MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_01C9F006.F97E3E00" This document is a Single File Web Page, also known as a Web Archive file. If you are seeing this message, your browser or editor doesn't support Web Archive files. Please download a browser that supports Web Archive, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. ------=_NextPart_01C9F006.F97E3E00 Content-Location: file:///C:/63796639/USCanadaOrganicAgreement061809.htm Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" US and Canada Reach Organic Equivalency Agreement

TRADE ALERT

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US and Canada Reach Organ= ic Trade Agreement

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(June 18, 2009)

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The Deputy Secretary of Agriculture recently announced that the US and Canada h= ave reached an “equivalency agreement” on the labeling of organic products.  The agreement is se= t to go into effect June 30, 2009. 

 

Producers and processors that are certified to the National Organic Program (NOP) standards by the US Department of Agriculture accredited certifying agent do not have to become certified to the Canada Organic Product Regulation (COPR) standards in order for the products to be represented as organic in Canada = and vice versa.  The USDA organic = seal and the Canada Organic Biologique logo may be used on certified products fr= om both countries. 

 

A cop= y of the USDA news release can be found at: http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!u= t/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=3Dtrue&contentid=3D2009/06/0212.xml<= /a>

 

More information on this new agreement can be found at: www.ams.usda.gov/nop.

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A questions and answers document can be found at: http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=3DS= TELPRDC5077525&acct=3Dnopgeninfo

 

 

 

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