Soil Association Standards

From the organic standpoint, early lambing is the least natural , partly because of the length of the housing period for the lambs and partly because the easiest and most reliable way to guarantee lamb growth indoors is to feed either concentrates or dried grass pellets. These are expensive and can only be fed to a certain level in the ration, as defined in the Soil Association Standards. 

Soil Association Standards (1992) Revision 5, Soil Association, Bristol. Stonehouse, D.P., Clark, E.A. Ogini, Y.A. (2001) Organic and conventional dairy farm comparisons in Ontario. Biological Agriculture and Horticulture, 19, 115-125. 

It is stated quite clearly in the Soil Association Standards (1992) that ... 

Table 7.1 EU Standards, UKROFS Standards and Soil Association Standards for the keeping of organic poultry. 

EU Standards for fixed houses EU Standards for mobile houses (not exceeding 150 m2) UKROFS Standards Soil Association Standards... 

Table 2.20 Soil Corrosivity Assessment Technique from the German Gas and Water Works Engineers Association Standard (DVGW GW9)...

Soil Association Organic Standard (2001) Organic farming, food quality and human health. A review of the evidence. Soil Association, Bristol, UK... 

Soil Association (1997). Standards for Organic Food and Farming, Bristol. 

Numerous studies have compared food produced according to the organic standards with conventionally produced food in attempts to elucidate whether different farming methods result in different effects on human health. Several ministries and other organisations have organised reviews of these studies for example, those by Woese ef al. (1997), O Doherty Jensen etal. (2001), Bourn and Prescott (2002), Food Standards Agency (2002), Soil Association (2002), Williams (2002), AFSSA (2003), BMVEL (2003), Kouba (2003), hotter (2003) andMagkos etal. (2003). 

Table 2.1 Summary of first organic standards published by Soil Association (source Soil Association...

Voluntary standards and inspection systems began to develop independently in parts of Europe, the US and Australia. Their growth and development were organic in themselves, primarily driven by the producers and concerned consumers. Many of the early certification programmes developed as producer/consumer groups and some (Soil Association, California Certified Organic Farmers) retain this balance today. 

Soil Association publishes first Organic Standards... 

Annex I outlines the principles of organic production at farm level and these principles are further amplified through the United Kingdom Register of Organic Food Standards (UKROFS). The standards of individual certification bodies such as the Soil Association contain further requirements. Annex II is split into two sections. Section A deals with materials and products for use with soil conditioning and fertilisation while Section B... 

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