Our Promise

By developing and investing in True Organic, we maintain the basic tenet that food safety is the right of the consumer and a responsibility of the provider. Thus, Multiple Organics voluntarily takes these extra steps to ensure that the food we supply to our customers, your customers, and ultimately the general public, are the safest, highest quality organic products available. This is our promise to you.

By choosing Multiple Organics, you're not just buying ingredients, you're supporting a standard of integrity that protects consumers and strengthens trust in organic labels. Let's redefine what it means to be truly organic, one ingredient at a time.

Work with us to create a safer food system, share this information with your consumers and retailers and push all your suppliers to start taking more preventative food safety action. Together we can create a safer, more sustainable food system for all.

Multiple Organics Safety & Testing True Organic

With the ever-increasing number of food safety warnings coming from the media, the FDA and the food industry itself, Multiple Organics has developed an aggressive and comprehensive food safety program called True Organic. Working with globally respected leaders in food safety for over a two decades, our multi-tiered “True Organic” program has been designed to teach, monitor and promote food safety worldwide, from the farms where we source our products through to receipt by our valued family of clients.

**The True Organic Difference**

While many other food suppliers may do the bare minimum to get by, treating food like any other commodity to be traded, Multiple Organics realizes that food is precious, and it must be handled with utmost care. Although the FDA now has the authority to enforce more stringent food safety regulations, it is not solely the responsibility of the FDA, but, instead, the food industry, to do what can be done to raise the food safety bar. We must continue to strive for the best practices approach to food safety, regardless of FDA regulation and other applicable law. To ensure safer organic food through each level of the supply chain, the True Organic program involves six key steps including:

Step 1—Extensive Supplier Pre-Qualification Screenings:

Performed by individuals trained in food safety, compliance matters, and organic oversight

For each facility that supplies products to Multiple Organics provide:

Current Organic certificates, all (NOP, EU, COR, JAS, etc.)
Any and all food safety certifications (GMP, HACCP, GAP, SQF, FSSC 22000, BRC, ISO 9001/22000, IFS, etc.)
Current FDA Food Facility Registration Number (required for foreign suppliers, desired for domestic suppliers)
California Transparency in Supply Chain Act Certification
No Animal Testing Certification
Proprietary Multiple Organics Quality and Operations Survey
Third party food safety audit reports
HACCP flow charts

For each Item supplied to Multiple Organics:

Product specification sheet with quality and microbiological attributes
Nutritional information
Multiple Organics Allergen and Sensitivity Questionnaire
It is highly desired, but not required that the material vendor provides:

Any Social Responsibility certifications (Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, etc.)
Any additional certifications (Non-GMO, Gluten Free, etc.)
Any religious certifications (Kosher, Halal, etc.)

Step 2—Product Safety Testing at Independent Lab:

Each lot is tested for harmful pathogens in an independent microbiology lab prior to being released to clients, and products are randomly tested for heavy metals and pesticide residue based on a proprietary strategic screening system.

Step 3—Ongoing Compliance/Continuous Improvement:

Working with food safety experts to stay on top of the latest science and best practices to mitigate risks and then sharing these methods with our partners.

In addition to being a first-of-its-kind program, True Organic is an ever-evolving best practices approach that is flexible enough respond to the latest environmental, regulatory and customer requirements.

Multiple Organics has assembled a team of independent food safety experts to help ensure that True Organic:

• Consistently reflects Multiple Organics’ core commitment to best practices

• Is responsive to current food safety issues as they unfold in real time, anticipating the food safety aspects of world events that potentially affect everyone’s access to safe and healthful food

While we recognize the reality that perfection in food safety is unattainable and that there is no way to eliminate all risks, the True Organic program was developed with the goal of achieving the best food safety practices in the industry, while continuously working to make sure that the True Organic standards evolve as new information is discovered. This means evaluating the latest scientific research, historical analysis and the predictive aspects of food safety along with observations and critiques from the growing fields and processing operations.

Multiple Annual Mock Recalls. Additionally, our extensively - documented recall program requires Multiple Organics to conduct mock recalls on a regular basis in order to strengthen our ability to communicate in a timely and effective manner in the worst case scenario, thus reducing impact and containing the problem as fast as humanly possible.

Our Promise: