Community Garden Magazine Issue Five January 2016 | Page 87

From the USDA…..
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is pleased to share a summary from a December
10, 2015 webinar on the Organic Integrity Database.

Organic INTEGRITY Database: Public Demo and Webinar Summary
On December 10, 2015, the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) National
Organic Program (NOP) and Information Technology Service (ITS) hosted a public
webinar about the Organic INTEGRITY Database, an information technology project
launched earlier this fall.
Attended by more than 125 people, this webinar included two demos: one of the existing
public facing search and reporting capabilities and the other of the newly released
certifier section of the database that allows for fast and easy updates to certified organic
operation information. Additional system capabilities scheduled for release next year
were also reviewed.
We are pleased to provide a summary of feedback received during the webinar, a
transcript of the question and answer session, the webinar slides, and the recording.

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