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</span> </a></ul></div></div></aside><div class="region-content usa-width-three-fourths"><div><div class="region region-content"><div class="block block-system block-system-main-block"id=block-mainpagecontent><article class="node node--type-rule-regulation node--view-mode-full"about=/rules-regulations/organic/nosb/subcommittees data-history-node-id=5871 role=article><div class=node__content><div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The NOSB’s six Subcommittees - Crops; Livestock; Handling; Materials; Compliance, Accreditation, and Certification; and Policy Development - meet regularly between public meetings to develop proposals and discussion documents for the full NOSB’s consideration. Additionally, the Executive Committee, a subset of the full NOSB, comprised of the 3 NOSB Officers and each of the Subcommittee Chairs, meets once a month to discuss topics related to the Boards work. The notes for the Executive Committee and each of the Subcommittee will be updated once a month during the last week of the month.<ul><li xmlns:fn=http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions xmlns:xdt=http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-datatypes xmlns:xs=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema><a href=/sites/default/files/media/SubcmmteAssignments2021.pdf> Subcommittee Assignments (2021) (pdf) </a><li xmlns:fn=http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions xmlns:xdt=http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-datatypes xmlns:xs=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema><a href=/rules-regulations/organic/nosb/subcommittees/executive> Executive Committee </a><li xmlns:fn=http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions xmlns:xdt=http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-datatypes xmlns:xs=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema><a 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