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<P align=justify><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">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.</SPAN></P>
<P align=justify><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">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.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P align=justify><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Info on FairWild certification is available at: <A href="http://www.fairwild.org">http://www.fairwild.org</A>. Info on ISSC-MAP is available at: <A href="http://www.floraweb.de/proxy/floraweb/map-pro">http://www.floraweb.de/proxy/floraweb/map-pro</A>. And further information on both is available from the independent inspector and certifier IMO (<A href="http://www.imo.ch">http://www.imo.ch</A>) 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.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<B>On Thu 02/ 7/08 10:15 AM , Steven Foster sfoster@stevenfoster.com sent:<br>
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