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July 19, 2007 - Taking Wise Action to Help Protect Organic, by Patricia Dines, West County Gazette
Scary headlines and inaccurate articles are clouding consumers ability to understand what's really going on right now. I wrote this article to help readers understand what the latest news on organics really means.
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July 23, 2007 - Going organic: Demand for dairy goods from farms that avoid antibiotics and growth hormones is soaring, and consumers are willing to pay the price, George Raine, Chronicle Staff Writer, A-1 |
...Sales of organic milk are climbing in California and the nation as the organic industry steps up its marketing of farming that eschews antibiotics, synthetic hormones and genetic engineering. ...In May, 2.4 million gallons of organic milk were sold in California, a 19.4 percent increase from the year before. During the same period, total California milk production increased only about 3 percent. Organic production still pales compared with the 60 million gallons of milk sold in the state each month. |
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July 19 - Taking Wise Action to Help Protect Organic, by Patricia Dines, West County Gazette |
PD NOTE: Scary headlines and inaccurate articles are clouding consumers ability to understand what's really going on right now. I wrote this article to help readers understand what the latest news on organics really means. Click here to get the straight facts. |
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July 16 - Can Organic Farming Save the World?, E magazine, July/August 2007, Reporting by Roddy Scheer |
New studies show that organic farming could mean more produce, not less, in developing countries. A recent study in the journal Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems shows that organic farming can yield up to three times as much food as conventional farming in both developed and developing countries. The findings contradict arguments that organic farming is not as efficient as conventional agriculture that makes use of environmentally harmful synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. Model estimates indicate that organic methods could produce enough food on a global per capita basis to sustain the current human population, and potentially an even larger population, without increasing the agricultural land base," researchers wrote in the journal article. They analyzed 293 different previous studies on yields from organic farming to come to their surprising conclusions. We were struck by how much food the organic farmers would produce," says the study's lead author Ivette Perfecto of the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment. "My hope is that we can finally put a nail in the coffin of the idea that you can't produce enough food through organic agriculture." PD NOTE: E magazine is a great way to keep up on a variety of environmental issues, including ways to be more ecological in your daily life. |
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July 15 - Food-labeling effort gains new momentum, By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Writer |
Shoppers are in the dark about where much of their food comes from despite a five-year-old law requiring meat and other products to carry labels with their country of origin. That soon may change. Reports of tainted seafood from China have raised consumer awareness about the safety of imported food and many of the law's most powerful opponents have left Congress. "The political dynamic is such that there's just no getting around it," said Colin Woodall, director of legislative affairs for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. The livestock group has opposed a mandatory labeling program. The Agriculture Department never put in place the labeling requirement because then-majority Republicans repeatedly delayed it, most recently to 2008. The law's leading opponents are grocery stores and large meatpacking companies, many of whom mix U.S. and Mexican beef, along with other businesses involved in getting products to supermarket shelves. They say the tracking and the paperwork needed to comply with the law is too burdensome and would cause them to raise prices. ...The labeling requirement, popular with small, independent ranchers who sell their own products, applies to certain cuts of beef, lamb, pork, as well as to peanuts, fruits and vegetables. Processed foods are exempt. So are restaurants and other food service establishments. The labeling program was not delayed for seafood. The former chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, wanted it to promote his state's lucrative fishing industry. House supporters of the labeling law are working to make sure it goes into effect next year. Their job will be easier because several lawmakers &emdash; mostly Texas Republicans concerned about their state's livestock industry &emdash; will not be around to block it. ... Congress plans hearings this week on whether the Food and Drug Administration can ensure the safety of the nation's food supply. In the wake of increased U.S. complaints about tainted Chinese products, the Chinese government late Friday said it has suspended imports of chicken feet, pig ears and other animal products from seven U.S. companies. Beijing claimed the American meat had contaminants. The spotlight on federal oversight is adding momentum to a renewed push by consumer groups to put the labeling law in place. "When consumers hear about all these things in China, their tendency is to avoid things from China," said Chris Waldrop of the Consumer Federation of America. "But they can't because we don't have country of origin labeling, so they are left in the supermarket to their own devices." ... But Regina Hildwine, director of food labeling and standards for the Grocery Manufacturers Association, says the labels will be "additional noise" on crowded packaging. |
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June 29 - Feds say seafood farmed in China tainted, AP |
WASHINGTON -- Farmed seafood has joined tires, toothpaste and toy trains on the list of tainted and defective products from China that could be hazardous to a person's health. Federal health officials said Thursday they were detaining three types of Chinese fish -- catfish, basa and dace -- as well as shrimp and eel after repeated testing turned up contamination with drugs unapproved in the United States for use in farmed seafood. The officials said there have been no reports of illnesses nor do the products pose any immediate health risk. They stopped short of ordering a ban on the fresh and frozen seafood. The Food and Drug Administration announcement was the latest in an expanding series of problems with imported Chinese products that seemingly permeate U.S. society. Beyond the fish, federal regulators have recently warned consumers about lead paint in toy trains, defective tires and toothpaste made with diethylene glycol, a toxic ingredient more commonly found in antifreeze. All the products were imported from China. China, meanwhile, insisted Thursday that the safety of its products was "guaranteed," making a rare direct comment on spreading international fears over tainted and adulterated exports. FDA officials said the level of the drugs in the seafood was low. The FDA isn't asking stores or consumers to toss any of the suspect seafood. |
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June 27 - China shuts 180 food factories for using illegal chemicals, AP |
China has closed 180 food factories after inspectors found industrial chemicals being used in products from candy to seafood, state media said Wednesday. The closures came amid a nationwide crackdown on shoddy and dangerous products launched in December that also uncovered use of recycled or expired food, the China Daily said. Formaldehyde, illegal dyes, and industrial wax were found being used to make candy, pickles, crackers and seafood, it said, citing Han Yi, an official with the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, which is responsible for food safety. "These are not isolated cases," Han, director of the administration's quality control and inspection department, was quoted as saying. Han's admission was significant because the administration has said in the past that safety violations were the work of a few rogue operators, a claim which is likely part of a strategy to protect China's billions of dollars (euros) of food exports. International concerns over China's food safety problems ballooned this year after high levels of toxins and industrial chemicals were found in exported products. ...Meanwhile, another regulating agency, China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce, said it _*closed 152,000 unlicensed food manufacturers and retailers last year for making fake and low-quality products. It also banned 15,000 tons of "unqualified food" from entering the market because it failed to meet national standards. |
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May 27 - Organic recipe for success, By Michael Coit, The Press Democrat |
'Controlled growth' and 'a great product' have Alvarado Street ready to move into larger Petaluma building, double output ...From its beginnings three decades ago in the corner of a Santa Rosa warehouse, the employee-owned bakery has risen to become a leader in the nation's organic whole grain bread market and now generates nearly $22 million in annual revenues. Alvarado also has been at the forefront in Sonoma County's development as a center for specialty food production. Notably, the company helped Amy's Kitchen get its start. "It all comes down to the same thing: A good product. Alvarado bread is a great product," said Andy Berliner, owner of Amy's Kitchen, a Santa Rosa company that has become a national leader in frozen and packaged organic food. Baking natural bread that tastes good has been Alvarado's recipe for success. Alvarado uses wheat sprouts rather than flour to make bread. Organic wheat berries are soaked in filtered water until they sprout, then ground into the dough that is the base for Alvarado's breads and other products. ....Today, Alvarado is the nation's fourth-largest worker-owned cooperative, in revenues. ...A cooperative is a not-for-profit business where each worker has a say in how the business is run. They earn wages and a share of profits not needed for reinvestment in the business. ...Over the decades, Alvarado's work force has grown from five employees to 121 with daily production rising from 150 to 40,000 loaves. |
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May 1 - FDA's food shipment inspections lagging, By Alexei Barrionuevo, New York Times |
Early in the 20th century, the safeguarding of food at American ports often amounted to inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration prying open containers of molasses or sugar and examining them for mold or insect parts. The FDA has come a way since then. But not much more. Last year, inspectors sampled just 20,662 shipments out of more than 8.9 million that arrived at American ports. China, which in one decade has become the third-largest exporter of food, by value, to the United States, sent 199,000 shipments, of which less than 2 percent were sampled, former officials with the agency said. Now, as FDA inspectors travel to China to investigate the source of contaminated pet food that has killed at least 16 dogs and cats and sickened thousands of others, critics in Washington are warning that the agency is woefully understaffed and underfinanced to keep America's food supply safe. "The public thinks the food supply is much more protected than it is," said William Hubbard, a former associate commissioner who left in 2005 after 27 years at the agency. "If people really knew how weak the FDA program is, they would be shocked." Globalization and new manufacturing capabilities have changed the makeup of the food that Americans put on their table. Food processors in the United States are buying a greater number of ingredients from other countries, becoming more of an assembler in the nation's food supply chain. "With globalization, American food processors are turning to less-developed countries to get food ingredients because they can get them so much more cheaply," Hubbard said. |
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U.S. congressional leaders on Wednesday threatened to make sweeping changes to the Bush administration's food safety system in light of fresh concerns over contaminated pet food. A key U.S. House leader said she might "zero out" the salaries of some Food and Drug Administration officials on because of recent food safety failings that have included bagged spinach and peanut butter. And in the Senate, the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee called for a comprehensive audit of the U.S. food safety system "to determine how to remedy breakdowns in the system." ... "I am concerned about the marked increase in cases of adulteration of food over the past six months," wrote Harkin, an Iowa Democrat. "From human food-borne illness cases caused by microbial pathogens in spinach, tomatoes and peanut butter to kidney failure in companion animals caused by the chemical melamine in pet food, the widespread effects of these events are alarming." He suggested eight topics for the review, ranging from food production practices overseas to how often U.S. plants are inspected and whether USDA and FDA have sufficient power to respond to food adulteration. |
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April 16 - Bee Crisis May Drive Up Food Costs, By Kimberly Palmer, U.S.News & World Report |
Late last year, beekeepers across the country began reporting that their honeybees were not returning to their hives, as they usually do. Some large commercial beekeepers have reported losing from 50 to 90 percent of their colonies, according to Pennsylvania State University's Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium. While scientists are still investigating, possible explanations include chemical contamination, lack of genetic diversity among bees, and parasites. Meanwhile, economists are looking into the impact of the honeybee disappearance on the country's food prices. Honeybees not only make honey, but they pollinate fruit, vegetables, and nuts. Their disappearance could start to affect prices that are already inflated from unusually cold weather in parts of the country. Here's what shoppers need to know. |
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Jan 11 - Human Guinea Pigs Eat "Ape Diet" for 12 Days, Experience Remarkable Health Improvements, By Claire Heald, BBC |
What if humans cast aside processed foods and saturated fats in favour of the sort of diet our ape-like ancestors once ate? Nine volunteers gave it a go... and were glad they did so. |
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June 11- Nonorganic Exceptions Ruffle Enthusiasts of Organic Food, By Andrew Martin, The New York Times, June 11, 2007
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PD NOTE: This is a much more intelligent and accurate analysis of this important issue then the inflammatory and distracting one in the LA Times (and Press Democrat) of a few days ago. This to me actually gives you good information about what's going on, what's at stake, and what you might want to do about it. The latest battle over what can be called organic involves beer and gelatin, food colorings and casings for sausage. The Department of Agriculture, the final arbiter of all things organic, is poised to approve a list of nonorganic ingredients that can be used in food stamped with its green-and-white organic seal. The list includes hops for beer, dill weed oil for flavoring pickles, and elderberry juice coloring for making foods bright red to blue purple. There is also chia, an herb from Central America that is used in some baked goods, and fructooligosaccharides, a bulking agent that adds fiber. In all, the organic advisory board to the Agriculture Department recommended that 38 nonorganic ingredients be added to a list of approved ingredients. Rules on organic labeling dictate that 95 percent of a product must be organic to obtain the department's label; the remaining 5 percent can be nonorganic if it comes from an approved list. To get on the approved list, an organic alternative to the ingredient must not be commercially available. But purists say that this list of ingredients is the latest example of big business trying to water down organic standards in an effort to cash in on the increased demand for organic products. They argue that allowing the nonorganic ingredients will weaken the integrity of the organic label. "More than 90 percent of the food/agricultural items on the proposed list of materials in this rule are items that can easily be grown organically," said Merrill A. Clark, an organic farmer from Michigan and a former member of the organic advisory board, in comments to the Agriculture Department. She said that allowing such nonorganic ingredients are "totally unhealthy for the organic industry down the road," and are "opening the organic rules to ridicule and unflattering public exposure." Jill M. Cataldo of Huntley, Ill., told the Agriculture Department that her family ate only organic beef to avoid exposure to mad cow disease and other health risks. But she questioned the integrity of organic sausage that would be wrapped in nonorganic casings made from the intestines of animals that can be fed such things as bovine growth hormones. ...The ingredients in dispute are already being used in organic products. But two years ago, a federal court ruled that the Agriculture Department had to approve each nonorganic agricultural product that was being used in organic food. Previously, nonorganic agricultural products could be used as long as a certifying agent agreed that that they were not available as organic, at least not in the form, quality or quantity needed. The court gave manufacturers two years to find an organic alternative or to petition the Agriculture Department to include the ingredients on a list of approved nonorganic agricultural products. The deadline was Friday, and the department was expected to make a decision by then. Officials at the Department of Agriculture could not be reached for comment Sunday. Andrea M. Caroe, the chairwoman of the advisory board, said she expected a decision within days. Even if the list is approved, she said, manufacturers would still need to show that the ingredients were not available in organic form. For instance, she said hops were included on the list because there is a large variety and some are not grown organically in adequate quantity for beer brewers. John Foraker, chief executive of Annie's Homegrown, argued that nonorganic annatto was a crucial ingredient in the company's macaroni and cheese. "Organic annatto is not readily available and does not deliver the same cheese color," he said in a May 14 letter to the Agriculture Department. "Making orange colored macaroni and cheese is an important element of our offering. Without annatto, our macaroni-and-cheese products would be white." Mark Sammartino, a brew master at Anheuser-Busch, said the company used four varieties of hops that were not available in organic form for two new varieties of beer: Organic Wild Hop Lager and Organic Stone Mill Pale Ale. The hops "represent unique flavor and aroma characteristics due to variation in essential oils," he wrote in a petition to the Agriculture Department that was received in January. The fact that Anheuser-Busch may get an exemption rankled many organic food adherents. "Hops are a crucial ingredient for beer. Why can't they use organic hops?" said James A. Riddle, an organic consultant and a former chairman of the organic advisory board. Mr. Riddle also complained that manufacturers had two years to petition for nonorganic ingredients to be allowed in organic products. But the advisory board allowed only seven days for public comments once they had posted the list of 38 recommended ingredients. "To give the public seven days to comment is really insulting," Mr. Riddle said. |
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June 9 - USDA May Relax Standards for Organic Foods, By Scott J. Wilson, Los Angeles Times
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Anheuser-Busch lager among products benefiting PD NOTE: If you read the Press Democrat article on this same topic, beware. They made stunning edits that change the meaning - starting with the title. The PD's prominent title said "FDA loosens rules for 'organic'" Interesting how their edit changes a warning about what could happen into the future into a statement that the deal is done. What a difference! The original article also gives background details that the PD article omitted, which are vital to understanding what's really being discussed (although the LA article makes key errors as well). With the "USDA organic" seal stamped on its label, Anheuser-Busch calls its Wild Hop Lager "the perfect organic experience." "In today's world of artificial flavors, preservatives and factory farming, knowing what goes into what you eat and drink can just about drive you crazy," the Wild Hop website says. "That's why we have decided to go back to basics and do things the way they were meant to be naturally." But many beer drinkers may not know that Anheuser-Busch has the organic blessing from federal regulators even though Wild Hop Lager uses hops grown with chemical fertilizers and sprayed with pesticides. A deadline of midnight Friday to come up with a new list of nonorganic ingredients allowed in USDA-certified organic products passed without action from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, leaving uncertain whether some foods currently labeled "USDA organic" would continue to be produced. The agency is considering a list of 38 nonorganic ingredients that will be permitted in organic foods. Because of the broad uses of these ingredients - as colorings and flavorings, for example - almost any type of manufactured organic food could be affected, including cereal, sausage, bread and beer. Organic food advocates have fought to block approval of some or all of the proposed ingredients, saying consumers would be misled. "This proposal is blatant catering to powerful industry players who want the benefits of labeling their products 'USDA organic' without doing the work to source organic materials," said Ronnie Cummins, executive director of the Organic Consumers Assn. of Finland, Minn., a nonprofit group that boasts 850,000 members. USDA spokeswoman Joan Shaffer declined to comment on the plan. Food manufacturers said this week that they were hoping the agency would approve the rules by Friday to continue labeling their products as organic. A federal judge had given the USDA until midnight Friday to name the nonorganic ingredients it would allow in organic foods, but the agency did not release its final list by the end of the day. "They probably don't know what to do" Cummins said. "On the other hand, it's hard to believe they're going to make people change their labels, although that's what they should do." ...Many nonorganic ingredients, including hops, are already being used in organic products, thanks to a USDA interpretation of the Organic Foods Protection Act of 1990. In 2005, a federal judge disagreed with how the USDA was applying the law and gave the agency two years to revise its rules. Organic food supporters had hoped that the USDA would allow only a small number of substances, but were dismayed last month when the agency released the proposed list of 38 ingredients. "Adding 38 new ingredients is not just a concession by the USDA, it is a major blow to the organic movement in the U.S. because it would erode consumer confidence in organic standards," said Carl Chamberlain, a research assistant with the Pesticide Education Project in Raleigh, N.C. In addition to hops, the list includes 19 food colorings, two starches, casings for sausages and hot dogs, fish oil, chipotle chili pepper, gelatin and a host of obscure ingredients (one, for instance, is a "bulking agent" and sweetener with the tongue-twisting name of fructooligosaccharides). Under the agency's proposal, as much as 5% of a food product could be made with these ingredients and still get the "USDA organic" seal. Hops, though a major component of beer's flavor, are less than 5% of the final product because the beverage is mostly water. PD NOTE: They're not proposing the 5% "other" in organic processed food. That's how it always was in their rule. Also, you don't count water when assessing the percentage to determine if something is organic or not (since there's no definition of organic water). It's amazing to me the innaccuracies in even decent coverage on these issues. ...But while the two beers use 100% organic barley malt, less than 10% of the hops they use is organic. Hops are conelike flowers that grow on vines and impart a bitter taste on beer to offset the sweetness of malts. PD NOTE: Notice how they lead the article with a scare story of an ingredient that's not organic - and way down here we find out that it's a minor ingredient and the main ingredient is organic. That just doesn't feel like proper journalism to me. Anheuser-Busch said it simply couldn't find enough organic hops. "There currently is only a small supply of organically grown hops available for purchase by brewers, and we purchased all we could for brewing these beers," said Doug Muhleman, vice president of brewing operations for Anheuser-Busch Inc. But that argument doesn't wash with Russell Klisch, owner of Milwaukee's Lakefront Brewery, which has been producing beer with 100% organic hops since 1996. "If we can do it, we think Anheuser-Busch, the world's largest beer producer with virtually unlimited resources, should be able to follow our example," he said. Klisch said there were enough organic hops to satisfy 90% of the current organic beer demand in the U.S., but some brewers were put off by their higher price. There are no organic hops commercially grown in the U.S.; most come from New Zealand, Britain and Germany. But Klisch has recently contracted with two Wisconsin farmers to grow some on their land. He doesn't understand why large brewers can't do the same. "You're telling me that Anheuser-Busch can't find a little plot of ground somewhere to grow organic hops?" he said. PD NOTE: Again I think a key distinction is being missed here - that we're only talking about what's in the "other" 5% ingredients, not the entire product. To me, this article makes it sound like the whole product could be nonorganic and called organic, which of course would be very unsettling to consumers if it were true. But it's not. In addition to hops, two other items on the USDA list have attracted particular attention: casings for sausages and hot dogs, and fish oil. Casings are the intestines of cows, pigs or sheep, which have been used for centuries to wrap meat into sausages and frankfurters. ...Fish oil's presence on the USDA list has drawn objections because it could carry high levels of heavy metals and other contaminants, said Jim Riddle, a former member of the National Organic Standards Board. But fish oil producers said such contaminants could be screened out through proper processing. The USDA rules come with what appears to be an important consumer protection: Manufacturers can use nonorganic ingredients only if organic versions are not "commercially available." But food makers have found a way around this barrier, in part because the USDA doesn't enforce the rule directly. Instead, it depends on its certifying agents - 96 licensed organizations in the U.S. and overseas - to decide for themselves what it means for a product to be available in organic form. Despite years of discussion, the USDA has yet to provide certifiers with standardized guidelines for enforcing this rule. "There is no effective mechanism for identifying a lack of organic ingredients," complained executives of Pennsylvania Certified Organic, a nonprofit certifying agent, in a letter to the USDA. "It is a very challenging task to 'prove a negative' regarding the organic supply." PD NOTE: According to the New York Times article above, this is how it WAS until a judge said that the USDA had to make a list of what's not "commercially available" and thus worthy of an exception. The list right now is apparently only 38. This to me is what clarifies what the OTA is saying - that this is actually an improvement from the prior situation, where each certifiying agency could make different decisions about what qualifies and it wasn't really visible or consistent for those who wanted to know what was being decided. Large companies have a better chance of winning approval to use nonorganic ingredients because the amount they demand can exceed the small supply of organic equivalents, said Craig Minowa, environmental scientist for the Organic Consumers Assn. |
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OTA COMMENTARY ON THIS ISSUE In response to FoodNavigator.com, May 16, 2007, Organic Trade Association
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There has been some confusion in the press and among consumers about compliance with a U.S. District Court order issued as a result of actions that challenged the National Organic Standards in June, 2005. In March 2007, the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) met and considered petitions from some processors desiring to be able to continue to market their products as currently formulated. Currently, any non-organic agricultural ingredients, if an organic version is unavailable, are being allowed in the remaining 5 percent of the ingredients in products labeled as "Organic" (at least 95% of the ingredients in the products in this category must be organic ingredients, excluding water and salt, by weight). That has changed with the Court order and USDA's agreement to tighten the qualifications for these ingredients. Unfortunately, the FoodNavigator-usa.com May 16 headline "New rule could see more ingredients permitted for organics" is misleading and inaccurate. A more accurate headline would be: "Number of non-organic ingredients permitted in organic products will shrink." When this proposed rule takes effect, only those non-organic agricultural products that have been successfully petitioned to NOSB and published in the Federal Register will be allowed when the organic counterparts are not available. Thus, the number of ingredients allowed under those circumstances will shrink dramatically compared with the current situation. All other provisions of the regulations pertaining to non-organic agricultural ingredients in organic products remain in place. For example, all non-organic agricultural ingredients used in products in the "made with," and the "organic" label categories must come from farms that do not use sewage sludge or genetic engineered seeds, and irradiation is also prohibited for those non-organic agricultural ingredients as well. |
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