What Is Organic Food?

What Is Organic Food?

"Organic" has some quite specific legal definitions in most developed
countries.

In the U.S, all farms or products claiming to be "certified organic"
must be guaranteed by a USDA-approved independent agency to be meeting
the following guidelines:

* Sound records kept of all operations
* No use of antibiotics or hormones in livestock
* No use of genetically modified organisms
* No irradiation
* Use sound soil conservation and crop rotation practice
* And most importantly, that there has been no useage of prohibited
materials within 3 years prior to certification, or at any time during
certification.

The USDA defines 'prohibited materials' as synthetic fertilizers,
pesticides and sewage sludge. It is also a requirement that there is
no cross-contamination during processing, which means organic wheat
for example cannot be ground in a flour factory that also handles non-
organic material.

Produce grown organically certainly tastes better than the usual
supermarket stock. It also contains higher levels of nutrients and far
lower residual pesticides. You can read all the latest Organic Food
articles and research at http :// www .ge-free,com /

In general food grown free of pesticides, herbicides and genetically
modified organisms (GMO) is organic to some extent. Certified organic
food is that

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Re: What Is Organic Food?

On Jan 7, 12:01 pm, rota6...@yahoo,com .tw wrote:
> "Organic" has some quite specific legal definitions in most developed
> countries.
>
> In the U.S, all farms or products claiming to be "certified organic"
> must be guaranteed by a USDA-approved independent agency to be meeting
> the following guidelines:
>
> * Sound records kept of all operations
> * No use of antibiotics or hormones in livestock
> * No use of genetically modified organisms
> * No irradiation
> * Use sound soil conservation and crop rotation practice
> * And most importantly, that there has been no useage of prohibited
> materials within 3 years prior to certification, or at any time during
> certification.
>
> The USDA defines 'prohibited materials' as synthetic fertilizers,
> pesticides and sewage sludge. It is also a requirement that there is
> no cross-contamination during processing, which means organic wheat
> for example cannot be ground in a flour factory that also handles non-
> organic material.
>
> Produce grown organically certainly tastes better than the usual
> supermarket stock. It also contains higher levels of nutrients and far
> lower residual pesticides. You can read all the latest Organic Food
> articles and research at http :// www .ge-free,com /
>
> In general food grown free of pesticides, herbicides and genetically
> modified organisms (GMO) is organic to some extent. Certified organic
> food is that
>
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sorry the FDA and the USDA have been determined as 'stupid' and
'lazy' considering. they've approved so much that is supposively
organic only to find out much later (much, much later) that what
they approved was a scam instead.

organic? you want organic? grow your own garden... and don't use
pesticides and fertilizers.. you'll go nuts and lose your job but god
damned it those carrots will be organic!

heh.