Details on our Organic Certificates
We source fine ingredients from every confine of the planet, offering it’s very best, be it Oats (Organic Steel Cut Oats, Organic Oat Bran, Organic Quick Oats, or Organic Thick Rolled Oats) and Wheat Flour (Organic Unbleached White Flour or Organic Whole Wheat Flour) from Finland, Eucalyptus Honey and Non-Centrifugal Raw Sugar from Ecuador, and Peanuts from the Andean watersheds of South America.
This broad international sourcing of great organic ingredients faces a complex set of regulations governing trade between the U.S. the European Union, and other countries from the rest of the world. Thus, the limits in the usage of USDA and EU organic logos, governing trade between those countries, ruling out third countries.
For example, Organic Unbleached Flour from Finland may use the claim “Organic” in its principal display panel and the EU organic logo, if exported directly from Finland to the U.S. On the other hand, if that product were to be exported to Ecuador to be processed and packed (as in our case), the EU, USDA rules dictate we may not use the claim and logos if it is further exported to the U.S.
Not to leave us in the dark, the USDA made a valuable proviso for this tangled web of rules, which we quote “You may only, on the information panel, identify the certified organic ingredients as organic and the percentage of organic ingredients.” (See link https://www.ams.usda.gov/rules-regulations/organic/labeling#4%20labels )
The bottom-line on organic logo use
If your product is organic, but not covered by U.S. and EU direct trade, you will see it identified in the ingredient panel as organic, even if we do not use the logo.
You can see the current organic certificates accrediting our organic products, as certified by the USDA – USDA Organic Certificate 2024 and the European Union (EU) European Organic Certificate 2024
As you become acquainted with our 60 plus years of this American family’s history, you will get to see, and know details about our beautiful manufacturing plant in Ecuador, South America (more about this exceptional factory in our next blog).
