20 April 2023Textile Exchange has released its annual Material Change Insights Report, looking at the progress made by the fashion, textile, and apparel industry towards more sustainable materials sourcing. The report analyses data submitted by 424 companies – including brands, retailers, manufacturers and suppliers – through Textile Exchange’s Materials Benchmark for the
17 April 2023IOAS is looking to appoint a new position of Executive Assistant. The Executive Assistant will support the Executive Director, David Crucefix in a wide range of tasks relating to leadership and management of the IOAS team and implementation of its strategic plan. Day to day tasks will vary from providing
13 April 2023IOAS is inviting applications for an HR Administrator. The HR Administrator reports to the Business Director and is responsible for IOAS’s HR Policies, documents and procedures, recruitment and on-boarding, performance management, personnel development and training and general HR administration and reporting. Requirements A Degree/Diploma in Human Resources is essential At
04 April 2023March 29, 2023, IOAS suspended the accreditation of AsureQuality Ltd. for Textile Exchange – Responsible Animal Fiber Standards (Responsible Wool Standard 2.2 (2021), Responsible Mohair Standard 1.2 (2021), Responsible Alpaca Standard 1.0 (2021)) for the specific sub scope “Groups”. AsureQuality Ltd remain accredited under the COR, IFOAM and Textile Exchange
03 April 2023Lauren began her career with a Bachelor of Business Science in economics and honours for her thesis in environmental marketing. Since then, Lauren has accumulated over 20 years management experience in finance, marketing and business development, recruitment and human resources, governance and operations across three continents: Asia, the UK and
03 April 2023Textile Exchange has updated their list of banned organisations. The listed organisations may not be certified to any of the Textile Exchange standards for the duration of the ban. Expired bans are also listed so that they may be factored into risk assessments. List of Banned Organisations.
03 April 2023The Commission is has published a report which is the result of a project to collect information on potential fraud risks identified by Member State authorities and control methods to detect fraudulent and deceptive practices in the agri-food chain. This report is expected to be used by Member States’ authorities
21 March 2023Consolidated text: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1378 of 19 August 2021 laying down certain rules concerning the certificate issued to operators, groups of operators and exporters in third countries involved in the imports of organic and in-conversion products into the Union and establishing the list of recognised control authorities and
20 March 2023IOAS congratulate Lacon Quality Certification Pvt. Ltd. of India for their hard work and success in achieving their ISO/IEC 17065 accreditation through IOAS for the EU programme standard. Lacon Quality Certification Pvt. Ltd. are now ISO/IEC 17065 accredited for Regulation (EU) 2018/848 on organic production and labelling of organic products
15 March 2023The Global Organic Textile Standard have released GOTS Version 7.0, which features an expanded scope of environmental and social criteria while maintaining a standard that is practicable for industrial production and appropriate for a wide range of products. During the regular year-long revision process, international stakeholders with expertise in organic
