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National List: Materials Update

Lisa M. Brines, Ph.D.

NOP Standards Division

National Organic Standards Board Meeting

November 16, 2016

St. Louis, MO
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This meeting:

• 12 petitioned materials on the agenda

• 15 materials for Sunset 2018 (meeting #2 

for Sunset)
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Evaluation Criteria for Materials

• Criteria are provided for in the Organic Foods 

Production Act of 1990 (OFPA)

• Petition guidelines, technical report evaluation 

questions and NOSB review documents align with 

OFPA criteria

• Different criteria for production uses vs. handling

• Additional criteria for synthetic processing aids and 

adjuvants at § 205.600(b)
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Outstanding Petitions - Crops

This meeting:

• Aluminum sulfate

• Soy wax

• 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP)

• Ammonium citrate

• Ammonium glycinate

• Potassium cellulose glycolate
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Outstanding Petitions - Crops

Under Subcommittee review:

• Fatty alcohols*

• Allyl Isothiocyanate (AITC)*

• Sodium citrate*

• Natamycin*

• Ammonium nonanoate

• Polyoxin D Zinc Salt*

*Technical reports requested or in development

Petitions available on the NOP website
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Outstanding Petitions - Livestock

This meeting:

• Ivermectin

• Aluminum sulfate

• Sodium bisulfate

• Acid-activated bentonite
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Outstanding Petitions - Livestock

Under Review:

• Glycolic acid*

• Hypochlorous acid*

• Sulfur*

• Aquaculture (x10)

Petitions available on the NOP website

*Technical reports requested or in development
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Outstanding Petitions – Handling

This meeting:

• Sodium chlorite, for generation of chlorine dioxide 

gas

• Oat protein concentrate

Petitions available on the NOP website
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Outstanding Petitions – Handling

Under Subcommittee Review

Petitions available on the NOP website

• L-Methionine

• Sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (SDBS)

• Short DNA Tracers
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Other Technical Reports – Status Update

In development:

– Bisphenol A (Handling)

– Newspaper & other 

recycled paper (Crops)

– Anaerobic digestate

(Crops)

Now available:

– Xanthan gum (Handling)

– Phosphates (Handling)

– Peracetic acid (Handling)

– Peracetic acid (Livestock)

– Marine Plants and Algae
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Technical Report Contractors

– AMS Agricultural Analytics Division

– ICF International

–Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI)

– Pesticide Research Institute

Comments on technical reports can be submitted to the NOSB through 

www.regulations.gov
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Voting Procedures

• For petitioned substances, NOSB votes on two 

motions:

– 1st motion: Classification (if not previously classified)

• Synthetic / Nonsynthetic

• Agricultural / Nonagricultural

– 2nd motion: To list/remove/amend

• 2/3 majority needed for decisive vote
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Sunset 2018

• Sunset dates: May 29, 2018 and November 3, 2018

• Considered at Spring 2016 and Fall 2016 NOSB 

meetings

• Voting will occur at this Fall 2016 meeting

• National List materials and sunset dates are 

available on agenda and in the NOP Handbook

• See NOP 5611: National List Sunset Dates
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Sunset 2018

• Crops: 5 listings

• Handling: 9 listings
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Sunset 2018

Updated Technical Reports Available:

• Peracetic acid (Crops)

• Carrageenan (Handling)

• Cellulose (Handling)

• Glucono delta-lactone (Handling)

• Potassium Hydroxide (Handling)
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Thank you!