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Cracking Down on Organic Food Fraud
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f7eebb8c-02b3-46a0-b0dc-ff743cb12f32/AC2127F4-1BF3-425B-B428-9E5B400B0BF5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/2/23/cracking-down-on-organic-food-fraud.aspx" href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/2/23/cracking-down-on-organic-food-fraud.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">articles.mercola.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/2/23/cracking-down-on-organic-food-fraud.aspx"><P><IMG align="right" src="http://articles.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2008/February/2.23organictomato.jpg" alt="organic food, fraud, fraudulent labeling, labels, organic labels, all-natural, natural" />Organic foods are a $16 billion a year business, and some are concerned that Department of Agriculture standards and independent third-party verification may be insufficient to prevent fraud.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/2/23/cracking-down-on-organic-food-fraud.aspx"><P>But Spanish scientists have developed a method of using "nitrogen isotopic discrimination" to determine if non-organic, synthetic fertilizers were used on plants. Since organic fertilizers have nitrogen isotopes that differ from synthetic fertilizers, it is possible to distinguish produce grown using the two different methods.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/2/23/cracking-down-on-organic-food-fraud.aspx"><P>USDA organic standards are widely considered to be trustworthy, because independent third-party assessors check on farm practices. The USDA recently cracked down on at least one large dairy that let its standards lapse.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/2/23/cracking-down-on-organic-food-fraud.aspx"><DIV id="ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_bcr_bcr_bcr_divSources"> <DIV class="VPNSKRACHI">Sources:</DIV><UL class="SourcesbulletArrow"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/eat-safe/organic-food-fraud-47020403" class="SourcesLnkAdmin" target="_blank">The Daily Green February 5, 2008</A></LI></UL><UL class="SourcesbulletArrow"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://jeq.scijournals.org/cgi/content/full/37/1/182" class="SourcesLnkAdmin" target="_blank">Journal of Environmental Quality January 4, 2008; 37:182-185 (Free Full Text Article)</A></LI></UL> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/2/23/cracking-down-on-organic-food-fraud.aspx"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="bottom" class="CommentBg">Dr. Mercola's Comments: </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/2/23/cracking-down-on-organic-food-fraud.aspx">Greenwashing, the practice of branding a conventionally grown or processed food as natural or organic,</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AC2127F4-1BF3-425B-B428-9E5B400B0BF5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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