Webinars

This 100-level webinar training course will cover the Canadian Organic Regime (COR) as it pertains to processing operations. 

Fraud has always been an issue for organic, but the request that inspectors talk about fraud during the inspection is new since Strengthening Organic Enforcement (published Jan. 19, 2023. Fully implemented March 19, 2024).

At the same time, good inspections require cooperation between operators and inspectors. Suspicion and trust tend to be mutually exclusive. Since SOE, inspectors have to actively work to create the trust it takes to cooperate. Interpersonal skills are often dismissed as personality traits; yet, there are principles that can be learned.

The webinar is a 100-level course that will prepare participants to verify compliance with the NOP Processing Standards.

The webinar is a 100-level course will prepare participants to verify compliance with the NOP Crop Standards. 

This advanced training will focus on specific OCPs for these kinds of inspections, well as the terminology, key players and other factors at play when product is moved on bulk ships and/or moved through transloading facilities involving barges, trucks or rail cars. We will discuss the steps necessary to perform a UAI at a port facility. A demonstrated audit trail exercise will also involve realistic examples, drawn from recent work the members of the OIC have been performing in this sector over the last six years.

This webinar is a 200-level course to gain understanding how the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) evaluates input materials.

The webinar is a 100-level course will prepare participants to verify compliance with the NOP Livestock Standards. 

This training analyses the regulations and the Technical Assistance instruction 2614 in the NOP Program Handbook, as well as the ISO requirements for consulting. It contains interactive questions, three concepts that prevent technical assistance, as well as an analysis that helps debunk each one of them.

This training addresses certifiers as well as inspectors. Certifiers can receive noncompliances for providing information from auditors, but they might be ill-equipped to have the conversation/ to rebut.