IOS – Zootecnia (Animal husbandry)

IOS – Zootecnia (Animal husbandry)

Italian Organic Standard (IOS) – Animal Husbandry

IOS certifies cheeses and other dairy products with the aim of promoting and enhancing farms that ensure compliance with more restrictive organic standards and consistent with the principles of organic farming.


What it is certified

The Animal Husbandry IOS specification sets out criteria for the assessment and enhancement of more stringent requirements than the mandatory rules required by the existing organic production legislation (Regulation (EC) No. 834/07 and (EC) No. 889/08). The specification also provides for compliance with basic corporate responsibility requirements.

Why certify

Adhering to the voluntary IOS certification specification allows organic farmers and companies that process the relevant products to enhance compliance with organic production ethics and promote their products in the more developed markets.
Operators already certified by ICEA for other regulated organic production certification schemes (Regulation (EC) No. 834/07, NOP, JAS, etc.) can have access to IOS certification.
The Swedish organisation KRAV has recognised the equivalence of ICEA IOS animal husbandry certification for issuing the dairy mark: KRAV extra requirements.

How to certify

The certification process is divided into four main phases:

  1. Initial assessment of the products and production process. The applicant company submits a specific application for certification and provides all the documentation required by ICEA to assess compliance with the more stringent requirements than the minimum legal requirements (Regulation (EC) No. 889/08). Processors and distributors interested in certification will have to check the production chain up to the farms from which the raw material used comes.
  2. Inspections at the breeding farms to verify compliance with minimum and improvement requirements required to reach the minimum score set out in the specification. In the subsequent processing and packaging stages, separation and identification of the product obtained from the farms tested and complying with the requirements of the specification shall be ensured.
  3. Issue of the Certificate of Conformity based on information and data collected as part of the evaluation and verification process. The certificate contains a list of certified products that meet the requirements of the standard.
  4. Annual surveillance through regular inspections and analyses to confirm the maintenance of compliance conditions.

Documents and downloadable files

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