USDA Rescinds Controversial Organic Food Rule
Environment News Service, May, 2004 by staff
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Anne Veneman has rescinded new organic food guidelines that critics say threatened to undermine the integrity of the organic food industry.
The directives, announced last month by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), relaxed enforcement of the national organic standards and allowed some use of pesticides, animal drugs, growth hormones, antibiotics, and tainted fishmeal on organic farms.
They outraged the organic industry and consumer organizations, who threatened legal action to force the agency to reverse its decisions.
In response to the new directives, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), a national consumer watchdog group, immediately launched a campaign to pressure the USDA into reversing its...
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