The Codex Committee on Food Labeling (CCFL) has approved new work to expand the scope of the Codex Organic Guidelines to include aquaculture. The decision was in response to a proposal for new work on aquaculture brought forward by the…
GOMA is supporting the completion of a regional organic standard in Central America. GOMA’s support enables the Competent Authorities on Organic Agriculture (ACAO) of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic to resume work on…
Background No country produces all the organic products that they need. In Australia around 60% of the organic products sold in retails shops are either fully imported or a composite of imported and domestic products. Australia, like most countries, needs…
Participants from 12 countries in East, South-East and South Asia, meeting at GOMA’s workshop in Shanghai, China, from 27-29 May 2010, have declared their intent to move forward on concrete measures to reduce and avoid barriers to trade of…
Grolink believes that tasting samples is the best way to discover delicious things. It is therefore offering a free issue of The Organic Standard. Delicious topics in this issue include an examination of whether sustainable agriculture initiatives really deliver, and…
GOMA offers technical assistance to countries or private accreditation/certification bodies to use GOMA Tools to assess equivalence with other organic standards and certification performance requirements. The project may be either pilot projects on equivalence or formal equivalence negotiations between parties. …
The Global Organic Textile Standards Program (GOTS), an international quality assurance system for organic textile processing, has adopted the International Requirements for Organic Certification Bodies (IROCB) as its normative reference for accrediting certification bodies. The Global Standard, GmbH, which administers…
The GOMA Steering Committee has decided to replace the EquiTool Annex on Common Organic Objectives with a comprehensive and more practical annex for assessing common objectives of organic standards. “We have recognized the opportunity to streamline the process of equivalence…
Tigers and lions of organic trade are on the move in Asia. Strong participation from Asian countries in the International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture (ITF) and the rate of organic trade inquiries coming from Asia…
GOMA and the Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación Agricultura (IICA) are partnering to support six Central American Nations plus the Dominican Republic to complete the development of regional organic standards. GOMA is providing 35,000 Euro in financial support plus technical support;…
