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QAI, global leader in organic certification services, verifies that growers, processors and handlers of organic products worldwide meet all applicable standards and regulations. Offering international accessibility and streamlined, professional client services.

Importers of organic, specialty, and decaf teas, spices from around the world, lemon myrtle from Australia, rooibus from South Africa. Largest importer of organic and bio-dynamic teas in North America offering the widest selection.

QuaRex core business is regulatory and quality compliance for medical devices, food, and pharmaceutical products.

Quarex consulting LLC assists clients in their projects to ensure compliance and training. Consultants provide technical expertise in quality and regulatory and conduct compliance gaps analysis, audits by certified auditors, support in writing files and implementation of processes. They are also able to provide regular training.

Beatrice NAJEM is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Founder of QuaRex Consulting LLC. She has worked in the healthcare industry for more than 14 years in Europe, in regulatory and quality affairs. Béatrice holds a master’s degree in nutrition science from the University of Paris Diderot –France, a certification in Quality Management System from Agroparitech engineering school – France (equivalent to a master), and a BS in nutrition from Saint-Joseph University in Lebanon.
She worked for foodtech facilities, consulting companies, and pharmaceutical/ biotechnology companies as quality and regulatory manager. These different experiences and regulatory mindset had contributed significantly to her regulatory and quality skills and her recognition as an expert in these areas. She is also been a guest lecturer in regulatory affairs for the last 3 years in Rouen University – France.
After the birth of her third daughter in 2021, she started in France her own consultancy firm supporting critical regulatory projects. In 2023, she moved to the USA and created QuaRex consulting LLC in the Greater Boston Area.

At Quarter Acre Farm we grow certified organic vegetables and seedlings with agricultural expertise. We only use sustainable growing methods no pesticides, herbicides, or petroleum based products are ever used on the land. We became certified organic through CCOF in 2010. We sell to Sonoma Valley restaurants and at the local farmers market.

The Quinn Institute stands as a testament to the enduring power of organic and regenerative agriculture. Established by Bob Quinn, a visionary 4th generation farmer, author, renowned scientist, and passionate advocate for sustainable farming, our institute is the culmination of a lifetime spent in the pursuit of harmonizing agriculture with nature.

We believe that food is not just a means of sustenance but a path to healing both people and the planet. At The Quinn Institute, we embody Bob's philosophy that "food is medicine," and we work tirelessly to produce nutrient-dense food through methods that honor the earth and its inhabitants.

The mission of The Quinn Institute is ambitious yet simple: to scale up the number of successful regenerative organic producers and demonstrate that agriculture can be both profitable and a force for good. Through research, education, and practical demonstrations, we aim to lead by example, showing that the health of our communities and the planet is intertwined with the health of our farms.

The campus covers approximately 700 acres of donated land, previously part of the Quinn Farm & Ranch that has been in a regenerative organic agricultural system and certified organic for over 25 years. It is 12 miles Southeast of Big Sandy in North Central Montana between the Bear’s Paw Mountains and the Missouri River Breaks formally on the indigenous lands of the Blackfeet, Nakota, and Assiniboine Tribes. It is representative of the short grass prairie of the Northern Great Plains East of the Rocky Mountains encompassing large parts of eastern Montana, the western Dakotas, smaller distinct portions of Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, as well as Southern Saskatchewan and Southeast Alberta – together roughly the size of the entire state of California. The primary area represented and served by this research center covers parts of 6 states and 2 Canadian Provinces.

The campus will be divided into multiple fields to demonstrate the effect of rotations on cash crops, cover crops, unusual crops, as well as interrelationships of livestock with both native pasture and crop land. Rented acres from a bordering non-organic farm will allow experiments comparing organic and non-organic systems. Areas for small replicated plots will also be available.

Small gardens and orchards will provide opportunities to learn management and production skills. A teaching kitchen and small processing facilities will provide a place to teach participants how to take the food from the field or garden to the plate providing students with many learning opportunities for preparing and preserving their own food. Local health practitioners will help ensure the purpose of healthy food is complete by prescribing it to those suffering from all types of chronic and mental disease. Thus, prescriptions will be food from the farm rather than pills from the pharmacy. In this way we may have food as medicine rather than pills as food.