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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.
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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
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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.
More......
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