by Victoria Jofery | Oct 29, 2015 | General
After nearly three years of work, FSC is about to close the second discussion period on Draft 2 of the latest version of its main Chain of Custody standard (FSC-STD-40-004 v.3-0). This latest draft was released on August 31, 2015 and MixedWood posted a brief article...
by Victoria Jofery | Aug 31, 2015 | General
After more than 2 years of hard work, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) released a first discussion draft of its version 3 update to the important Chain of Custody standard late last year. We commented on that draft several times last winter (here, here, &...
by Victoria Jofery | Jun 22, 2015 | General
If MixedWood is defined by one idea, it would be this: Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) will always be hard. So SFM certification programs – the tools we use to bringing SFM products to market – should not make it harder. Chain of Custody (CoC)...
by Victoria Jofery | May 1, 2015 | General
We have promised several times recently to write more about the FSC Controlled Wood revision process. Despite keen interest (and a lot of good intentions), this project kept getting postponed. One very good reason is the sheer complexity of the topic. But that...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 26, 2015 | General
Readers will, by now, be very aware of the important update and revision that FSC has begun for its central Chain of Custody (CoC) standard – FSC-STD-40-004. If you have not yet contributed to the discuss and provided FSC with your own feedback, we urge you to...