Green claims: better methodologies to assess environmental performance of food & textiles products
IFOAM Organics Europe welcomes news about the Commission’s decision to postpone the publication of the Substantiating Green Claim Directive. This will allow to re-evaluate the relevance of the Life Cycle Analysis…
UNE inputs: maximum guarantee certification
La producción ecológica está experimentando un crecimiento, año tras año, situándose la superficie mundial en casi 75 millones de hectáreas. En los últimos cinco años, en España se incrementó un…
IFOAM – Organics International: 50 years of the organic movement
IFOAM – Organics International nace en 1972 en Versalles (Francia). Pioneros de la agricultura ecológica se reunieron y pusieron sobre la mesa la necesidad de coordinar los movimientos de agricultura…
OPTA Europe calls on the EU Commission to reconsider the sustainability labelling included in the ‘EU Sustainable Food System’ policy
At the occasion of the Policy Exchange “Organics in the future EU Sustainable Food System” the organic traders and processors expressed their request to the European Commission to foster the…
GOTS standards become more stringent
The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) has raised the bar on requirements for certified gins. In the textiles industry, cotton ginning refers to the machinery which removes stems, soil, burrs…
FDA to Redefine ‘Healthy’ As Leading CPG Brands Fail to Deliver Better Food
The FDA is issuing new guidelines on food products claiming to be ‘healthy.’ But new research finds a growing number of food companies are failing to make food healthier, despite…
OTB calls environmental labelling a ‘welcome tool’
The Organic Trade Board (OTB) says environmental labelling is the key to helping consumers make ‘more informed, sustainable and educated decisions at point of purchase’. The statement follows a webinar…
SA conference agenda: Organic versus the cost of living crisis
This year’s Organic Trade Conference, to be hosted by the Soil Association on 19 October, will consider the market performance of organic in the context of the cost of living…
CAAE presents its new legal and sustainable water certification
CAAE, entidad ecológica líder en Europa, ha incorporado a sus servicios la certificación de agua legal y sostenible, nueva norma que CAAE presenta coincidiendo con la celebración de Fruit Attraction.…
Sales of Fairtrade certified coffee grow by 5% in 2021, exceeding 22 million euros
Tomando café. Así es como millones de personas en todo el mundo empiezan el día. Y es que esta bebida que nos mantiene activos nos acompaña ya desde el desayuno,…
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