[MPWG] Sustainable Service Marks?

[brink at sonic.net]

	Hi Steven, 

	The FairWild Certification (and mark) is applicable globally
although there are no wild herbal products yet in the U.S. market
with the label. We hope to have a couple of FairWild Certified
products in the market by end of 2008, but none of these so far will
originate in the U.S. 

	While social accountability and fair trade are the primary focus of
the FairWild Standards, in order to ensure sustainability in the wild
collection system, FairWild was developed as an additional module to
the ecologically focused management criteria defined in the
aforementioned ISSC-MAP. This standard defines guidelines and
provides tools to the collectors and producers for the planning and
implementation of a sustainable resource management system – a
guarantee for constant and reliable supply of raw materials for
industry and traders. Under the FairWild Standards, organic
certification of the wild collection practices is also accepted as
“minimum demonstration of ecologically sound production
practices.” Our expectation is that entry into FairWild can utilize
organic certification for wild crops initially as only a minimum
indicator with the goal of reaching conformance to the ISSC-MAP over
time, perhaps over a few years time. 

	Info on FairWild certification is available at:
http://www.fairwild.org [1]. Info on ISSC-MAP is available at:
http://www.floraweb.de/proxy/floraweb/map-pro [2]. And further
information on both is available from the independent inspector and
certifier IMO (http://www.imo.ch [3]) who conducts audits at wild
collection sites for organic wild, FairWild, and ISSC-MAP
conformance. We have worked with our raw material supplier and IMO at
two wild collection sites in particular for combined organic wild (EU
and NOP), FairWild inspections, and preliminary ISSC-MAP audits. 

	Josef 
 On Thu 02/ 7/08 10:15 AM , Steven Foster sfoster at stevenfoster.com
sent:
  Does any one know of any current service marks or trade marks
designating sustainably harvested wild herbs in use in North America?

 Thanks, Steven Foster 
   Steven Foster Steven Foster Group, Inc. P.O. Box 191 Eureka
Springs, AR 72632 
 Office Phone: 479-253-2629 Fax: 479-253-2693 NEW CELL PHONE NUMBER:
479-981-2136  AS OF 9/27/07 e-mail: sfoster at stevenfoster.com [4]
website: www.stevenfoster.com [5] blog: www.stevenfoster.com/herbalog
[6] 
  RECENT BOOK FROM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC!   Desk Reference to Nature's
Medicine. By Steven Foster and Rebecca L. Johnson. 2006. National
Geographic, Washington, D.C. Hardcover. 416 pp. 200 photographs, 150
botanical drawings and 159 maps. ISBN: 0-7922-3666-1. $40.00. A New
York Public Library 2007 "Best of Reference."


Links:
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[1] http://www.fairwild.org
[2] http://www.floraweb.de/proxy/floraweb/map-pro
[3] http://www.imo.ch
[4]
http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose(\'sfoster at stevenfoster.com\',\'\',\'\',\'\')
[5] http://www.stevenfoster.com
[6] http://www.stevenfoster.com/herbalog
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