 Plant protection
2.8.1 General principles
2.8.2 Requirements
2.8.2.1
2.8.2.2
2.8.2.3
2.8.2.4
2.8.2.5
2.9 Harvest of plants from natural environments
2.9.1 General principle
2.9.2 Requirement
2.10 Landless production systems
2.10.1 General principle
2.10.2 Requirements—General
2.10.2.1
2.10.2.2
2.10.2.3
2.10.3 Requirements—Mushroom production
2.10.3.1
2.10.3.2
2.10.3.3
2.10.3.4
2.10.3.5
2.10.3.6
2.10.3.7
2.10.3.8
2.10.4 Requirements—Sprouts and barley/wheat grass production
2.10.4.1
2.10.4.2
2.10.4.3
2.10.4.4
2.10.4.5
2.11 Livestock
2.11.1 General principles
2.11.2 Requirements
2.11.2.1
2.11.2.2
2.11.2.3
2.11.2.4
2.11.2.5
2.12 Conversion of livestock and livestock products
2.12.1 Requirements
2.12.1.1
2.12.1.2
2.12.1.3
2.12.1.4
2.13 Livestock breeds and breeding
2.13.1 General principles
2.13.2 Requirement
2.14 Livestock nutrition
2.14.1 General principle
2.14.2 Requirements
2.14.2.1
2.14.2.2
2.14.2.3
2.14.2.4
2.14.2.5
2.14.2.6
2.14.2.7
2.14.2.8
2.14.2.9
2.14.2.10
2.14.2.11
2.15 Disease prevention and treatment of livestock
2.15.1 General principles
2.15.2 Requirements
2.15.2.1
2.15.2.2
2.15.2.3
2.15.2.4
2.15.2.5
2.15.2.6
2.15.2.7
2.15.2.8
2.15.2.9
2.15.2.10
2.16 Livestock welfare
2.16.1 Requirements
2.16.1.1
2.16.1.2
2.16.1.3
2.16.1.4
2.16.1.5
2.16.1.6
2.17 Livestock housing and range management
2.17.1 General principle
2.17.2 Requirements
2.17.2.1
2.17.2.2
2.17.2.3
2.17.2.4
2.17.2.5
2.17.2.6
2.17.2.7
2.17.2.8
2.17.2.9
2.17.2.10
2.17.2.11
2.17.2.12
2.18 Livestock handling
2.18.1 General principles
2.18.2 Requirements
2.18.2.1
2.18.2.2
2.18.2.3
2.18.2.4
2.18.2.5
2.19 Livestock manure
2.19.1 Requirements
2.19.1.1
2.19.1.2
2.19.1.3
2.20 Bee products
2.20.1 General principles
2.20.2 Requirements
2.20.2.1
2.20.2.2
2.20.2.3
2.20.2.4
2.20.2.5
2.20.2.6
2.20.2.7
2.20.2.8
2.20.2.9
2.20.2.10
2.20.2.11
2.20.2.12
2.20.2.13
2.20.2.14
2.20.2.15
2.20.2.16
2.20.2.17
2.21 Aquaculture
2.21.1 General principles
2.21.2 Requirements
2.21.2.1
2.21.2.2
2.21.2.3
2.21.2.4
2.21.2.5
2.21.2.6
2.21.2.7
2.21.2.8
2.21.2.9
2.21.2.10
2.21.2.11
2.21.2.12
2.21.2.13
2.21.2.14
2.21.2.15
2.22 Biodynamic production
2.22.1 Biodynamic production
2.22.2 General principles
2.22.3 Requirements
2.22.3.1
2.22.3.2
2.22.3.3
2.23 Permitted deviations
2.23.1
2.23.2
2.23.3
3 Preparation and transport
3.1 Preparation and transport
3.1.1 General principle
3.1.2 Requirements
3.1.2.1
3.1.2.2
3.1.2.3
3.1.2.4
3.1.2.5
3.1.2.6
3.1.2.7
3.2 Preparation
3.2.1 General principle
3.2.2 Requirements
3.2.2.1
3.2.2.2
3.2.2.3
3.2.2.4
3.2.2.5
3.2.2.6
3.2.2.7
3.2.2.8
3.2.2.9
3.2.2.10
3.2.2.11
3.2.2.12
3.3 Use of additives and processing aids
3.3.1 General principle
3.3.2 Requirements
3.3.2.1
3.3.2.2
3.3.2.3
3.3.2.4
3.4 Packaging
3.4.1 Requirements
3.4.1.1
3.4.1.2
3.4.1.3
3.4.1.4
3.4.1.5
3.5 Permitted deviation
3.5.1
3.5.2
3.5.3
4 Cosmetics and skincare
4.1 General principles
4.2 Requirements
4.2.1
4.2.2
4.2.3
4.2.4
4.2.5
4.2.6
4.2.7
4.2.8
5 Sales and marketing
5.1 General principles
5.2 Requirements
5.2.1
5.2.2
5.2.3
6 Labelling
6.1 General principle
6.2 General requirements
6.2.1
6.2.2
6.2.3
6.2.4
6.2.5
6.3 Specific requirements
6.3.1 Calculating the percentage of organic or biodynamic ingredient in the final product
6.3.2 Products labelled as ‘100% organic’ or ‘100% biodynamic’
6.3.3 Products labelled as ‘organic or biodynamic’
6.3.4 Products labelled as ‘made with organic or biodynamic ingredients’
6.3.5 Products containing less than 70% organic or biodynamic ingredients
6.3.6 Products labelled as ‘in-conversion’
6.3.6.1
6.3.6.2
6.3.7 Labelling where water is in excess of 70% by volume of a product
7 Documentation and compliance verification
7.1 Compliance verification
7.1.1
7.1.2
7.2 Testing and sampling
7.2.1
7.2.2
7.3 Records
7.3.1
7.3.2
7.3.3
7.3.4
Appendix A
A1 General
A2 Certification process
A3 Further details
Appendix B
B1 General principles
B2 Requirements
B3 Permitted materials for soil fertilizing and conditioning
B4 Permitted materials for plant pest and disease control
B4.1 Plant pest control
B4.2 Plant disease control
B5 Permitted materials for livestock pest and disease control
B5.1 Livestock pest control
B5.2 Livestock disease control
Appendix C
C1 Requirements
C2 Substances permitted as post harvest/storage treatment
Appendix D
D1 Definitions
D2 Substances permitted as food additives, including carriers for all products
D3 Food additives for plant products
D4 Food additives for livestock products
D5 Permitted processing aids for plant products
D6 Permitted processing aids for livestock products
Appendix E
Appendix F
F1 General principles
F2 Farm inputs—Provisions for product evaluation
F3 Additives and processing aids
F3.1 Conditions
F3.2 Necessity
F3.3 Criteria
F3.4 Step-by-step procedure to choose between alternatives
F3.5 What is not permitted
Appendix G
Cited references in this standard
AS MP 100
Procedures for certification of organic and biodynamic products
[Current]
Hygienic production and transportation of meat and meat products for human consumption
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