The Organic Malaysia (OM) Mark

STATUS: PENDING DEVELOPMENT OF ORGANIC MALAYSIA MARK
EXPECTED LAUNCH: DECEMBER 2007

The OAM certification mark, initially envisioned to be issued for OAM certification, has now been revised to be a common organic market mark. Instead of launching another certification mark representing yet another organic quality assurance system, amongst the existing plethora of organic certification marks, OAM decided on issuing a common market mark for all things organic, domestically produced or imported into the country. A common market mark, OAM believes will ease market communications about the authenticity of organic claims, facilitate concerted public education or campaigns to guide consumers to buy organic by looking for that one mark instead of the many different certification marks from all over the world.

The OAM mark will be available for use by registered operators of the OAM domestic organic assurance programme as well as any other certified operator in Malaysia, e.g. by SOM or a foreign CB. It will also be available for use by handlers (importers) and retailers on certified final products for sale in Malaysia. Interested users have to register their intended use, attend training on the conditions for use, sign an agreement and pay a fee to support a market surveillance regime, including complaints investigations.

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OAM stands for Organic Alliance Malaysia. It is a membership-based business association that seeks to promote and protect the organic industry in Malaysia. In short, we like everybody in Malaysia to think organic, grow organic and use organic.

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The Star Metro, 4 Oct. 2007: Justlife aims to promote eating organic produce

THERE is a lot one can do to preserve the environment. One is not expected to start a compost heap at home or change light bulbs to energy saving ones.

The simple act of buying organic vegetables or using biodegradable utensils is just some of the many little things you can do to save the environment.

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Organic Facts

5 of 20 Good Reasons To Buy Organic

Eliminate use of growth hormones, antibiotics and genetically engineered drugs
and feeds in livestock. In Australia there remain 12 antibiotics that can be used as growth
promoters. More than 500 000kg of antibiotics were used each year in the 1990s. Resistant
bacteria such as Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are known to spread via the food
chain (Collignon, 2003).

Source: BFA