The petition Perdue Farms Inc. filed with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) March 16 is still generating comments. The petition was assigned to the FSIS Office of Policy and Program Development.
Perdue said FSIS’s conflation of the definition of “free range” and “pasture-raised” has caused industry-wide confusion and
Continue Reading Labeling petition over ‘free range’ policy is still getting comments after six months
That new animal welfare rule for the Organic Label may be held up by a hidden force, namely Big Ag.
The Cornucopia Institute, the nonprofit that claims to watch out for the integrity of certified organic food and says it is safer than non-organics, has said that “the long arms
Continue Reading Is Big Ag out to kill animal welfare rule for the Organic Label?
With the publication of an Organic Dairy Scoreboard, added to its other consumer guides, the 10-year-old Cornucopia Institute is once again telling the public to do some homework before going to the grocery store, especially if their shopping list includes organic food.
A Wisconsin-based farm policy institute, the Cornucopia
Continue Reading Group ranks 160 organic milk brands; says USDA has failed consumers
The National Organic Standards Board has voted 10-3, with one abstention, to remove carrageenan from the list of substances approved for use in food items labeled “USDA Organic.” The vote came Thursday afternoon during the board’s three-day fall meeting in St. Louis.
NOSB members were tentatively scheduled to make a
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Recently, Mr. Mischa Popoff wrote an op-ed for Food Safety News critical of the organic movement. Popoff is a former Canadian organic certification inspection contractor, the author of a self-published book critical of organics, and a commentator affiliated with ultra-conservative think tanks in the U.S. that are funded by agrochemical
Continue Reading Critic of Organic Agriculture Lacks Credibility
