The Soil Association, the UK-based environmental membership charity, has appointed Rob Haward to the position of operations director on its new independent Standards Board.

The board has been created to maintain and develop all of the group's organic standards, such as airfreight, the mandatory EU logo and the development of standards for glasshouse production.

'I am delighted to have been appointed. I hope my input will be of value to the Soil Association in enabling them to continue to lead the way on standards development,' said Mr Haward, operations director at Riverford Organic Vegetables. 'This process is essential in order to protect consumers, while balancing the technical constraints of consumers.'

The standards board is made up of 10 members, including an independent chair, three lay members, three stakeholder representatives and three chairs of standard committees.

'I welcome Rob to the standards board,' said chair of the board Anna Bradley. 'We can now develop the Soil Association standards with the vigour, transparency and accountability expected of such an organisation and its public interest responsibilities.'

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