In 2013, the NOSB established an internal procedure for reviewing
ancillary substances when ingredients or processing aids are submitted for review (including new materials petitioned for new listings in the regulations, and materials that currently exist in the regulations and are up for their periodic re-review).
That answer was provided recently at the April 2016 NOSB meeting, where a final recommendation was passed for a procedure that certifiers and material review organizations should follow when reviewing an ingredient or processing aid that includes novel
ancillary substances.
This procedure ensures transparency of
the ancillary substances that the NOSB reviewed and considered to be allowed.
The NOSB has been working for several years to develop policies and procedures that will bring consistency and transparency to the review and approval of
ancillary substances in ingredients and processing aids used in organic processed foods.
The NOSB will take into account public input and publish a final recommendation regarding the specific material and any allowed
ancillary substances.
Ancillary substances are essential in some materials.
Although the National Organic Program (NOP) will need to integrate the procedure into an instruction in the NOP Handbook so that it is enforceable by certifiers and material review organizations, the procedure can still be used in the meantime as a general guide for determining compliance of
ancillary substances.
If a Technical Report is commissioned for the material, the report will identify all possible
ancillary substances that are used to manufacture the material.
These minor ingredients, referred to as «
ancillary substances,» are used in formulating ingredients and processing aids for a particular functional effect, but they do not remain in the final organic product.
The NOSB will review the information and prepare a recommendation that includes a proposed list of allowed
ancillary substances, which will be published for public comment.
For some materials, the requirements for
ancillary substances are clearly written in the regulations, such as the annotation for «flavors» that specifically prohibits synthetic solvents, carrier systems and preservatives.
Other examples of
ancillary substances formulated with ingredients and processing aids are anticaking agents, preservatives, and pH buffers.
What if an ingredient or processing aid includes
an ancillary substance that was not specifically reviewed by the NOSB?
This series of procedures will ensure consistent and transparent review in the event that
an ancillary substance was not known at the time of NOSB's consideration of the material.
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ancillary issues, such as whether material
substances are properly - speaking forms or rather composites, etc..
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substance of the story, but instead on the minutiae of
ancillary issues, and the credibility of Mapes and Rather themselves, which led to personal attacks that had nothing to do with their professional competence.
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substance, the 100 % owner of a company that owns an asset that might usefully be applied in or towards satisfaction of a wife's
ancillary relief claim, it will or may be open to the court to pierce the company's corporate veil and treat that asset as property of the husband so as to enable it to be the subject of a s 24 (1)(a) order».
After a couple of brief meetings with partners around the firm I quickly discern that the level of dissatisfaction couldn't be more extreme and that the
substance of partner discontent was in the huge amount of money being squandered on three disastrously unprofitable
ancillary business operations.
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