Posted March 30th, 2012
There may have been some popping of corks in organic vineyards across the EU with the announcement that they can now create a product actually called ‘organic wine’. Eagle-eyed people looking for a certified product before now might have noticed that the only reference on the label was that the wine was ‘made from organically…
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Posted February 23rd, 2012
The agreement between the EU and the US to recognise each other’s organic standards, as revealed in just the last week, really is a pretty big deal. To those outside the organic sector, its probably just another dry trade agreement story. But for those who have a product to sell, in some cases it could…
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Posted October 20th, 2011
The IFOAM EU Group, the European arm of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, has sent a strong message to the European Commission on the co-existence of GM farming. We believe this was something that needed saying clearly to the law-makers, and needs saying over and over again, if needs be. From our perspective…
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Posted January 27th, 2011
Within the last few minutes it has been revealed that plans to remove the use of sodium nitrite and potassium nitrate from organic meat curing have (for the time being at least) been dropped by the EU.
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Posted March 31st, 2010
We finally have the official, ready-to-use version of the new EU organic logo! We’ve been waiting a while and many of our licensees have been on tenterhooks for this, because for new products it needs to be in use by July and that doesn’t leave a lot of lead time. This morning the…
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Posted March 25th, 2010
It was a good few weeks ago that we heard the winning entrant in the competition to choose an EU organic food logo had been chosen (the beginning of February, in actual fact). This logo is, by regulation, due to begin appearing on new organic products from July. That’s right, July this year. Unfortunately, we…
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Posted February 8th, 2010
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner in the EU organic logo competition! And we can breathe something of a sigh of relief (at least we are here at OF&G) that the champ is the designer we considered to be the only real contender. Here it is: The winning design was by German student,…
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Posted February 3rd, 2010
The day is nearly upon us. The day we will discover the one logo to rule them all. If you’ll excuse the slightly nerdy Lord of the Rings reference, I am, of course, referring to the EU organic logo. The results of the competition held to choose this hotly anticipated item of packaging decoration are…
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Posted January 7th, 2010
To say there have been ‘reservations’ regarding the EU competition to design a new Europe-wide, compulsory organic logo might be an understatement. We’ve expressed our own disappointment with the candidates we’re being asked to vote on*, but now there’s even some criticism from one of the judges who were asked to pick the final contenders;…
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Posted December 10th, 2009
Just as an addendum to the last post; the Facebook page for the EU organic logo competition, containing just some examples of the entries, makes for interesting viewing. It’s only a tiny fraction of the 3400 or so total hopefuls, but it at least gives some insight into some of the options we’re not being…
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