by Victoria Jofery | Nov 16, 2016 | General
By far the most consistent theme explored in this space has been the persistent and frustrating insistence on the part of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) to complicate and confuse the subject of supply chain traceability. Our principal tool for supply chain...
by Victoria Jofery | Dec 2, 2013 | General
While I was, like most Americans, taking some time away from work last week to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday, the FSC Board of Directors held its 64th meeting in Nicaragua and appear to have taken some action on the ILO Self-Declaration issue. A quick search tells...
by Victoria Jofery | Jul 14, 2013 | General
Almost a year ago, the FSC Policy and Standards unit (PSU) released a new procedures document (FSC-PRO-20-001 v.1-0) which was intended to guide the implementation of one of the new requirements inserted into the latest version of its principal Chain of Custody (CoC)...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 26, 2013 | General
An email was circulated today from FSC Policy and Standards Unit (PSU). It further extends the deadline in for signing of the troublesome self-declaration document included in the FSC Chain of Custody standard (Annex B of PRO-20-001). As of today, the deadline is...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 21, 2013 | General
Last August I wrote a blogpost entitled FSC and the ILO. It attempted to summarize and call some attention to a very strange, but important conflict that has arisen between FSC-IC and a group of (mostly) US companies over some apparently minor details of language in...