OCA Brings Consumer Concerns to National Organic Standards Board Meeting

Thank you to all of you who sent us comments to share at the National Organic Standards Board meeting this week. Your passionate, well-reasoned and informed comments were just what the NOSB needed to hear! Alexis Baden-Mayer presented OCA’s testimony on Monday. You can read the full testimony here.
In other organic standards news, the USDA National Organic Program is accepting comments on their proposed rule for organic livestock. You can read the proposed rule here.
Important issues on the horizon at the National Organic Standards Board include whether to continue to allow producers to use non-organic soy lecithin in products labeled “USDA Organic.” Learn more.
If you’d like to have your thoughts on livestock or soy lecithin included in OCA’s comments to the USDA National Organic Program or the National Organic Standards Board, please send a note to Alexis Baden-Mayer at alexis[a]organicconsumers.org.