Six new standards approved in IFOAM Family of Standards this year

A number of COROS equivalence assessments for applicant standards have been completed, and some of those standards were approved in the IFOAM Family of Standards as a result in 2013:
 

The IFOAM Standard for Organic Production and Processing. The Standard was approved by the IFOAM General assembly in August 2012. Subsequently, the COROS equivalence assessment process was conducted, leading to an approval of the Standard in January 2013.
 

The Asian Regional Organic Standard (AROS), which was published in 2012, and approved in the family in January 2013. The standard was developed by a public-private partnership of stakeholders in East, South-East and South Asia under the auspices of the GOMA project, led by the Food and Agriculture Program of the United Nations (FAO), the IFOAM and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
 

The Krav Standard, approved in August 2013. The Krav standard is the basis for the Krav label, which is the most well-known symbol in Sweden for organic food. The standard is based on the EU Regulation but goes significantly further, along all the COROS objectives.
 

The MASIPAG Standard, approved in August 2013, after a 2 years-process of application and revision of the standard. It is aimed for local use in the Philippines, within the MASIPAG Participatory Guarantee System.
 

The Vietnam PGS Standard, also approved in August 2013. It was developed through the ADDA-VNFU Organic Project, for use in Vietnam within the Participatory Guarantee System.
 

The EcoWellness Standard, approved in October 2013. This standard is healthoriented, with health-related requirements that go beyond organic. The standard requires, as a basis, certification against any standard in the IFOAM Family of Standards.
 

In 2013, IFOAM also completed and published the COROS assessments of the EU Organic Regulation and of the US Organic Regulation. Both standards have significant gaps towards the COROS, however have been assessed as still overall equivalent, and hence their approval in the IFOAM Family of Standards is maintained. The full detailed COROS assessments are available to anyone on request here.

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