| Acronym | Name |
|---|
| AAFC | Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada |
| AB | Accreditation Board |
| ACAAF | Advancing Canadian Agriculture & Agri-Food Program |
| ACB | Accredited Certification Body |
| ACORN | Atlantic Canada Organic Regional Network |
| BCAC | British Columbia Agriculture Council |
| BCARA | British Columbia Association for Regenerative Agriculture |
| BCCOP | British Columbia Certified Organic Program |
| BCMA | British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture |
| BMP | Best Management Practices |
| BOPA | Boundary Organic Producers Association |
| CAB | Conformity Assessment Body (aka CB) |
| CAEQ | Committee on Accredition for Evaluation of Quality |
| CAPA | Canadian Agricultural Products Act |
| CARTV | Le Conseil des appellations réservées et des termes valorisants (Quebec Accreditation) |
| CB | Certification Body |
| CC | Certification Committee |
| CBSA | Canadian Border Services Agency |
| CCME | Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment |
| CEN | Canadian Environment Network |
| CFIA | Canadian Food Inspection Agency |
| CGSB | Canadian General Standards Board |
| COA | Committee for Organic Agriculture (prev. CGSB's Technical Committee) |
| COABC | Certified Organic Associations of British Columbia |
| COG | Canadian Organic Growers |
| COO | Canada Organic Office |
| COR | Canada Organic Regime |
| CORP | Canadian Organic Retailing Practices |
| COS | Canadian Organic Standards |
| COST | Canadian Organic Standards Training |
| CSA | Community Supported Agriculture / Community Shared Agriculture |
| CSI | Centre for Systems Integration |
| CVB | Conformity Verification Body (aka Accreditation Body) |
| CWB | Canadian Wheat Board |
| DFAIT | Department of Foreign Affairs & International Trade |
| DMI | Dry Matter Intake |
| EEC / EU | European Economic Community / European Union |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization |
| FVO | Farm Verified Organic (North Dakota aka ICS) |
| FVOPA | Fraser Valley Organic Producers Association (CB) |
| GE / GMO | Genetic Engineering / Genetically Modified Organism |
| GMO | Genetically-Modified Organism |
| GO | Going Organic (AB umbrella group) |
| GOA | Global Organic Alliance |
| GPMS | General Principles & Management Standards |
| HACCP | Hazards Analysis & Critical Control Points |
| IAF | International Accreditation Forum |
| IAFBC | Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC |
| ICS | International Certification Services (aka FVO) |
| IFOAM | International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements |
| IOAS | International Organic Accreditation Service |
| IOIA | International Organic Inspectors Association |
| IOPA | Islands Organic Producers Association |
| ISEAL | International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| KOGS | Kootenay Organic Growers Association |
| LEOGA | Living Earth Organic Producers Association |
| MCL | Maximum Contaminant Levels |
| MOA | Manitoba Organic Alliance |
| MRL | Maximum Residue Limits |
| NOAI | Non-Organic Agricultural Ingredients |
| NOOA | North Okanagan Organic Association |
| NOP | National Organic Program (of the USDA) |
| NOSB | National Organic Standards' Board (under USDA) |
| NSF | National Sanitation Foundation |
| OA | Organic Alberta |
| OACC | Ontario Agriculture Centre of Canada |
| OCIA | Organic Crop Improvement Association (International) |
| OCO | Organic Council of Ontario |
| OCP | Organic Control Point |
| OC/PRO | OCPP / Pro-Cert Canada |
| OCQV | Québec Vrai |
| OFC | Organic Federation of Canada |
| OFCM | Organic Food Council of Manitoba |
| OFPA | Organic Food Production Act |
| OGD | Other Governmental Departments |
| OMRI | Organic Materials Review Institute |
| OPAM | Organic Producers' Association of Manitoba |
| OPR | Organic Products Regulation |
| OSMDI | Organic Sector Market Development Initiative (eg. CWB) |
| OSP | Organic System Plan (aka Organic Plan) |
| OTA | Organic Trade Association |
| OTCO | Oregon Tilth Certified Organic |
| OVCRT | Organic Value Chain Roundtable |
| PACS | Pacific Agricultural Certification Society |
| PGS | Participatory Guarantee Systems |
| PMRA | Pest Management Regulatory Agency |
| PSL | Permitted Substances List |
| PWGSC | Public Works and Government Services Canada |
| QA | Quality Assurance |
| QAI | Quality Assurance International |
| QC | Quality Control |
| QMI | Quality Management Institute's QMI Organic Inc. |
| QM/QMS | Manual Quality Management Systems Manual |
| SAA | Sustainable Agriculture Association |
| SCC | Standards Council of Canada |
| SIC | Standards Interpretation Committee (of the COO) |
| SOD | Saskatchewan Organic Directorate |
| SOOPA | Similkameen Okanagan Organic Producers Association |
| SOP | Standard Operating Procedure |
| STOPA | Shuswap Thompson Organic Producers Association |
| UREC | Unavoidable Residual Environmental Contamination |
| USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
| VO | Verification Officers (CB Inspectors) |
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| Certification process jargon |
| CA | Corrective Action |
| D | Deficiency |
| MI | Missing information |
| OCP | Organic Compliance Plan |
| OSP | Organic Systems Plan |
| NC | Non conformity |
| USCOEA | US Can Organic Equivalency Agreement |
