SUBSTANCE

DESCRIPTION;  COMPOSITIONAL REQUIREMENTS;  CONDITIONS OF USE

Farmyard and poultry manure

Products comprising a mixture of animal excre­ments and vegetable matter (animal bedding).
Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco if not sourced from organic pro­duction systems.
Indication of animal species.
Coming from extensive farming only.
Intensive farming sources must be composted.

Slurry or urine (not from human origin)

If not from organic sources, need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco. 
Use after controlled fer­mentation and/or appro­priate dilution.
Factory farming sources not permitted.
Indication of animal species.

Composted animal excrements, including poultry manure

Factory farming sources not permitted.
Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.
Indication of animal species.

Dried farmyard manure and dehydrated poultry manure

Need recognised by the approved the certifying organisation.
Indication of animal species.
Coming from extensive farming only.
Intensive farming sources must be composted

Guano

Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.

Straw

Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.

Composts from spent mushroom & dejecta of worms and insects (vermiculture substrates)

The initial composition limited to products on this list.

Composted or fermented organic household refuse

Organic vegetable and animal waste separated from household waste, which has been sub­mitted to composting or anaerobic fermentation for biogas production.
Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.
Maximum concentrations in mg/kg of dry matter:  Cadmium:  0,7;  Copper:  70;  Nickel:  25;  Lead:  45;  Zinc:  200; Mercury:  0,4;  Chromium (total):  70;  Chromium (VI):  0(*).
(*) = limit of determination.

Composted or fermented plant residues

Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.
Mixtures of plant matter which has been sub­mitted to composting or anaerobic fermentation for biogas production.

Processed animal products from slaughterhouses & fish industries:

-    blood meal
-    hoof meal
-    horn meal
-    bone meal or degelatinized bone meal
-    fish meal
-    meat meal
-    feather, hair and "chiquette" meal
-    wool
-    fur

-    hair
-    dairy products

Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.

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maximum concentration in mg/kg of dry matter of Chromium (VI):0 (*).
(*) = limit of determination
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By-products of food industries

Not treated with synthetic additives.
Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.

Seaweeds and seaweeds products

Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.
Directly obtained by --
physical processes;
extraction with water or acid and/or alkaline solution; and
fermentation.

Sawdust, bark and wood waste

From wood not chemically treated after felling.

Wood ash

From wood not chemically treated after felling.

Natural phosphate rock

Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.
Cadmium should not exceed 90 mg/kg of P205.

Basic slag

Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.

Rock potash, mined potassium salts (e.g. kainite, sylvinite)

Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.

Potassium sulphate, possibly containing magnesium salt

Obtained by physical procedures but not enriched by.
Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.
Derived from crude potassium salt.

Calcium carbonate of natural origin (e.g. chalk, marl, maerl, limestone, phosphate chalk)

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Magnesium and calcium carbonate of natural origin (e.g. magnesian chalk, ground magnesium limestone)

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Industrial lime from sugar production

Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.

Epsom salt (magnesium-sulphate)

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Gypsum (calcium sulphate)

Only of natural origin.

Stillage and stillage extract

Ammonium stillage excluded.

Sodium chloride

Only mined salt.
Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.

Aluminium calcium phosphate

Cadmium should not exceed 90 mg/kg of P2O5.
Use limited to basic soils (pH > 7,5).

Trace elements (e.g. boron, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, zinc)

Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.

Sulphur

Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.

Stone meal

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Clay (e.g. bentonite, vermiculite, perlite, zeolite)

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Naturally occurring biological organisms (e.g. worms)

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Peat

Excluding synthetic additives; permitted for seed, potting module composts (limited to hor­ticulture).

Calcium chloride solution

Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.
Foliar treatment of apple trees after identification of deficit of calcium.

By-products of industries processing ingredients from organic agriculture

Need recognised by Ecocert-Afrisco.