This brochure was prepared in FY 2010 by “Commissioned project on improvement of reliability of the Organic JAS” of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. When the Japanese Agricultural Standards (JAS) certified business entities of organic plants use substances in compliance with JAS, how they judge such substances to be compliant or non-compliant depends on those entities and/or registered certifying organizations. The judgments for the same substances are sometimes divided into being compliant and non-compliant. The Commissioned project on improvement of reliability of the Organic JAS is a multiple-year project. The aim of the project is that substances judged to be compliant are listed in the name of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, in order to enable production process managers to select substances without another confirmation of such substances.
The FY 2010 project, as a previous step of the entire project, focused on listing the standards for evaluations and specific procedures of substances, in order to enable the list to be made use of in the subsequent fiscal years.
