FOFCC news

FOFCC inspectors visit Taiwan, the treasure island, to carry out certification inspections

With the great assistance of our organisation's partner, Taiwan's renowned organic product certification body – the Formosa Organic Agriculture Development Association of Taiwan, on 14 May 2014, the Deputy Director of the FOFCC Technical Committee, in the capacity of a senior national organic product registered inspector, travelled in person for the first time to Taiwan, our country's precious island, in accordance with Chinese organic...
Laws and regulations

cnca published the 2014 new version of the Organic Product Certification Implementation Rules

Announcement No. 11 of 2014 of the cnca: ‘Announcement of the cnca on the Issuance of Implementation Rules for the Certification of Organic Products’   In order to further improve the organic product certification system, standardise organic product certification activities, and ensure the consistency and validity of such activities, in accordance with the ‘Certification Law of the People’s Republic of China...’.
Industry news

Chongqing port intercepts substandard imported organic products for the first time

    Recently, when processing the inspection application for a batch of goods declared as “organic pure cotton tampons” imported from Germany by a Chongqing company, the Chongqing Lianglu Cuntan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau found that the minimum packaging and labels of the goods bore the words “organic product” and the logo of a foreign certification body, but the consignee was unable to comply with the Organic...
FOFCC news

FOFCC's first batch of two-dimensional code organic anti-counterfeiting traceability labels launched on the market

    In recent years, China's organic industry has achieved rapid development. To promote the continuous and healthy development of organic production, starting from 1 March 2012, in accordance with the regulations of relevant authorities, organic product production enterprises shall, on the sold organic products or the smallest sales packaging of the products...
Industry news

Bhutan aims to become the first fully organic agricultural country

As a poor small country with a population of less than 700,000 on the southern slopes of the Himalayas, Bhutan has always been known for its emphasis on sustainable development, and once ranked eighth on the “World Map of Happiness”. Through the ban on the sale of insecticides and pesticides, and completely organic farming relying entirely on its own animal and agricultural waste as fertilizer, ...
Industry news

Seminar on China-UK Organic Agricultural Product Certification Mechanisms Held to Promote Mutual Recognition of Certification Results

Northeast Net, 21 March (Reporter Yin Lei) – The China-UK Organic Agricultural Product Certification Mechanism Seminar was held in Harbin on the 21st. Participating delegates held in-depth discussions on strengthening exchanges and cooperation between our province and British organic agricultural product certification bodies, actively promoting the mutual recognition of organic agricultural product certification results between the two sides, and...
FOFCC news

FOFCC was invited to provide technical support for the Shenyang Municipal Bureau of Quality Supervision organic certification training and exchange meeting.

On 20 March 2014, FOFCC was invited to attend the organic certification training and exchange meeting hosted by the Shenyang Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision. It dispatched two experienced inspectors as training lecturers to attend the event, along with certification management personnel from various county and district quality supervision departments in Shenyang and some certified enterprises in Shenyang...
Industry news

National People's Congress Deputy Zhu Taiqing: Promoting mutual trust in the certification results of organic products across the Taiwan Strait

   As a deputy to the National People's Congress from the Taiwan delegation representing the quality supervision system, aside from caring about quality development in the mainland, how to promote quality-related exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait has always been an issue pondered by Zhu Taiqing, Deputy Director-General of Qinghai Provincial Bureau of Quality Supervision. This year, his focus...