EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DEMANDS EQUAL ORGANIC RIGHTS

BY KEITH NUTHALL A EUROPEAN Parliament report has called on the European Commission to demand that organic food products be only imported into the European Union (EU), where the exporting country also allows imports of EU-made 'organic' marketed foodstuffs. "EU recognition of third countries...must be reciprocal," said the paper, which has been adopted at a parliamentary plenary session. MEPs called for tougher laws on organic labelling, saying that "the country of origin [should] be clearly identifiable by consumers". Furthermore, the ...


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