title: The Reliability of Organic Certification: An Approach to Investigate the Audit Quality  
creator: Jahn, Gabriele
creator: Schramm, Matthias
creator: Spiller, Achim
subject:  Food security, food quality and human health
description: Increasing complexity and first scandals indicate that the current control structures for organic food is insufficient. The main challenges are different methods of implementation on the national level and the collaborative responsibility between the public and the private sector. Both often cause lacking clarity and disagreements. The following contribution focuses on instruments to enhance the quality of certification of organic food. Only a few of the suggested instruments have been included as necessary requirements yet. Given the risk of deficient quality assurance and at the same time increasing control costs, it seems urgent to trigger discussions on risk-oriented auditing and to improve the current certification system. 
date: 2005
type: Conference paper, poster, etc. 
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://orgprints.org/4378/4/4378-Jahn_etal_4p_revised-ed.pdf
identifier: Jahn, Gabriele; Schramm, Matthias and Spiller, Achim (2005) The Reliability of Organic Certification: An Approach to Investigate the Audit Quality. Researching Sustainable Systems - International Scientific Conference on Organic Agriculture, Adelaide, Australia, September 21-23, 2005. [ Unpublished, ]
relation: http://orgprints.org/4378/