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RE: California Organic Almond Processing Dear Valued Customer, As of September 1, 2007, federal regulation formally went into effect mandating that all California almonds commercially sold within the NAFTA countries undergo an additional food safety processing step to eliminate food born pathogens. We received what we believed to be specific instructions from the authorities to label our product as "treated," meaning that it as undergone one of the approved processes for the new food safety requirement. Recently we addressed this matter again with the authorities in conjunction with reviewing the rule. It turned out we are not required to label our product as "treated." Effective immediately, Baugher Ranch Organics has stopped labeling our product as "treated." We have product labeled as "treated" already in the supply chain and already processed and packaged. We anticipate product labeled as "treated" to move through our inventory stocks fairly quickly.  We
are passionate about every aspect of our organic almond business with
quality, integrity, and loyalty being our cornerstone. Being that
we exclusively handle organic almonds, we viewed this as a paramount
challenge to take a leadership role to locate and determine the best
process for our almonds. We narrowed it down to the two best thermal
heat treatment processes and then conducted detailed reviews based
on live representative processing. From that, we made a decision to
use the process which yielded the best all inclusive results. Our
almonds pass through a 200 degree Fahrenheit steam chamber for 20
to 22 seconds and then immediately proceed onto the drying and cooling
process. Once "treated," our almonds are then graded, sorted,
and stored in the manner you have become accustom to with Baugher
Ranch Organics. It is literally that simple.We have found this process to be the least intrusive of the organic compliant options we currently have in place. Even though this is a very good processing technique, we continue to research and support research that for alternative processing options. Sincerely, Baugher Ranch Organics |
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