Organic foods are now regulated in Japan by the law of standardization and proper labelling of agricultural and forestry products (the JAS law).
In my presentation I will explain very briefly the outlines of JAS organic regulations and then how to export organic foods to Japan.
The regulations consist of JAS Standard, Criteria of organic operators and criteria of certification organization. For more details, please look at the English translation of home page of MAFF.(http://maff.go.jp).
The Japanese Government has an equivalency agreement with the 15 countries of the E.U.,
Australia and the U.S.A. The other countries have no equivalency agreement with Japan.
Organic operators in a country without equivalency agreement who want to export to Japan have to get JAS organic certification by a registered certification organization or registered foreign certification organization. A JAS organic operator must meet the technical criteria stipulated in MAFF notifications. I will explain what is required in my presentation.
Once you have been certified as a JAS organic operator, you have to affix the JAS organic label correctly. I will explain how to label your organic products to export to Japan. More details on
Quality Labelling Standard of Notification No.513,514,517 are provided in the home page of MAFF.
