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European Organic Certification in South-East Asia @ Organicity Project
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European Organic Certification in South-East Asia @ Organicity Project

Organicity, a project that aims to promote high quality organic products and organic certification in South-East Asia, organized the “Discover Quality European Organic with Organicity” workshop on Friday, 27 November 2015 in Malaysia. The purpose of the workshop is to support the future needs of Asian markets for international organic certification and technical support for Organic food production.

Organicity Project, a 3-year project (2014-2017), serves as an informative and promotional project to grow the awareness of the organic products and European Organic Certification in South-East Asia, and also to support the trade development of the certified organic business member, under the management of the project leader, Bioagricoop s.c.r.l., an Italian non-profit organization since 1984.

organicity european organic certification in south east asia

Mr Riccardo Cozzo, the president of Bioagricoop, emphasized the 3 main goals of the Organicity project in his presentation :

1. To educate consumers in the aspect of the intrinsic characteristics of organic farming products,

2. To encourage more consumption of organic food based on the European organic certification with significant added value.

3. To motivate importers, distributors, and restaurateurs to the quality of European Organic Products in major retail stores.

organicity european organic certification in south east asia

To support the Organicity Project, Chef Jochen Kern (Project Manager of Berjaya University College of Hospitality) and Chef Federico Michieletto (President of Bocuse d’or Malaysia) prepared some international cuisine using the European certified organic products.

Our guests include Mario Sammartino (Ambassador of the Italian Embassy in KL), Dr Porsia (Italian Trade Commissioner), Mr KC Lim (ALIVE Group), Madam Selina Gan (CEO Opika), Mr Ong Kung Wai (Director of OAM), Loke Siew Foong (Managing Director of Radiant Whole Food), Eric Lim (Raintree Sustainable Produce), Chang Lay Hoon and Ling Mei Lee(JustLife), Rachael Tai (Director of JustLife) came to support Organicity Workshop at Samplings On The Fourteenth Restaurant in Berjaya Times Square KL.

organicity european organic certification in south east asia

The European Union has council regulations that control the organic production :

• 834/2007 on organic production and product label

• 889/2009 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of council regulation (EC) No 834/2007 on organic production and product labels.

• 1235/08 laying down detailed rules for implementation of council regulation (EC) No 834/2007 as regards the arrangements for imports of organic products from third countries.

organicity european organic certification in south east asia

Mr Riccardo had also explained the use of best environmental practices, biodiversity and to preserve natural resources are the main keys leading to the organic production value. Other aspects such as the farming process, the processing of organic food, and also the certification process will need to be evaluated in order to have organic products in Malaysia to be certified under the European Union Label, which is also called as «The Leaf» as per the logo design.

To get to know more about the Bioagricoop Organic Certification, please contact Ms Carla Gambini, the senior project manager via her email at carla.gambini@bioagricoop.it or you can reach Carla at its office number +39 051 6199753.

18 Comments

    Aliza Sara

    December 18, 2015 at 7:34 am

    Organic is always the best choice. Its also the healthier option 🙂

    rachell ho

    December 17, 2015 at 7:34 am

    always have a thing for organic food 🙂

    Sunshine Kelly

    December 17, 2015 at 7:34 am

    I love European cheese, I think the reason I put on weight recently is because all the cheese indulgence. I went to Cold Storage to buy more cheese last weekend. Diet hancur hahaha

    siennylovesdrawing

    December 17, 2015 at 7:34 am

    cool! organicity project! healthy products to consume for our better health and life 🙂
    cheers, siennylovesdrawing

    Kylie cre8tone

    December 17, 2015 at 7:34 am

    Organic food is always great!~ Cool project!

    Betty Liew

    December 17, 2015 at 7:34 am

    Organic food is healthier . Glad Berjaya Chef started prepare a healthy dish using the organic products. Thanks for sharing.

    Wilson Ng

    December 17, 2015 at 7:34 am

    Not a big fan of organic food but good to know about their product range. great info

    Isaac Tan

    December 17, 2015 at 7:34 am

    interesting. thanks for sharing

    cindy tong

    December 17, 2015 at 7:34 am

    i love organic food…it’s more healthy but sometime it can be too expensive …

    Rawlins GLAM

    December 16, 2015 at 7:34 am

    Eating organic is great but I hope the price will become cheaper as organic food is always expensive.

    Reia

    December 16, 2015 at 7:34 am

    Organice food are always awesome. Guaranteed to aid in healthy lifestyle.

    Jane

    December 16, 2015 at 7:34 am

    Organic food is good to maintain our health. Times for me to get some now.

    Miera Nadhirah

    December 16, 2015 at 7:34 am

    Organic food is yummy… but also a bit expensive… I guess we have to learn to work around it…

    Adeline

    December 15, 2015 at 7:34 am

    Organic product is good! It can helps to maintain healthy life. Interesting!

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  • Miriam

    December 15, 2015 at 7:34 am

    Very good! We need to eat more organic products! Not only is it good for our body but also for the environment

    Shivani

    December 15, 2015 at 7:34 am

    Never really knew about the brand until I read up on it- thank you so much for the share dear – will definitely take note 🙂

    sherry

    December 15, 2015 at 7:34 am

    wow don’t know of this until I read here. Interesting event to learn about their products too.

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