by Victoria Jofery | Dec 24, 2014 | General
At long last, we have an official discussion draft for the proposed update to the very important Chain of Custody (CoC) standard of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). This is the first, substantial update to this standard since 2007. Since that time, Chain of...
by Victoria Jofery | Dec 16, 2014 | General
Last week we wrote about the long-delayed update to the main Chain of Custody (CoC) standard of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). In our post, we call attention to the fact that 28,521 certified companies depend on the details of this standard for their daily...
by Victoria Jofery | Dec 7, 2014 | General
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is very proud of the fact that it’s program is among the most successful “green” certification standards in history. Evidence of this impressive fact is the “Facts and Figures” information, displayed...
by Victoria Jofery | Nov 21, 2014 | General
The US affiliate of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) posted a short article in their periodic newsletter yesterday. The article calls attention to the imminent release of the lasted update to the main FSC Chain of Custody standard (FSC-STD-40-004). This...
by Victoria Jofery | Nov 20, 2014 | General
We learned yesterday that FSC-IC took action to resolve the potentially serious flaw in their new Multi-site Chain of Custody (CoC) standard. Although we wrote about this just last week, and received a lot of response to our piece (thanks to all for that), it appears...
by Victoria Jofery | Nov 13, 2014 | General
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) published the latest update to its standard for Multi-site Chain of Custody certification (FSC-STD-40-003 v.2-0) earlier this fall. It became public during the busy time just before the General Assembly, when FSC was also making...