{"id":1714,"date":"2005-10-30T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-30T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/10\/30\/congress-approves-weakened-organic-standards\/"},"modified":"2005-10-30T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-30T14:56:00","slug":"congress-approves-weakened-organic-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/congress-approves-weakened-organic-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Approves Weakened Organic Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a few days late on this, and, quite frankly, the dueling press releases were confusing: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ota.com\/index.html\">Organic Trade Association<\/a> trumpets a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnewswire.com\/2005\/10\/the_organic_tra.html\">&#8220;restoration of organic standards,&#8221;<\/a> while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumersunion.org\/\">Consumer&#8217;s Union<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodconsumer.org\/777\/8\/Consumers_Union_Derides_Dark-of-Night_Weakening_of_Organic_Law.shtml\">&#8220;Derides Dark-of-Night Weakening of Organic Law.&#8221;<\/a> What&#8217;s clear is that this is a victory for &#8220;Big Organic,&#8221; represented by the OTA, which wanted to be able to slap an organic certification label on products that contain &#8220;synthetic ingredients in the non-organic portion of food labeled &#8216;organic.&#8221; As CU&#8217;s press release notes, Congress&#8217; action goes directly against the ruling on the recent <em><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablog.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/organic-labeling-conumdrum.html\">Harvey vs. Johanns<\/a><\/em> case, so I&#8217;d imagine that this will quickly end up back in court. In the meantime, I&#8217;d guess you&#8217;re better off staying away from mass-produced organic foods if you really want to avoid any synthetic ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/organic\" rel=\"tag\">organic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/food\" rel=\"tag\">food<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/labels\" rel=\"tag\">labels<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/Congress\" rel=\"tag\">Congress<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/politics\" rel=\"tag\">politics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/USA\" rel=\"tag\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a few days late on this, and, quite frankly, the dueling press releases were confusing: The Organic Trade Association trumpets a &#8220;restoration of organic standards,&#8221; while Consumer&#8217;s Union &#8220;Derides&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Congress Approves Weakened Organic Standards &#8226; 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