Source: Elizabeth Crawford, GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 8/6/20



Responding to increasing fraud threats to the organic industry, the US Department of Agriculture seeks to strengthen oversight and improve the transparency and traceability of organic food through a four-prong plan that praises and mirrors actions already taken by the Organic Trade Association. In a proposed rule published [August 5] in the Federal Register, USDA seeks to “close gaps in the current regulations to build consistent certification practices to deter and detect organic fraud” in part...

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