The Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has determined the following foreign government conformity assessment program sufficient to ensure conformity to the technical standards of USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP). These determinations allow organic certification organizations in good standing, to apply the NOP technical standards to certify operations that produce or handle agricultural products that will be sold, labeled or represented as organic in the United States. Production or handling operations certified by an organization that is recognized under these determinations may only use the USDA organic seal on their products when those products have been produced and handled in accordance to the NOP regulations.

APEDA Program Contact: Dr. S. Dave

Phone: 00-91-11-26513162

E-mail: director@apeda.gov.in

Effective Date of Recognition: February 16, 2006

Status: Current

Marwah Centre, 6th Floor

Opp. Ansa Industrial Estate

Krishanlal Marwah Marg

Off Saki-Vihar Road

Andheri (East)

Mumbai-400 072

(Maharashtra)

Mr. R. K. Sharma

Phone: 022-56956300, 56956311

Fax: 022-66956302/56956302 / 10

E-mail: scsinfo@in.bureauveritas.com

"Summer Ville" 8th Floor

33rd -14th Road Junction, Khar (West)

Mumbai – 400 052

(Maharashtra)

Mr. Dirk Teichert

Phone: +91-22-67255390/91/92/93

Fax: +91-22-67255394/95

E-mail: cuc@controlunion.in

Sector-3, S-6/3 & 4, Gut No. 102

Hindustan Awas Ltd.

Walmi-Waluj Road

Nakshatrawadi

Aurangabad – 431 002

(Maharashtra)

Dr. Selvam Daniel

Phone: 0240-2377120, 2376949

Fax: 0240-2376866

E-mail: ecocert@sancharnet.in

(With effect from January 2007)

No. 1314, Double Road

Indiranagar 2nd Stage

Bangalore-560 038.

(Karnataka)

Mr. Umesh Chandrasekhar

Phone: 080-25285883, 2520 1546

Fax: 080-25272185

E-mail: imoind@vsnl.com

Thottumugham

P.O. Aluva-683 105

Cochin,

(Kerala)

Mr. Mathew Sebastian

Fax:0484-2630908-09/2620943

E-mail: Mathew.Sebastian@indocert.org

Chenathra, Theepany

Thiruvalla - 689 101.

(Kerala)

Mr. Bobby Issac

Fax: 0469 2606447

E-mail: laconindia@sancharnet.in

Chhatrapati House

Ground Floor

Near P. N. Gadgil Showroom

Pune-411 038

(Maharashtra)

Mr. Sanjay Deshmukh

Phone: 020-25457869, 56218063

Fax: 020-2539-0096

E-mail: contact@nocaindia.com

Agrasen Farm, Vatika Road (P.O. Vatika), Off Tonk,

Jaipur-303 905,

(Rajasthan)

Mr. Sandeep Bhargava

Fax: 0141-2771100/01/2770342

E-mail: info@onecertasia.in

250 Udyog Vihar

Phase – IV, Udyog Vihar

Gurgaon – 122 015

(Haryana)

Mr. Sudarshan Sharma

Phone: 0124 – 2399990 to 98

Fax: 0124 – 2399764

E-mail: sudarshan_sharma@sgs.com

12/II Vasant Vihar

Dehradun-248 006

(Uttaranchal)

Dr. S. K. Malik

Phone: 0135-2760861

Fax: 0135-2760861/2760734

E-mail: uss_opca@rediffmail.com