RE: Product Labels -- organic produce, etc

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At 01:43 PM 4/21/2004 -0400, you wrote:

>Hi Anya how are you doing over on sunny Miami Shores?

>I'm looking for a post you made some time ago about

>product labels specifically about if the bar code started with a 9 they

>were organic, an 8 genetically played with and so on. I'm not sure on

>the numbers I'm just using those as examples. Do you happen to

>have this post or remember it. Or do you know where I can get more

>info on that?

 

Hi Marlen -- how is it over there in sunny Miami Lakes? Quite a beautiful

'cool' spring we're having!

 

Here is the original post:

VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION FROM NATIONAL DIRECTOR CARLENE STEADMAN

 

I didn't know until I read it last night that the little stickers on

loose fruits and vegetables have valuable information on them! According

to a letter from 'a scientist knowledgeable in the field of genetically

modified organisms (GMOs)' in the October 2003 issue of Gourmet

magazine:

 

" A useful tip to the consumer [would be] a primer on how to read the

little stickers on loose fruits and vegetables. Besides providing the

store's cash registers and computers with product identification and

price information, these stickers can tell you a lot about the food you

are buying.

 

A label with four digits indicates conventionally grown

food. Labels with five digits starting with an 8 indicate that the food

is genetically modified. Labels with 5 digits starting with a 9 indicate

that the food is organically grown. "

 

 

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