Eco Fashion World

While NGO’s and companies around the world are working hard to make sure that the eco fashion you buy, is really ethical, some organizations harm this work. Last year Organic Exchange sent out communications about a fraudulent certification organization calling itself GOT Certificate Germany. They had been fraudulently offering to certify textile products to the OE and GOTS standards.

This "organization" is at it again, now operating under the name Eucert, and still with the same fraudulent website. They no longer refer to the OE standards, but they still talk about "Gotcertificate". Organic Exchange has evidence that they attempted to issue transaction and scope certificates to companies in Turkey. They urge everyone to take extra care to be sure that the organic products you are buying and selling are properly certified. Organic Exchange has published the 'Essential Guide to Organic Textile Certification', which will give more detailed guidance on how to ensure the organic integrity of the products you buy. Please download a free copy here.

In its ongoing efforts to strengthen the integrity of the organic cotton industry and the validity of their own standards, Organic Exchange has developed a new accreditation system for the OE 100 and OE Blended standards. Until now they did their own internal reviews of those certification bodies who applied to certify to OE standards, but they have now moved this important process to third-party accreditation bodies. These bodies have the expertise and neutrality that will add even greater rigor to the certifications. OE has also added further requirements for their certifiers and the accreditation process has been closely aligned with that of GOTS, thereby keeping consistency and efficiency in the system, and minimizing costs.

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