The USDA’s organic label is likely the most trusted mark of its kind. The organic label has seen steady growth ever since 1990 when Congress passed the Organic Food Production Act (OFPA).
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that this year began with 45,578 organic businesses globally, with 62 percent,
Continue Reading Enforcement stepped up in past year to protect USDA’s organic label
The detailed agenda won’t be available under sometime after Labor Day, but the National Organic Standards Board Is scheduled to meet Oct. 24-26 at the InterContinental Saint Paul Riverfront Hotel in St. Paul. MN. The federal advisory group typically meets twice a year.
The meetings are open to the public,
Continue Reading National Organic Standards Board set to meet in St. Paul in October
The National Organic Program that stands behind those USDA Organic seals on processed and fresh foods in the grocery store comes with a lot of fine print. Most consumers don’t know much about it, but for the $50 billion organic marketplace, it’s all about the details.
And the latest changes
Continue Reading USDA proposes changes to ‘National List’ for organic producers
The USDA’s National Organic Program completed more complaint reviews and investigations that it received in 2017. It finished work on 462 reviews and investigations while receiving 379 incoming complaints during the fiscal year 2017 ending last Sept. 30.
Under the jurisdiction of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, the organic program recently
Continue Reading USDA’s organic enforcement efforts find fraudulent certificates
Once you’re big enough, it’s only matter of time before you must begin to worry somebody is ripping you off. That pretty well sums up the current mindset of the Organic Trade Association which figures that organic sales last year totaled about $47 billion or about 5.3 percent of all
Continue Reading Organic Trade Association guards against food fraud schemes
