Certified Biostimulant is a voluntary program that certifies conformity to the United States Biostimulant Industry Guidelines to Support the Safety, Composition and Efficacy of Plant Biostimulant Products. The program does not certify, evaluate, or test a product. The certification program is verifying conformance to the guideline above. This certification does not guarantee a product works; Instead, the certification aligns with a consistent framework that can be used to report efficacy testing methods, composition, and safety claims of plant biostimulant products.

While the program does not require or ask for confidential information, TFI has policies in effect to protect any submitted data. However, a web portal of certified products containing the company name; company website, product name; product category (i.e. one of the 5 product types identified in the standard), sales staff contact name, email and phone number; certification expiration date; certification identification (ID) number; link to the product label; label claims; SDS; and the full efficacy workbook (or CBI redacted information efficacy workbook.) The information appearing on the TFI website is a marketing and promotion tool for the companies that participate. TFI wants to highlight and promote companies in the program as a benefit of participation. It should be noted that all expired certified products will be removed from the web portal.

There will be two fees to participate – an application submittal fee and a renewal fee. The
renewal fee occurs every 2 years after the initial application is submitted.

• Members
  o Application fee: $1,800 USD/product
  o Renewal fee (every 2 years; no changes to product): $750 USD/product
  o If there are any changes to the product, rather than a renewal, the company must re-submit the product Application and Application Fee($1,800 USD).

• Non-Members.
  o Application fee: $5,500 USD/product
  o Renewal fee (no changes to product) $1,500 USD/product
  o If there are any changes to the product, rather than a renewal, the company must re-submit the product Application and Application Fee ($5,500 USD). 
• The certification identification will list a 6 year expiration date. There are to be attestations from biostmulant manufacturers on product claims and formulation changes every two years. Modifications to product active ingredients constitute a formulation change. Any reported changes will suspend the current certification until a new application is submitted and approved.