The logo BIOLOGICO DI FATTORIA (FARM ORGANIC) is a certification logo for packaged food products “from organic farming” whose production cycles are completed within a single farm.
The absence of intermediate passages through different processing units involved in the production chain minimizes handling of the product itself, llessens processing and packaging time given the absence of intermediate transportation and a consequent higher nutritional quality and freshness of processed raw materials.
This, among all the others, is the ICEA certification which is more oriented toward the products and consumers of short production chains.
During the first launch and promotion phase (minimum of one year) ICEA offers this certification for free to all companies already controlled under EC Reg. 2092/91.
The logo and the certified companies will be the subject of communication campaigns during exhibitions and other events organized by ICEA.
Basic requirements:
Production and processing of the product must necessarily take place within the same farm. Only secondary ingredients that are not available in the region (for example sugarcane, cocoa, etc.) and strictly needed additives are allowed to be purchased.
Livestock farms must guarantee a self-sufficiency feeding level (70% of the dry matter for polygastric and 50% for monogastrics), higher than the legal minimum (30%). Only slaughtering can take place in external structures if the farm controls the slaughtering phase and on the condition that the slaughter house is located in the same Province of the farm or in a neighboring one.
Formats to require the “Farm Organic” certification:
Info:
Alessandro Pulga
ICEA Technical Director
Strada Maggiore 29
40125 Bologna (Bo) Italy
tel. + 39 051 272986 fax +39 051 232011
e.mail
dir@icea.info mobile: + 39 348 8059336