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Lau Ackerman - Inspector

California UNITED STATES

Home: 530.518.4920

Work: 530.518.4920

Email: ackermanorganic@gmail.com

Languages: English (Fluent) Spanish (Conversational)

Training

IOIA

Crop (2018) , NOP Crop Standards (2018) , Process (2019) , NOP Processing Standards (2019) , In/Out & Traceability - Processing - 200 (2020) , Remote Inspections SP200 (2020)

Organizations Inspected For

CCOF, QAI, ISC/A-Bee/WFCFO

Inspection Experience

Farm
Citrus Field Crops/row crops Fresh Vegetables Greenhouse Herbs Nuts Mushrooms Rice Small fruits Sprouts Tree fruits Vegetables
Process
Baking Beer Bottling Canning Cereals Chocolate Coffee Cooking Distillation Extruding Fermentation Flaking Flours Fresh packing Freezing Grain cleaning Hulling Juicing Milling Multi-ingredient Oil extraction Pasta Pasteurization Sauces Spices Vitamins/supplements Wine Warehousing Dairy Products Personal Body Care Products

Experience

Academic

BS Agronomy, minor in Biology, 1993, California State University, Chico, CA

Personal

Prior work as farmer, farm manager, research technician, part-time college lecturer. Over the years, I picked up sustainable and organic production from mentors and began incorporating the practices into farming and eventually only farmed OG.