Glyphosate Residue Free

Glyphosate Residue Free certification has been created for:

• Single ingredients from suppliers
• Single-ingredient food products (products sold to consumers)
• Multi-ingredient food products (products sold to consumers)

If you are food manufacturer and all of your ingredient suppliers are certified Glyphosate Residue Free you can automatically receive Glyphosate Residue Free certification without the product testing steps listed below. You will only have to sign the certification agreement and pay the annual certification fee.

If your ingredient suppliers are not certified Glyphosate Residue Free you need to follow our full certification process for your product(s) – see below:

1. You Apply for Certification using our Registration Form – Provide basic information of your company and product (including official ingredients list or program details).
2. We put you in touch with a third-party ISO 17025 accredited laboratory to test your product(s) confidentially for glyphosate residues. You can also select a laboratory for testing your product/s, as long as they meet our laboratory standards (which can be viewed in our FAQs section above).
3. You send your product to be tested by the third-party ISO 17025 accredited laboratory using liquid chromatography or gas chromatography methods. The estimated costs for this are $200 per product.
4. The laboratory prepares a confidential report on the Glyphosate levels in your product.
5. You send us testing results within 5 business days of receiving them from the laboratory – We confidentially evaluate them in order to determine compliance with our Standard.
6. We send you our Certification Decision.
7. If your certification is accepted we send you the certification agreement to fill in and sign. You pay us $1499 in total for the certification upon signing the agreement (this annual price is a flat rate fee and covers certification for as many products as you wish to certify). If you own multiple brands each brand requires a separate certification.
8. During the year we will send you product testing requests at least twice more. In total third-party laboratory testing will cost an estimated $600 for each of your products per year, however if you have many products we will work with you to format a cost-effective testing protocol.
9. All certified products are included in The Detox Project certified product database.
10. Maintaining Certification: Certificates are valid for one year – Annual testing is required to maintain your certification (minimum 2 times per year + spot checks). If there are less than 3 lots produced of a specific product per year then only one sample from each lot will have to be tested.

Introduction

The Glyphosate Residue Free Certification Program (the “Program”) has been established to:

• Reduce Consumers’ risk of exposure to glyphosate residues in foods they consume;
• Educate Producers about the glyphosate residue profile of their products;
• Enable Producers to fine-tune production and supply chain strategies to minimize reliance on
  glyphosate-based herbicides
• Encourage farmers to reduce their reliance on glyphosate-based herbicides

Purpose of the Standard

The Standard:

• Describes the Certification framework and testing requirements applicable to products certified as
  Glyphosate Residue Free (“Certified Products”); and
• Provides guidance for public claims made in connection with Certified Products.

Intended Users of the Standard

The Standard is intended to be used by ingredient suppliers and food manufacturers interested in having products certified under the Program, as well as farmers and value chain handlers and purchasers of Certified Products. Handlers include distributors, wholesalers, importers, and food processors and manufacturers.

Purchasers of Certified Products include food manufacturers, grocers, restaurants, consumers and institutional buyers.

Voluntary Standard

This Standard is voluntary and nonbinding. It is not intended to replace the legal or regulatory requirements of any country in which agricultural products or food products are produced, handled, or sold.

The Company is not required to utilize the Glyphosate Residue Free Certification Seal on Certified Products.

Scope

This Standard applies to food products and ingredients submitted for assessment to determine whether they can be certified as Glyphosate Residue Free.

Program Applicant Submissions

As a prerequisite for assessment, the Company was required to submit a Program Application Form and supporting documents alongside the third-party laboratory results for glyphosate testing of product samples tested for Certification purposes. Required supporting documents may include, but are not limited to, a list of ingredients.

Conformance Requirements for Certified Products

In order for a food product to be certified Glyphosate Residue Free:

A representative sample of an identified product or ingredient must be collected and sent by the Company to the agreed third-party laboratory for analysis in accordance with the Process detailed in Appendix 1 and increasing from that number depending on the number of product lots produced.

• The sample must be laboratory tested by a qualified third-party laboratory (if accepted) in accordance with the Process testing requirements; and
• Test results must show that the product contains no detected glyphosate residue down to the limits of detection (LOD) based on government-accepted limit-of-detection protocols for food products – usually 0.01 parts per million (ppm) and always below the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs).
• Glyphosate Residue Free Certification testing is based on government-accepted limit-of-detection protocols for food products.

Duration of Certification

Once a product has been successfully Certified, the Certification shall remain in effect for one year from the Effective Date of this Agreement, unless it is suspended in accordance with the provision ‘Review, Suspension’ below or if the Agreement is terminated.

As a quality control measure, Certified Products may be spot retested at any time. The results of spot retests will remain confidential and will only be released to the Company.

Revocation or Suspension.

A Certification may be placed under review or suspended if Glyphosate residues are found at any point during or following the Certification Process that exceed the requirements for Certification, until such time that conformance is reestablished pursuant to the Protocol for Performance in Appendix 4.

A breach of any of the following is not capable of being cured by the Company and the Service Provider will have the right, at its discretion, to immediately terminate this Agreement upon notice to the Company: a) Noncompliance with the Conformance Requirements for Certified Products, b) noncompliance with the Product Integrity and Traceability requirements, and 3) the unauthorized use of the Trademark if the Company is under review or suspended.

Product Integrity and Traceability

The Producer of a Certified Product is required to:

• Demonstrate the ability to recall Glyphosate Residue Free certified products if glyphosate residues are found after certification, if compliance is not reestablished as per the Protocol for Conformance Infringements; and
• Demonstrate the ability to prevent comingling and contamination of Certified Products with non-certified products.

Use of Glyphosate Residue Free Certification Seal

The Company is permitted to use the Glyphosate Residue Free Certification seal (the “Seal”) in connection with the Certified Product, either directly on product labels, signage and other point-of sale materials, or indirectly in websites, brochures, and other printed and online collateral.

If the Glyphosate Residue Free Certified Product is sold in a country or territory that requires a labeling language other than English, the words “This product is certified Glyphosate Residue Free” should be translated accordingly and placed on the packaging with the English Glyphosate Residue Free Seal, or a Seal in a language authorized in writing by the Service Provider can be used.