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USDA Secretary asked to clean up organic mess A letter to USDA Secretary Mike Johannes, from one of the nation’s most aggressive organic food and farming watchdogs, asked the Secretary to personally intervene in rebuilding the once promising collaborative environment that existed between the organic community and its regulators.In its letter, the Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based farm policy research group, called the current working relationship between the USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP) and industry stakeholders, farmers, consumers, and processors “very unhealthy” and asked that Secretary Johanns intercede, bringing in new management from outside of the Department, to correct what the group has previously labeled a poisoned environment. [PRWEB Sep 9, 2005]
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