# Global Standards News [![image placeholder](https://global-standards.org/images/news/1x1-white.jpg "image placeholder")](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1604:australian-textile-artist-achieves-gots-certification&catid=14) ## [Australian textile Artist achieves GOTS certification](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1604:australian-textile-artist-achieves-gots-certification&catid=14) 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, organ… [Read full article](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1604:australian-textile-artist-achieves-gots-certification&catid=14) [![image placeholder](https://global-standards.org/images/news/1x1-white.jpg "image placeholder")](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1603:gots-moves-political-agenda&catid=14) ## [GOTS on Europe's political agenda](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1603:gots-moves-political-agenda&catid=14) 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 ranki… [Read full article](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1603:gots-moves-political-agenda&catid=14) [![image placeholder](https://global-standards.org/images/news/1x1-white.jpg "image placeholder")](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1602:spotonnpes&catid=14) ## [Spotlight on the use of NPEs](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1602:spotonnpes&catid=14) 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 t… [Read full article](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1602:spotonnpes&catid=14) [![image placeholder](https://global-standards.org/images/news/1x1-white.jpg "image placeholder")](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1601:us-government-endorses-gots&catid=14) ## [US GOVERNMENT ENDORSES GOTS](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1601:us-government-endorses-gots&catid=14) 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 p… [Read full article](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1601:us-government-endorses-gots&catid=14) [![image placeholder](https://global-standards.org/images/news/1x1-white.jpg "image placeholder")](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1600:news-sp-708&catid=14) ## [News until summer 2012](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1600:news-sp-708&catid=14) 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: [Read full article](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1600:news-sp-708&catid=14) [![image placeholder](https://global-standards.org/images/news/1x1-white.jpg "image placeholder")](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1812:deutsche-info-broschuere-von-have-you-cottoned-on-yet-biobaumwollanbau-im-vergleich&catid=14) ## [Deutsche Info-Broschüre von "Have you cottoned on yet" - Biobaumwollanbau im Vergleich](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1812:deutsche-info-broschuere-von-have-you-cottoned-on-yet-biobaumwollanbau-im-vergleich&catid=14) 03 October 2003 Pressemitteilung (zur sofortigen Veröffentlichung) Deutsche Broschüre der "Have you cottoned on?" Kampagne erschienen Ab sofort steht auf der Webseite des Global Organic Textile Standards (GOTS) auch die deutsche Fassung der Informationsbroschüre zum Download bereit. Sie… [Read full article](https://global-standards.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1812:deutsche-info-broschuere-von-have-you-cottoned-on-yet-biobaumwollanbau-im-vergleich&catid=14)