From today all pre-packaged organic produce will need to carry the new Euro-leaf logo. The new EU organic logo was designed by German student Dusan Milenkovic after a pan-European competition was held by the European Commission. Read the rest of this entry »
New proposals to regulate food labels in the EU went before the European Parliament on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
As Environmental Health News recently reported, the EPA will ban endosulfan, a chemical cousin of DDT, the pesticide banned in the 1970s because of its devastating effects on wildlife. Read the rest of this entry »
The Government of Canada is to invest in British Columbia’s organics industry to allow local farmers to take advantage of new research and growing market opportunities. Read the rest of this entry »
The agriculture ministers from throughout the world assembled at the 1st Berlin Summit of Agriculture Ministers. Read the rest of this entry »
Federal inspectors who conducted a survey to identify gaps in the nation’s food traceability system told a House subcommittee yesterday that they managed to trace only 5 of 40 products through the full production and distribution chain and that some food facilities didn’t know they needed to keep source contact information. Read the rest of this entry »
Critics of the Horticulture Code of Conduct have aired their grievances with a government review committee this week. Read the rest of this entry »
The European Union has made a fresh proposal to Latin American banana producers in a bid to end a decade-old dispute over the bloc’s banana import policies, sources close to the WTO said Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
The EU’s agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has backed a review of the bloc’s plan to promote environmentally-friendly food production. Speaking in Nürnberg, Germany, Fischer Boel (pictured) said she favoured a “mid-term evaluation” of 2004’s European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming. Read the rest of this entry »
Consumers have plenty to cheer about as they would soon be able to get real value for their ringgit when they purchase vegetables or fruits. Read the rest of this entry »