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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. We
ourselves are supervised by several government agencies
and private organisations so you can be
sure that our integrity is not only based on our word.
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 undermine 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:
27-Mar-2012
NEWS
March 8:
In the EU the regulation (EC)203/2012 amends implementing rules
(889/2008) to include organic wine production. More
...
Feb 21:
3 new services from the IOAS.
Feb 15:
The USA and European Union announce a bilateral equivalence agreement
that will allow organic products certified under either regime to be
sold without further verifications in the other territory. Some
limitations apply.
US announcement.
EU regulation.
Jan 25:
The IOAS are seeking a freelance expert in organic and natural cosmetics.
More ..
Jan 24:
Bookmark your BioFach programme to attend our panel session on IFOAM
accreditation and imports - Wednesday February 15th, 15-16.00h, room
Oslo, CNN Ost level 2. View the discussion paper
EN,
ES,
FR,
DE
Jan 23:
The IOAS invites applications for a 3 month volunteer 'virtual'
internship. More ...
Dec 28:
Happy Holidays and best wishes for 2012 from the IOAS to all our
colleagues and collaborators!
Dec 6:
European Commission publishes first list of equivalent certification
bodies. View the IOAS press release.
Nov 25:
IOAS reduces accreditation fees for limited scope programmes.
More ....
Nov 17:
Robert Duxbury of the United Kingdom takes over as IOAS President and
Diana Callear of South Africa becomes Vice President.
 
Nov 1:
Cristina Comezaña of Argentina joins the IOAS as Client Manager.
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Oct 26:
IFOAM invite applications for an
Organic Guarantee System expert.
Sep 23:
Governments can use IFOAM
accreditation to ease the burden of international trade requirements for
organic products
Sep 22:
Following an amendment to the Chilean regulation on organic agriculture
the IOAS can now provide accreditation to the Chilean Norm 20.089 as a
basis for certifier approval to operate in Chile.
Aug 9: The
IOAS annual report for 2010 is available.
More......
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