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#95697. star_gazer
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In order to label a US supermarket item "organic" what standards must it meet?
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In order to label supermarket items such as vegetables, they have to come from an supplier with organic certification.
To have organic certification a supplier has to avoid most synthetic chemical inputs (e.g. fertilizer, pesticides, antibiotics, food additives, etc), genetically modified organisms, irradiation, and the use of sewage sludge. They also have to use farmland that has been free from chemicals for a number of years (often, three or more), and keep detailed written production and sales records(audit trail, maintaining strict physical separation of organic products from non-certified products), while undergoing periodic on-site inspections.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_certification
May 15 08, 7:12 PM
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