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 |