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Cultivating integrity and trust across the organic community .....

The International Organic Accreditation Service is an independent, non-profit organisation that works on behalf of everybody involved in organic agriculture to ensure trust and fair trade in products labelled as organic.

In this way the services we provide assist:

Our main activity is to verify the competence of certification bodies active in the field of organic and sustainable agriculture. We work world-wide, focusing our work solely in this field and apply our unparalleled experience with energy and commitment.

By ‘cultivating integrity’ we help to expand the area of land under organic and ecological management throughout the world - our contribution to a sustainable world.

Our direct clients are the certification or control bodies that inspect farms, processors and traders and the main services we provide are as follows:

At the same time as the world becomes ever-more regulated, the commitment of the IOAS is to continually work to reduce the burden of accreditation. We speak for harmonisation but in its absence we have designed our assessment system to handle the many regulations and standards in one assessment process. By doing so we provide the confidence needed at a cost that does not kill the system we are trying to encourage.

This site also provides information and a wide range of links to sites on more general topics related to the world wide regulation of organic foods and farming.

We hope you find what you are looking for; if not please contact us.

Last updated: 18/08/2010

NEWS

August 18: The IOAS Annual Report for 2009 is now available.

July 1: The IOAS is now able to accept applications from certification bodies for accreditation against the requirements for Organic Exchange textiles. More ...

April 19: Jennyfer Karall of Brazil has joined the IOAS as a new Client Manager. She replaces Afreen Rahman who left the IOAS on December 31, 2009.

February 19: Miles McEvoy of USDA NOP clarifies at BioFach that the NOP will indeed recognise products that are certified to the US/Canada import agreement in countries other than Canada.

February 9: The Canada Organic Standards and Permitted Substances List is now freely available for download.


The
new EU organic logo as announced February 8, 2010.

February 1: The IOAS starts a pilot project with SAN on accreditation of certification for the Rainforest Alliance label. More ...

The Committee Draft of ISO/IEC Guide 17065 which will replace the current Guide 65 completed its latest comment period on January 31, 2010 ….. More

January 15: The Hong Kong Organic Resouce Centre Certification Ltd has applied to the IOAS for accreditation against the IFOAM Norms.

January 6: The Japanese certification body Overseas Merchandise Inspection Co.Ltd has applied to the IOAS for accreditation against ISO guide 65 and under the European Recognition Programme.

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