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The Organic Trade Association (OTA) is a membership-based business association that focuses on the organic business community in North America.OTA's mission is to promote ethical consumerism by promoting and protecting the growth of organic trade to benefit the environment, farmers, the public, and the economy.
The Organic Trade Association pushed hard for the new regulations, which the group said would promote consumer trust and ensure all competing companies would abide by the same rules.
The Organic Foods Production Association of North America (OFPANA) (now the Organic Trade Association), National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, the American Farm Bureau Federation, National Coalition for the Misuse of Pesticides (NCAMP), and Pesticide Action Network (PAN) were at the forefront of establishing a need for this ...
The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) is a trade association based in Maine, United States, which represents organic farmers, seed growers and seed suppliers. It is known primarily for its March 2011 initiation of a lawsuit against Monsanto Corporation to stop it from suing farmers who have been "contaminated" by their ...
Quality Assurance International (QAI) is a U.S.-based international organic certification company that is authorized by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as "a USDA-accredited certifying agent that operates globally to certify organic operations to National Organic Program standards."
While organic food accounts for about 1% of total food production worldwide, [50] the organic food sales market is growing rapidly with between 5 and 10 percent of the food market share in the United States according to the Organic Trade Association, [117] significantly outpacing sales growth volume in dollars of conventional food products.
The Organic Wool Factsheet of the Organic Trade Association (OTA) gives a detailed description of what does and does not constitute organic wool. "The O'Mama Report" [ 1 ] of the OTA identifies "land management, livestock management, scouring processes, spinning processes and dyeing processes" as key factors that determine whether a wool yarn ...
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