Cracking Down on Organic Food Fraud: Science to the rescue
February 13th, 2008
With organic foods raking in $16 billion and more annually, some are concerned that Department of Agriculture standards and independent third-party verification may be insufficient to prevent fraud. Spanish scientists describe how they use “nitrogen isotopic discrimination” to determine if non-organic, synthetic fertilizers were used…
USDA organic standards are widely considered to be trustworthy, given that independent third-party assessors check on farm practices, and the USDA has also recently cracked down on at least one large dairy that had received organic certification for its milk before its standards lapsed.
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