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ANNEXURE XI

MINIMUM INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS AND PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES

Interpreted and applied to the inspection scheme referred to in Section 12 and 13 of the Ecocert-Afrisco standards for organic agriculture

C. Units for preparation of plant and livestock products and foodstuffs composed of plant and livestock products

This section applies to any unit involved in the preparation, as defined in Section 1 of the Afrisco standards of products certified in terms of the Afrisco standards for its own account or for account of a third party, and including in particular also:

units involved in packaging and/or re-packaging of such products;
units involved in labelling and/or re-labelling of such products.

C.1. Initial inspection

The full description of the unit referred to under Section A2 above must show the facilities used for the reception, the processing, packaging, labelling and storage of agricultural products before and after the operations concerning them, as well as the procedures for the transport of the products.

C.2. Preparation units handling also products not from organic production

Where products not certified in terms of the Afrisco standards are also prepared, packaged or stored in the preparation unit concerned:

the unit must have areas separated by place or time within the premises for the storage of products certified in terms of the Afrisco standards before and after the operations,
operations must be carried out continuously until the complete run has been dealt with, separated by place or time from similar operations performed on products not certified in terms of the Afrisco standards,
if such operations are not carried out at regular times or on a fixed day, they must be announced in advance, with a deadline agreed on with Ecocert-Afrisco,
every measure must be taken to ensure identification of lots and to avoid mixtures or exchanges with products not obtained in accordance with the rules laid down in the Afrisco standards,
operations on products which meet the rules laid down in the Afrisco standards must be carried out only after cleaning of the production equipment. The effectiveness of the cleaning measures must be checked and recorded.

C.3. Packaging and transport of products to preparation units

Milk, eggs and egg-products from organic farming shall be collected independently from products not produced in accordance with the Afrisco standards. By exception, and subject to the prior approval by Ecocert-Afrisco, simultaneous collection may occur, where appropriate measures are taken to prevent any possible mixture or exchange with products not produced in accordance with the Afrisco standards and to ensure the identification of the products produced in accordance with the provisions of the Afrisco standards. The operator keeps the information relating to collection days, hours, circuit and date and time of reception of the products available to Ecocert-Afrisco.