Re: [pf] National Organic Standards Released

by Jill Taylor Bussiere

20 December 2000 23:25 UTC

This is definitely worth celebrating!!!  Time to bask a bit!

                Jill

From: Vicki Madden <vlmadden@spacelab.net>
>
>
> The new regulations, which will replace a hodgepodge of state standards,
> will ban the use of biotechnology or irradiation in organic products,
which
> are grown without the use of most synthetic pesticides.
> The rules also will ban the use of antibiotics in organic meat and require
> dairy cattle to have access to pasture