The General Principles and Management Standards and Permitted Substances List are available free of charge on the CFIA website. Hard copies may be obtained by calling 1-800-665-2472 (Canada only).

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again - Interpreting the Organic Standards - The Canadian Organic Standards (COS) were voluntary until 2009. They became mandatory when the Organic Products Regulations (OPR) were implemented in June 2009. Many meetings of the CGSB Committee on Organic Agriculture (TC) were held to revise the standards and make them fully applicable.