Organic Content Standard

The Organic Content Standard (OCS) is an international, voluntary standard that provides chain of custody verification for materials originating on a farm certified to recognized national organic standards. The standard is used to verify organically grown raw materials from the farm to the final product. Individual sites are certified by independent, third-party certification bodies using annual audits. Material is tracked from the farm to the final product following the requirements of Textile Exchange’s Content Claim Standard (CCS).

The goal of the Organic Content Standard (OCS) is to increase organic agriculture production. The OCS aims to deliver this goal through three key objectives:

 • Provide the industry with a tool to verify the organically grown content of the products they purchase. 

• Provide companies with a trusted tool to communicate organically grown content claims to the industry. 

• Provide organic farmers with broad access to the global organic market for their products.

OCS certification applies to all supply chain sites of organically grown content: first processor, manufacturing, packaging and labeling, storage, handling, and shipping through the seller in the last business-to-business transaction.