by Victoria Jofery | Oct 15, 2012 | General
I saw an email update today from the FSC International Policy and Standards Unit (PSU) staff. It was issued informally (by email) and meant as a clarification of the Advice Note issued last week (see my 10/2 post). The upshot seems to be that FSC will allow new...
by Victoria Jofery | Oct 11, 2012 | General
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by Victoria Jofery | Oct 11, 2012 | General
A strange and increasingly frustrating conflict is emerging within the FSC community in the US. It concerns the implementation of some new “social elements” in the latest version of the Chain of Custody standard (FSC-STD-40-004 v.2-1). This latest...
by Victoria Jofery | Oct 2, 2012 | General
The FSC international policy and standards unit (FSC PSU) issued a “PSU Advice” to Certification Bodies late yesterday. It is meant to address a pending crisis among a number of large US companies who are objecting to the language a required...
by Victoria Jofery | Jun 1, 2012 | General
20 years? Katie Fernholtz and Jeff Howe just posted an interesting and worthwhile commentary on the Dovetail, Inc. website. It’s worth a read: http://www.dovetailinc.org/content/beyond-certification I’m note quite sure which anniversary they are...