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EXHIBIT 31.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
EXCHANGE ACT RULE 13a-14

I, Gordon Ellis, President and Chief Executive Officer, certify that:

(1)  I have reviewed this Form 10-QSB of International Absorbents Inc.;

(2)  Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make
the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

(3)  Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects
the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the small
business issuer as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

(4)  The small business issuers other certifying officer(s) and I are
responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures
(as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the small
business issuer and have:



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| | (a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such
disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision,
to ensure that material information relating to the small business
issuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by
others within those entities, particularly during the period in which
this report is being prepared;



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| | (b) Evaluated the effectiveness of the small business issuers
disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our
conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and
procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on
such evaluation; and



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| | (c) Disclosed in this report any change in the small business
issuers internal control over financial reporting that occurred during
the small business issuers most recent fiscal quarter (the small
business issuers fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report)
that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially
affect, the small business issuers internal control over financial
reporting; and

(5)  The small business issuers other certifying officer(s) and I have
disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over
financial reporting, to the small business issuers auditors and the audit
committee of the small business issuers board of directors (or persons
performing the equivalent functions):



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| | (a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the
design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which
are reasonably likely to adversely affect the small business issuers
ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information;
and



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| | (b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or
other employees who have a significant role in the small business
issuers internal control over financial reporting.

Date: December 10, 2003

/s/ Gordon Ellis
Gordon Ellis
President and Chief Executive Officer

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