Two weeks ago the Advisory Board (the NOSB) to the USDA-NOP passed a “recommendation” that the Dept. of Agriculture should regulate organic claims ...
Posted on November 21, 2009
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It is unwise to take the recent Personal Care Recommendation by the NOSB (Nat’l Organic Standards Board, an advisory board to the NOP) out of the c...
Posted on November 09, 2009
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Secret Codes: (okay – so they are just acronyms . . .)
NOP = National Organic Program USDA = Untied States Department of AGRICULTURE (Farms!!)
NOSB...
Posted on September 28, 2009
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One of the reasons that the organic food program works is because of certification. I’m not convinced that consumers understand or care about a cer...
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The cosmetic industry seems obsessed by this notion of harmonized standards yet seems unaware that it took the organic food movement over 40 years ...
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Let’s talk about how cosmetic products get certified under the NOP. Maybe it will help people see how this food model interacts (or does not) with ...
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MAKE A COMMITMENT! Natural Beauty Summit May 2009 Report Recap
Okay – so I am not really “just back from” the Natural Beauty Summit (NBS) but, aft...
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I was talking with a friend about how I comply with my org. certification and he thought I should post it. Here you go:
One part of the regulation,...
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There has been a lot of talk about the need to harmonize the few organic standards out there for cosmetics. I don’t believe we need to do this just...
Posted on December 20, 2008
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Some of you may not know that, although I do not practice, my education was as a physiologist and the science habits I learned have lingered. I can...
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Have you ever stopped to look at how many “organic” certification seals there are on “organic” food products? I just took a bunch of things out of ...
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These are my personal musings on some of the issues in the organic industry, the cosmetic industry , and our collective responsibility to be inform...
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