A Manufacturer Declaration is used to obtain:
- the quantity of water and/or salt, which is excluded from the organic percentage calculation of your final product IF you list water and/or salt on the final product label
- the total organic percentage of a multi-ingredient ingredient, which is used in the OPP to calculate the total organic percentage of your processed product. NOTE: if a manufacturer does not disclose the organic percentage, the default values of 95% and 70% will be used for Category 1 (>95%) and Category 2 (70-94.9%) products, respectively.