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INDUSTRY SNEAK ATTACK ON ORGANIC STANDARDS RAMMED THROUGH CONGRESS

Despite receiving over 350,000 letters and phone calls from OCA members and the

organic community, Republican leaders in Congress October 27 attached a rider to

the 2006 Agricultural Appropriations Bill to weaken the nation's organic food

standards in response to pressure from large-scale food manufacturers. " Congress

voted last night to weaken the national organic standards that consumers count

on to preserve the integrity of the organic label, " said Ronnie Cummins,

National Director of the Organic Consumers Association. " The process was

profoundly undemocratic and the end result is a serious setback for the multi

billion dollar alternative food and farming system that the organic community

has so painstakingly built up over the past 35 years. As passed, the amendment

sponsored by the Organic Trade Association allows: Numerous synthetic food

additives and processing aids, including over 500 food contact substances, to be

used in organic foods without public review. Young dairy cows to continue to be

treated with antibiotics and fed genetically engineered feed prior to being

converted to organic production. Loopholes under which non-organic ingredients

could be substituted for organic ingredients without any notification of the

public based on " emergency decrees. " OCA will work to reverse this rider with an

" Organic Restoration Act " in Congress in 2006.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm

 

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