Resolution

WHEREAS the Canadian Organic Regime was developed to provide consumers assurance that products conform to internationally recognized organic production standards;

WHEREAS food products labeled as organic that leave Saskatchewan must conform to national standards set out in the Canadian Organic Regime.

WHEREAS Saskatchewan has not adopted the Canadian Organic Regime and products can be labelled and sold within the province as organic without conforming to any independently certified production standards;

BE IT RESOLVED that APAS lobby the Saskatchewan provincial government to adopt the Canadian Organic Regime to ensure that products labeled and sold as organic within the province conform to the nationally recognized production standards.