Organic Certification in the iPOPY Countries and Germany – Current Status and Future Challenges

The paper is part of the proceedings of an iPOPY seminar. Organic production has to be certified and labeled along the supply chain in order to maintain trust in organic premium products. Since January 1st 2009, organic certification in Europe is subject to the new Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of 28 June 2007. This regulation specifically excludes so-called mass catering operations. It is up to EU member states to apply national rules or private standards insofar as these comply with community law. The paper presents the state of the art and upcoming changes of organic certification of out-of-home catering in Germany with regard to Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Italy

Pengolahan Bisnis Catering Ummi Nisa Medan Berbasis Web

Catering Ummi Nisa is a business that runs its business in the field of food services in Medan. From a manual sales system by distributing flyers on the street, in community homes look less effective. With development of technology that is growing rapidly, internet technology has reliable every community, especially in sales and information. So much-needed changes to improve the ordering and sales system are communicative and informative. With this change researches have a goal to creat Ummi Nisa Catering website so that this business can grow more widely. With the customer website will be easier to find the information needed. Any product information and menu offered on Catering Ummi Nisa would be obtained on the website. In addition to customer information is also able to order Catering Online, so that sales Catering Ummi Nisa more effective and efficient in business. This is very beneficial to catering owner and customers.Keywords: Information System, Online, Sales, Food, Websit

Providing organic school food for youths in Europe - Policy strategies, certification and supply chain management in Denmark, Finland, Italy and Norway

In the proceedings of an iPOPY seminar, some results of the research project were presented. First of all, Anne-Kristin Løes and Benjamin Nölting give an overview of the iPOPY project and its first results. This outline of the holistic research approach helps locate the challenges of the supply side of POPY, some crucial aspects of which are analyzed in the following papers. Political strategies are highly relevant for changing the “politicized market” of public food procurement. Thorkild Nielsen, Niels Heine Kristensen and Bent Egbert Mikkelsen reflect on whether and how organic food in schools and kindergartens can be described as a part of an ecological modernization strategy in Denmark. They discuss how it has merged with more economically and technically approach in public catering policy. Organic production has to be certified and labeled along the supply chain in order to maintain trust in organic premium products. Since January 1st 2009, organic certification in Europe is subject to the new Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of 28 June 2007. This regulation specifically excludes so-called mass catering operations. It is up to EU member states to apply national rules or private standards insofar as these comply with community law. The paper of Carola Strassner presents the state of the art and upcoming changes of organic certification of out-of-home catering in Germany with regard to Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Italy. Finally, supply chains of organic school food have to be organised in a sustainable way in order to serve high quality food to pupils. Stefano Bocchi, Roberto Spigarolo, Marco Valerio Sarti, and Benjamin Nölting present a best practice case of controlled food chains (filiera controllata) from Italy, the European champion of organic school food. From the province and the city of Piacenza in the region of Emilia-Romagna, we can learn a lot about a short and certified organic food-chain, a wide range of regional and organic products provided through a shared logistic organisation among local partners, and specific tender procedures

Certification of public organic procurement in Denmark, Finland, Italy and Norway as compared to Germany

In the iPOPY project (innovative Public Organic food Procurement for Youth), one of the tasks was to map the challenges linked to the supply chains of organic food, and to which extent the participating countries have developed any form of certification of out-of-home food serving. For primary production and processing, regulations have been developed on the EU level. Norway, as a member of the EEA, is obliged to follow these EU regulations. However, the EU regulations on organic agriculture do not comprise catering, restaurants and other out-of-home food service. Hence, various countries have developed different systems to certify e.g. restaurants wanting to market their organic menus. This report describes the systems in Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway and Germany. Germany has been used as a reference, since this country is especially familiar to the first author of the report, Dr. Carola Strassner, due to former work and analyses. The report is based on information acquired from certification bodies and experts in each country by questionnaires communicated via e-mail, and subsequent telephone interviews. There is a great variation between the countries with respect to certification of (public) food serving. Denmark has a voluntarily system with a bronze, silver and gold medal assigned to increasing levels of organic food. Finland has no mandatory certification of public organic food serving, but a well developed voluntarily system with five levels assigning increasing shares of organic food. The system includes advice and a certificate to be used in marketing. In Italy, certification is not mandatory, but activities are going on to establish a voluntarily or mandatory system. In Norway and Germany, certification of public organic food serving is mandatory. The Italian experts interviewed welcomed future common standards in this field, whereas the other countries with better established systems did not see any need for change. With respect to school food service, certification of the organic food will imply some additional work. However, a certification will contribute to increase people‘s trust in the food service, and also inform the users and thereby communicate the efforts to increase the consumption of organic food

Westminster College: report from the Inspectorate (FEFC inspection report; 117/95 and 108/98)

Comprises two Further Education Funding Council (FEFC) inspection reports for the periods 1994-95 and 1997-98

Canterbury College: report from the Inspectorate (FEFC inspection report; 16/95 and 75/98)

Comprises two Further Education Funding Council (FEFC) inspection reports for the periods 1994-95 and 1997-98

Further Education Funding Council : circular : 98/06 : strategic plans including financial forecasts : 1997-98 to 1999-2000

"Provides information derived from an analysis of strategic planning information provided to the Council by institutions in July 1997" -- front cover