Documents
What we publish, and what we do not.
Four governed documents set out the standard, our own procedures and the wider certification landscape. The rest are the working forms a farm visit uses. Farm visit reports and application dossiers are never published: they contain a farmer's personal information.
SAOSO Organic Standard v2.1
Principles, Policies & Procedures
Basic Production Principles
Certification Landscape
Farm Visit Preparation List
Checklist — Crops
Checklist — Crops & Animals
Checklist — Seed Production
Farm visit reports & application dossiers
Why these are public
A participatory guarantee system asks a consumer to trust a judgement made face to face rather than by a distant inspector. That trust is only reasonable if the standard being assessed, the group's own procedures and the forms a visit uses are all readable by anyone.