ORGANIC FOOD PRODUCTION THINK PIECE – EU ORGANIC FOOD REGULATION PROPOSAL
January 1st, 2006
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission's new regulation to support organic food production - unveiled just before Christmas - isn't quite the key to lift-off in this sector that some of us were hoping for. A cynic would say that's because it doesn't provide any fresh money though Brussels, farm people say that was never the plan anyway. The problem as they see it is mainly to do with identification: what should food contain or not contain to carry the tag "organic" for instance. In part this is addressed by the planned introduction of a new EU logo for ...
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