<div style="text-align: justify;">TOS
publisher, Gunnar Rundgren, invited as keynote speaker to the IFOAM
Certification conference on 15-17 November in Rome, has some thoughts
organic certification. The introduction of organic regulations has been
more significant. This has meant that many new certification bodies
have not bothered developing own standards. It is tragic that, despite
years of discussions about facilitating market access, harmonisation
and equivalence, so little progress has been made to date. There is no
way to turn the clock back to producer-controlled certification bodies.
The challenge for the certification industry is to keep the cost of
certification on a level where the added value of being certified is
considerably higher than the direct and indirect costs for
certification.<br></div><i>Fonte di informazione:</i> «The Organic Standard», n. 67, novembre, pp. 16-19
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