Elizabeth Crawford
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Organic farming fraud is growing, prompting USDA crackdown proposal
Responding to increasing fraud threats to the organic industry, the US Department of Agriculture seeks to strengthen oversight and improve ...
Campbell’s Soup works with federal agencies to craft national GMO label
Drawing on extensive consumer research, The Campbell Soup Co.'s GMO disclosure labels on packs and online could serve as a ...
USDA, FDA proposals on gene editing aimed at ‘modernizing biotech regulations’
Editor's note: This story discusses proposed plans for new regulations for gene-edited plants and animals by the FDA and the USDA ...
National Organic Standards Board wants USDA to exclude new gene-editing techniques
To protect organic crops and products form the “incursion” of rapidly developing genetic engineering, the National Organic Standards Board voted ...
Can next generation GMOs be rebranded as ‘green?’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Growing consumer concern about ...
Local food to eclipse organic, as consumers begin to doubt definition
New consumers continue to enter the organic category for the first time, but the health halo cast by the US ...
