Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-5-304: Certification program – Administration – Inspection and

analysis – Verification documents – Audits of records.

A. The State Board of Agriculture shall establish a program for

the certification of organic agricultural products. The Board shall

submit this program to the Secretary of the USDA for accreditation

as required by the Organic Food Production Act of 1990, as amended,

7 U.S.C., Section 6501 et seq. and rules promulgated pursuant

thereto. Upon accreditation, the Board shall act as a certifying

agent and issue a Certificate of Organic Production to an operation

that has met all requirements of the Oklahoma Organic Food Act and

rules promulgated pursuant thereto.

B. The Board shall promulgate appropriate rules for the

administration of the program for the certification of organic

agricultural products, including:

1. Standards for the analysis, inspection, and certification of

the organic agricultural products;

2. Records required of producers and handlers of organic

agricultural products;

3. Standards for the certification of producers and handlers of

organic agricultural products;

4. Lists of approved and prohibited substances for use in the

production and handling of organic agricultural products; and

5. A schedule of fees for initial certification and inspection

for continued certification as a producer or handler of organic

agricultural products.

C. The Board is authorized to inspect, sample, analyze, examine

records, and test any product claimed to be organically grown or

distributed within the state to determine if the product is in

compliance with the Oklahoma Organic Food Act. The Board has the

authority to enter upon public or private property at any reasonable

time for the purpose of administering the Oklahoma Organic Food Act.

Any certified operation or applicant for a Certificate of Organic

Production shall be deemed to have given consent to any authorized

agent of the Board to access, enter, inspect, or monitor the

property. Refusal to allow access, entry, or inspection shall

constitute grounds for the denial, nonrenewal, suspension, or

revocation of certification.

D. The Board shall require laboratory analysis of a product

claimed to be organically grown if it has reasonable cause to

suspect the product may contain a substance not approved for organic

production.

E. All new applicants are required to have their soil-growing

media and irrigation water, if not municipal, assayed for the

presence of pesticide residues.

F. Verification documents that may be required include, but are

not limited to, questionnaires, farm plans, affidavits, inspection

reports, laboratory assays, and other documents to verify the path

taken by an organic food product through post-harvest handling and

distribution.

G. The Board may conduct audits of all documents for

verification that producers meet the requirements of the Oklahoma

Organic Food Act and rules.

H. The Board is authorized to promulgate rules as necessary to

administer the Oklahoma Organic Food Act and establish certification

standards to carry out the Oklahoma Organic Food Act.

I. The Board is authorized to revoke, suspend, or not renew any

license upon satisfactory proof that the permittee has violated any

of the provisions of the Oklahoma Organic Food Act or rules

promulgated pursuant thereto.