The Organic Trade Association warns USDA’s proposal to rollback new rules for organic pet food and mushrooms without ...

“The USDA certifies the certifiers,” is how Mark Kastel explains the arrangement. Like many programs funded by the federal government, the future of organic certification is in questio ...

An NOP Import Certificate is issued to the organic exporter by its certification body (CB), which ... but they must work directly with a USDA-accredited certifying agent. Like all certified ...

Started in 2002, the nonprofit organization’s standards are modeled after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Certified Organic Label, but they’re designed to give farmers a cheaper and ...

Food in the U.S. must be produced in accordance with specific standards in order to be labeled “organic,” and the USDA is responsible for writing and enforcing these standards. At the very end of his ...

Food in the U.S. must be produced in accordance with specific standards in order to be labeled “organic,” and the USDA is responsible for writing and enforcing these standards. At the very end of his ...

One can’t help but wonder how organic farming in the US would be different if we had continued to let farmers define and protect organic through regional certification bodies. Before there were ...

A primer on these private certifications, how they differ from USDA's "organic" certification, and labeling considerations that may follow Regenerative agriculture certifications and label claims ...

USDA must now make a new decision to allow any ... will also suffer significant economic losses as a result of GE alfalfa deregulation. APHIS contends that organic certification is process-based and ...