The performance of individual organic produce categories, which many consumers see as important to food safety, ranged widely last year, according to the State of Organic Produce 2022, a report released by the Organic Produce Network (ONP).
The 72-page report provides an overall view of organic produce retail performance
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Organic produce has tentatively been determined to be behind an E. Coli O157 outbreak that has sickened children in the Seattle-King County area in Washington.
All of the patients are younger than 15 years of age, and three are younger 5 years of age. The seven patients have been reported
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Consumers buying pricey organic produce would likely be upset if they knew the imported fruits and vegetables they pay premium prices for are sometimes doused with chemicals when they reach the United States.
A new report by USDA’s Inspector General looks at the National Organic Program’s international “arrangements and agreements”
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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
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Almost four out of 10 samples of both domestically grown and imported fruits and vegetables that were put to the test by California showed no signs of pesticide residue — whatsoever.
Coming two weeks after federal pesticide residue testing results for 2015 were released, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation
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Organic micro greens grown by a Colorado company and distributed to Whole Foods Markets locations in Kansas and Colorado are under recall after a random government test of the finished product showed Salmonella contamination. 
Osage Gardens Inc. of New Castle, CO, packaged the recalled micro greens in 2-ounce clear,
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