The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Strengthening Organic Enforcement (SOE) final rule requires that importers of organic products into the United States must be certified under the USDA...
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Following up on COTA's highly touted The State of Organics: Federal-Provincial-Territorial Performance Report 2017, we released our second State of Organics report, with important updates from our...
COTA leads the effort to provide estimates on the number of certified organic operators (producers, livestock operations and processors) and acreage for the Canadian organic sector. Annual Organic...
On October 15 and 16, 2018 COTA hosted our annual Organic Policy Conference and Parliament Day. We had a wonderful group of COTA Members and key industry stakeholders come together to share, learn and...
Tia Loftsgard, COTA's Executive Director, penned an opinion piece calling on the Federal Government to take responsibility as the owner of the Canada Organic logo: To sustain the growth of organics...
OTTAWA, September 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Canada Organic Trade Association (COTA) is proud to announce during this Organic Week (Sept. 8-16) that the Canadian organic market share has reached...
OTTAWA, August 24, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Canada Organic Trade Association (COTA) is delighted that government and industry are successfully collaborating to meet the 2020 deadline for updating...