May/
June 2010
Volume 7
Number 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Cover The International Organic Marketplace: A Global Overview of Opportunities and Challenges By Denise Godinho
36
Enterprise
From Folk Tradition to Fair-Trade Fashion:
Indigenous Designs Brings Opportunity to
Impoverished Andean Communities
By Kat Schuett
42
Dialogue
Overcoming Obstacles in Exporting
from the United States
An interview with Bob Anderson of Sustainable Strategies
and Katherine DiMatteo of Wolf, DiMatteo + Associates,
Project Leaders for OTA’s Global Gap Analysis
COLUMNS
10 Processing
Going to Market with an Organic Co-Packer
By Ron Rash
14 Ingredients
Pumping Up Plant Proteins: Formulating for
Vegetarians, Vegans and “Flexitarians”
By Mark Crowell, CRC
20 Managing
One Year Later: A Practical Guide to the
Canada-U.S. Equivalency Agreement
By Matthew Holmes
DEPARTMENTS
6 Signature
8 Details
48 Innovations
53 Marketplace
54 Advertisers Index
EDITORIAL
ADVISORY BOARD
Bob Anderson
President
Sustainable Strategies
Bena Burda
President
Maggie’s Functional Organics
Christine Bushway
Executive Director
Organic Trade Association
Will Daniels
VP of Quality, Food Safety
& Organic Integrity
Earthbound Farm
Kim Burton Dietz
Human Resource & Regulatory
Compliance Manager
Smucker Quality Beverages
Harvey Hartman
Chairman and CEO
Hartman Group
Nancy Hirshberg
VP of Natural Resources
Stonyfield Farm
Tim Kapsner
Senior Chemist
Aveda
Grace Marroquin
President
Marroquin Organic International
Joe Montecalvo, Ph.D.
Professor, Food Science
California Polytechnic
State University
Mary C. Mulry, Ph.D.
Food Wise, Inc.
Kevin O’Rell
Sr. VP, Operations: R&D
Healthy Food Holdings
Howard-Yana Shapiro
VP of Agriculture & Global
Director of External Research
Seeds of Change/Mars Inc.
Arran Stephens
President
Nature’s Path
Jessica Walden
Technical Specialist
QAI
Bill Wolf
President
Wolf, DiMatteo + Associates
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ORGANIC PROCESSING
