A moroccan company will be soon under audit to renewal its certificate
02/04/2012The moroccan company targeting sardines and mackerels will undergo a new full assessment audit between the 3rd and the 5th of April
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Friend of the Sea spotlighted in TIME Magazine
02/04/2012riend of the Sea is featured in this week’s issue of Time (British Isles edition).
Read moreAnother Italian GDO is near to sell its private label products under FoS logo
29/03/2012Next audit will be performed on the 16th April 2012
Read moreA spanish fleet targeting tuna already FoS certified is undergoing a new audit in the Indian Ocean
26/03/2012The Spanish fleet has decided to extend the validity of its certificate to the Indian Ocean products so that in the following days they willbe subject to a new full assessment audit in Madagascar
Read moreRe assessment audit at the blue mussels farm of Spring Bay Seafoods in Tasmania
04/03/2012SGS will run a new full assessment audit at the aquaculture plant in Tasmania to check they are still in compliance with FoS criteria. The audit will be run on March the 13th and 14th
Read moreA fishermen cooperative will undergo a full assessment audit in the North Sea.
28/02/2012The audit will be run at the end of March. The cooperative is targeting Cod, Dab, Sole, Turbot, Brill and North Sea Crab
Read moreSinomega is the first Chinese manufacturer of Omega-3 Fish Oils to achieve FoS certification
27/02/2012SINOMEGA first Friend of the Sea Omega-3 in China
Read moreFoS becomes international sustainability standard for OMEGA-3
02/02/2012FOS becomes sustainability standard for OMEGA-3
Read moreRenewal full assessment audit for fishoil producer Omega Protein
19/01/2012Omega protein is undergoing a new full assessment audit in order to renew its certification against FoS criteria applicable to menhaden fisheries and fihoil and omega 3 refining.
Read moreAn american fleet targeting sardines, squids and mackerels will soon undergo a full assessment audit.
19/01/2012The audit qill be run in march by SGS America with the aim to check the conformity of the fleet against FoS wild catch criteria
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