Mexican organic law
LPO
The LPO (Mexican Organic Agriculture Law) allows the sale of organic products in Mexico. The new version of the LPO has several features:
Before this 2021 update, organic certified products (NOP, EOS, etc.) were accepted in Mexico under organic denominations: it was not mandatory to have an LPO certificate. Today, a product certified LPO in Mexico offers consumers guarantees verified by their national law, without misleading communication.
LPO Organic Regulation on the Mexican Government website: Servicio Nacional de Sanidad, Inocuidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria
It is a facility offered by Mexican law for imported products.
It allows the endorsement of certificates from another organic standard (NOP, CE, etc.) in the early stages of the certification chain (such as primary production), to certify only the final stage outside of Mexico. Re-certification is granted through an on-site audit and the approval of the current organic certificates.
We still offer LPO certification in Canada even though the agreement was finalized on February 15, 2023.
Here are the products covered by the agreement:
Note: Applies to products that are grown or produced in Canada, or whose final processing is carried out in Canada. Final processing: activities associated with cooking, heating, drying, mixing, grinding, separating, extracting, slaughtering animals, cutting, fermenting, distilling, eviscerating, stemming, preserving, dehydrating, precooling, cooling, freezing, or manufacturing procedures similar to the above, and which include packaging, repackaging, canning, conditioning, or confining food in containers.
Outside the scope of the agreement:
The logo can be used for all products exported to Mexico.