A-20.03, r. 1 - Regulation respecting reserved designations

Section 5 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

5. Notwithstanding subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph of section 1, pending adoption of the Guidelines for the Production, Processing, Labelling and Marketing of Organically Produced Foods, to obtain recognition of a designation attributed as an attestation of an organic method of production, a product must comply with a specification manual whose standards are at least as stringent as those set forth in the Basic Standards of Organic Agriculture and Food Processing of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM).

(Those standards are available from IFOAM General Secretariat, Ökozentrum Imsbach D-66636, Tholey-Theley, Germany.)

M.O. 1997, s. 5.