GOTS News
Australian textile Artist achieves GOTS certification
03 July 2012
Turkish born artist Zuhal Kuvan-Mills is the first Australian Artist to be making Certified Organic Textile Art and is certified by NASAA (National Association Sustainable Agriculture, Australia) and GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard).
Kuvan-Mills is inspired by Australian sustainable, org...
GOTS on Europe's political agenda
26 June 2012
Upon invitation to the Copenhagen Fashion Summit conference in May organized by the Scandinavian fashion industry’s social and environmental initiative NICE, GOTS investigated government policy options for a sustainable fashion industry together with other stakeholder organizations and high ran...
Spotlight on the use of NPEs
11 June 2012
... in chemicals and related quality assurance measures in GOTS
The findings of the investigations launched by Greenpeace in their Dirty Laundry reports, as part of the current Detox campaign, demonstrate the urgent need to eliminate the use of hazardous chemical inputs in the manufacturing of...
US GOVERNMENT ENDORSES GOTS
30 May 2012
As widely reported in the U.S. media, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a policy memorandum in May 2011 on ‘Labelling of textiles that contain organic ingredients’. The memo clarifies that labelling of textile products as ‘organic’ requires both the use of textile fibres...
News until summer 2012
17 February 2010
July/August 2012 Please be invited to meet with GOTS representative for Germany, Switzerland and Austria and Marketing Project Manager Claudia Kersten, at the following fairs that include the exhibition of eco-textiles: