We are one of the first USDA certified organic restaurants in the country, and certainly the first in the Midwest. The seal means that the USDA's National Organic Program regulates the standards for any products that are organically produced in the store. The National Organic Program and the Organic Foods Production Act, assures to the public that the products manufactured in the restaurant are indeed organic and maintain the highest quality possible and consistent with the national organic program.
Basilico Organic goes through a very strict process of regulations and inspections, which controls the quality of many different aspects of the restaurant, from produce to cleaning to water filtration methods. Basilico is proud to carry an intricate reverse osmosis and ionization system which effectively removes different types of bacteria, chlorine, arsenic, nitrates, heavy metals, sediments and other harmful contaminants that regular filtration systems cannot remove.
Basilico Organic is very proud of becoming the first certified organic restaurant by one of the nation’s most reliable certification house called CCOF which stands for California Certified Organic Farmers. The CCOF seal has been an assurance of certification with integrity, as it remains one of the oldest and largest organic certification and trade associations in North America, with more than 1,600 members throughout the farm and processing community.
Every recipe on the menu is certified USDA organic with the exception of items that contain seafood, since products that come from the sea provide certain controversies regarding certification methods and how to certify them accordingly, the USDA department along with CCOF does not provide yet with a seafood certification method. However, due to the culinary diversity that we offer, Basilico Organic provides only with the best kind of wild caught seafood, from our tuna salads to the crabmeat used in our sushi selections. This means no canned tuna, no imitation crabmeat and no farm raised seafood which is often filled with harmful contaminants and colorants that cause and increase the risk of cancer and several other diseases.
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