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Awareness is the first step to preventing fraud. SOS stays up-to-date on the organic regulation, fraud incidents and other critical events and resources that can help organic businesses reduce the fraud opportunity.
Organic Sustainability Wheel – Organic Trade Association 2023.
Organic Awareness
- What is organic?
- Why is organic integrity important?
- Why does organic fraud occur?
- What is the Strengthening Organic Enforcement (SOE) Rule?
- What is an Organic Fraud Prevention Plan (OFPP)?
Events
Where You’ll Find Us – Fall 2026 / Spring 2027
Find SOS out in the organic field—sharing ideas, strengthening connections, and helping move organic forward.
National Organic Standards Board — Fall 2026 Meeting
October 20 & 22, 2026 | Virtual
SOS Participation: Gwendolyn Wyard and Johanna Phillips will provide oral public comments during the NOSB Fall 2026 Public Comment Webinars, bringing SOS perspectives on organic integrity, oversight, and the issues before the Board. The full NOSB meeting follows October 27–29.
Provender Alliance — 50th Annual Conference
October 21–23, 2026 | McMenamins Edgefield, Troutdale, Oregon
SOS Participation: Gwendolyn Wyard will speak Thursday in From Farm to Shelf: Strengthening Organic Retail Through Merchandising, Education & Integrity, joining Mallory Cochrane of the Oregon Organic Coalition, and Mike Dill and Jeff Fairchild of Organically Grown Company OGC). The session focuses on practical ways retailers can strengthen organic merchandising, certification knowledge, grower relationships, and consumer trust.
Organic Grower Summit 2026
December 2–3, 2026 | Hyatt Regency Monterey, Monterey, California
SOS Participation: Gwendolyn Wyard will present The Growing Risk of Organic Fraud and Eroding Consumer Confidence, exploring how growers can differentiate authentic organic production, build stronger buyer relationships, protect against fraudulent competition, and turn integrity into marketplace value.
ACA Conference: PROOF
January 26–28, 2027 | Louisville, Kentucky
SOS Participation: Johanna Phillips will attend on behalf of SOS, connecting with organic certification professionals and participating in conversations around risk-based certification, consistency, and organic integrity.
Organicology 2027
February 16–18, 2027 | Revolution Hall, Portland, Oregon
SOS Participation: Gwendolyn Wyard will speak Thursday in Buzzing With Life: Reclaiming Organic as a Living Ecosystem, alongside Rebecca Sweet of Buzz Cover Crop Seeds and Shannon Cappellazzi of Oregon State University.
Resources and Helpful Tools
SOS Organic Integrity Library
Verify the Organic Status of Your Ingredients and Suppliers
There is an excellent tool for tracking and verifying organic certificates, operations, and compliance with the USDA organic regulations. It’s called the USDA Organic Integrity Database (OID). The OID is an important and powerful database, especially if you know how to perform an advanced search. It’s also the official verification location for organic certification status.
To support SOS clients and other businesses dedicated to organic integrity, SOS has developed a helpful resource with step-by-step instructions on how to perform an OID Advanced Search.
Click on the following link and get started: SOS Instructions for performing advances searches in OID
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