Posted March 21, 2019
Back in the 1980s, when the organic community petitioned Congress to develop a single, enforceable organic standard under federal law, we built in safeguards to protect the process from influence by corporate lobbyists. That included the National Organic Standards Board as a policymaking buffer and a strict accreditation/auditing program by the USDA overseeing independent certifiers as their legal agents (mitigating a clear economic conflict of interest). Read more.