January/
February 2011
Volume 8
Number 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS 24 Cover Protecting the Integrity of Organic: The National Organic Program’s Age of Enforcement (and Clarification) By Soo Kim, including interviews with NOP Deputy Administrator Miles McEvoy
30
Special Feature
Preventing Fraud: Discussing the Private Sector’s Role
By Jon Fogarty
32 Dialogue
Looking Back on More Than 20 Years of
Growing the Organic Farming Movement
An Interview with Bob Scowcroft, Founding Executive
Director of the Organic Farming Research Foundation
36
Enterprise
Guayaki Yerba Mate:
Stimulating Mind, Body—
and Economic and Environmental Vitality
By Kat Schuett
COLUMNS
10 Processing
Supply Chain Security and Your Organic Business
By Holly Givens
14 Ingredients
Formulating for the “Free-From” Category:
Allergen-Free and Gluten Free Alternatives
By Nancy Gregory
20 Managing
Understanding the 2012 Sunset Review:
What You Need to Know to Be Prepared
By Jennifer Rose and Tom Hutcheson
DEPARTMENTS
6 Signature
8 Details
46 Marketplace
47 Advertisers Index
EDITORIAL
ADVISORY BOARD
Bob Anderson
President
Sustainable Strategies
Bena Burda
President
Maggie’s Functional Organics
Christine Bushway
Executive Director
Organic Trade Association
Will Daniels
VP of Quality, Food Safety
& Organic Integrity
Earthbound Farm
Kim Burton Dietz
Human Resource & Regulatory
Compliance Manager
Smucker Quality Beverages
Harvey Hartman
Chairman and CEO
Hartman Group
Nancy Hirshberg
VP of Natural Resources
Stonyfield Farm
Tim Kapsner
Senior Chemist
Aveda
Grace Marroquin
President
Marroquin Organic International
Joe Montecalvo, Ph.D.
Professor, Food Science
California Polytechnic
State University
Mary C. Mulry, Ph.D.
Food Wise, Inc.
Kevin O’Rell
Sr. VP, Operations: R&D
Healthy Food Holdings
Howard-Yana Shapiro
VP of Agriculture & Global
Director of External Research
Seeds of Change/Mars Inc.
Arran Stephens
President
Nature’s Path
Jessica Walden
Technical Specialist
QAI
Bill Wolf
President
Wolf, DiMatteo + Associates
