Organic farmers also use substances in which the active ingredient is known to
>be natural but which also contain inert ingredients that are undisclosed as a
>matter of trade secret law under the Federal Insecticide Fungicide
Rodenticide
>Act. The Committee suspects that many of these inert ingredients are
>synthetic. For example, adjuvants would fall into this category. Until such
>time as FIFRA is altered to require the full disclosure of inert ingredients,
>organic farmers should be allowed to continue using compounded substances if
>the active ingredient is natural and if use of the substance is
recommended by
>the National Organic Standards Board and approved by the Secretary for
>inclusion on the National List.
NO way USDA Watch out here they come again. We organic farmers must know the
inert ingredients . I don't care about the FIFRA We at ccof always know the
inert ingredients before we use it or put it on the safe list. one time I did
not buy beneficial nemtodes because they contained 1 tenth of 1% biocide . I
called CCOF and found out that because of 1 tenth of 1% biocide it was enough
to make it not organic.Yet now I will not even get to know what the inert
ingredients are because the USDA is taking over CCOF and all the other
certifiers.If you hear the words undisclosed inert ingredients run and if you
are organic run fast the other way. I say if they want the organic label
they must disclose. Here they come again USDA and friends stealing the word
organic. stealing away our organicness and trying to pull the wool over our
eyes. fox is sly and now the fox is watching the hen house. to me organic
inputs cannot have undisclosed ingredients no matter what the USDA says. back
for round 2 . Here they come again. this time sneaking in undisclosed inert
ingredients. I the farmer not any NOSB or USDA has the right to know the
ingredients I am using on organic land so I the grower can make a choice .
the whole idea of organic growing and all we have to go through is to rid our
customers and us of undisclosed stuff. Its the undisclosed stuff the stuff the
USDA does not tell you I worry most about in this day of gene alter stuff and
was told that this is how the USDA will be getting their gene alter stuff
in to
organic growing as undisclosed inert ingredients I don't know if that is true
or not but it looks like it to me.. inert can mean anything so thus organic
will mean nothing. beware of the woof in sheep clothing. they act like the
sheep but are the woof and can fool some of the people most of the time but
not
all the people all the time. about as far as I can throw them.
Sals@rain.org
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