What does the NON-GMO Project verified seal mean?
The verification seal indicates that the product bearing the seal has gone through a verification process. The verification is an assurance that a product has been produced according to consensus-based best practices for GMO avoidance:
The retailers who started the Non-GMO Project were motivated by a simple idea. They believed that consumers in North America should have access to clearly-labeled non-GMO food and products, now and in the future. That conviction continues to guide the Non- GMO Project, as North America’s only independent verification for products made according to best practices for GMO avoidance.
We require ongoing testing of all at-risk ingredients—any ingredient being grown commercially in GMO form must be tested prior to use in a verified product.
We use an Action Threshold of 0.9%. This is in alignment with laws in the European Union (where any product containing more than 0.9% GMO must be labeled). Absence of all GMOs is the target for all Non-GMO Project Standard compliant products. Continuous improvement practices toward achieving this goal must be part of the Participant’s quality management systems.
After the test, we require rigorous traceability and segregation practices to be followed in order to ensure ingredient integrity through to the finished product.
Verification is maintained through an annual audit, along with onsite inspections for high- risk products.
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