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Florverde® Sustainable Flowers standard updated!

Bogotá D.C., 23 January 2015 - We're proud to present the latest version, 6.0, 6.0-1 of Florverde Sustainable Flowers standard as well as other important documents carried out along 2014 by our Technical Committee.

At the moment these documents can be found in Spanish at the moment at The Standard section in our website. For English versions please stay in touch, we will notice when it is ready!

The updated documents are as follows:

Florverde® standards for sustainable flowers and ornamentals production
General regulations for Florverde® Sustainable Flowers certification
Requirements and criteria list to accomplish Florverde® standard
Internal Control System verification list

Please don't hesitate to pass on this information to whom it may concern and everyone who is involved in the implementation, verification and accomplishment processes of our standard.

If you have any question about these updates please leave us your comments below and we'll get back to you!

Sincerely yours,

Technical and Administrative Secretariat

Florverde® Sustainable Flowers

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Roses, roses, roses - FSF certified even better!

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RedES-CAR Memories

RedES-CAR spotlights! This is Luis Fernando Nieto from AgroIndustrial Don Eusebio flower company . He once thought it was a good idea to think sustainable and check out what has been producing losings to his company and how they can solve that: figuring out what's wrong among the supply chain and how they can make the difference to their annual savings achieving a Cleaner Production Program . Wanna see what they will achieve? have a watch! Interested on how certified flower farms can make the difference? check for us on Linkedin , Twitter , Facebook and Pinterest and visit our website .

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