Organic Agriculture Vocabs Flashcards
BAFS
Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Standards
BAI
Bureau of Animal Industry
BPI
Bureau of Plant Industry
BPI-PQS
Bureau of Plant Industry- Plant Quarantine Service
DA
Department of Agriculture
DENR
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
FDA
Food and Drug Administration
GMP
Good Manufacturing Practices
HACCP
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points
IFOAM
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements
LGU
Local Government Unit
NCBP
National Committee on Biosafety Philippines
NMIS
National Meat Inspection Service
SPS
Sanitary and Phytosanitary
This Standard specifies the minimum requirements for organic agriculture and is divided into different parts, give all the parts.
Part 1: Conversion to organic agriculture
Part 2: Crop production
Part 3: Livestock
Part 4: Beekeeping
Part 5: Processing
Part 6: Special products
Part 7: Labeling and consumer information
Part 8: Traceability and recordkeeping
Part 9: Requirements for the inclusion of substances for organic production
any product or commodity, raw or processed, that is marketed for human consumption
(excluding water, salt, and additives) or animal feed.
Agricultural product/product of agricultural origin
ruminant (e.g. cattle, buffalo, goat, sheep, and deer) and non-ruminant (e.g. poultry, pigs, ostrich, rabbit, and horse) livestock raised for food purposes.
Animal
Give at least five (5) ruminant Animals
cattle, buffalo, goat, sheep, and deer
Give at least five (5) non-ruminant animals
poultry, pigs, ostrich, rabbit, and horse
practices related to any domestic or domesticated, including bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, equine, poultry, and bees, raised for food or in the production of food. The products of hunting
or fishing of wild animals shall not be considered part of this definition.
Animal production
crop produced by a plant whose entire life cycle is completed within a single growing season.
Annual crop
inputs composed of natural materials capable of being decomposed by bacteria or other biological means and includes compost, green manure, and plant and animal waste.
Biodegradable inputs
variety of life forms and ecosystem types on Earth. Includes genetic diversity (i.e. diversity within species), species diversity (i.e. the number and variety of species), and ecosystem diversity (total number of ecosystem types).
Biodiversity
strategic and integrated approach that encompasses the policy and regulatory frameworks (including instruments and activities) that analyze and manage risks in the sectors of food safety, animal life and health, and plant life and health, including associated
environmental risk.
Biosecurity
selection of plants or animals to produce and/or to further develop desired varieties/strains/breeds.
Breeding
clearly defined and identifiable boundary area bordering an organic production site that is
established to limit the application of, or contact with, prohibited substances from an adjacent area.
Buffer zone
procedure by which an operator or a group of operators receive written and reliably endorsed assurance from a certification body that a clearly identified process has been methodically applied in order to assess that the operator is producing specified products according to specific
requirements or standards.
Certification
intentional or unintentional mixing together or the physical contact between organic products and non-organic products which are unpackaged or permeably packaged, which leads to a loss of integrity of the organic product during production, processing, transportation, storage, or
handling.
Commingling
any product in solid or liquid form, of plant (except by-products from petroleum industries) or animal origin, that has undergone substantial decomposition that can supply available nutrients to plants with a total Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P2O5), and Potassium (K2O) of 2.5 to less than 5 percent. This may be enriched by microbial inoculants and naturally occurring minerals but no chemical or inorganic fertilizer material has been used in the production or added to the finished product to affect the nutrient content.
Compost
contact of organic crops, animals, land, or products with substance that would compromise the organic integrity.
Contamination
any material, production, or processing practice that is not certified organic or organic “inconversion”.
Conventional
time between the start of organic management and certification of the crop or animal production system or site as organic.
Conversion period (transition period )
practice of alternating the species or families of annual and/or biennial crops grown on a specific field in a planned pattern or sequence so as to break weed, pest, and disease cycles and to maintain or improve soil fertility and organic matter content.
Crop rotation
to reduce, by physical or chemical means, the number of potentially harmful microorganisms in the environment to a level that does not compromise food safety or suitability.
Disinfecting
total area of land under control of one farmer or collective of farmers, and including all the farming activities or enterprises.
Farm unit
any substance not normally consumed as a food by itself and not normally used as typical ingredient for the food, whether or not it has nutritive value, the intentional addition of which to food or a technological (including organoleptic) purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packaging, transport, or holding of such food results, or may reasonably expected to result, (directly or indirectly) in it or its by-products becoming a component of or otherwise affecting the characteristics of such foods.
Food additive
organisms made with techniques that alter the molecular or cell biology of an organism by means that are not possible under natural conditions or processes.
Genetically engineered/modified organisms (GEO/GMO’s)
Genetic engineering shall not include
breeding,
conjugation,
fermentation,
hybridization,
in-vitro fertilization,
tissue culture.