Australia to Postpone Organic Standards

"Today the Biological Farmers of Australia (BFA) (and subsidiaries Australian Certified Organic & Organic Growers of Australia), called on Standards Australia to postpone the development of an organic standard at the first meeting of the Standards Australia organic technical committee in Sydney.

"The development of an organic standard with Standards Australia will be a retrograde step which will undermine the existing self regulatory system in Australia and one that will encourage uncertified organic produce", said Scott Kinnear spokesperson and representative to the technical committee. "This is because Standards Australia has said they will remove the sections in the existing National Organic Standard (administered by AQIS) that mandate certification and labelling requirements. They do not have the capacity to mandate these key areas."

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