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USDA struggles to enforce the labeling standard for organic items. Fraud is rampant and they don't have the ability to enforce it fast enough. https://newfoode

USDA struggles to enforce the labeling standard for organic items. Fraud is rampant and they don't have the ability to enforce it fast enough. https://newfoodeconomy.org/organic-food-fraud-usda-doj-randy-constant/ https://newfoodeconomy.org/organic-food-fraud-usda-doj-randy... This was a case just last month. $142 million in false organic grain over 7 years that was shipped as feed to animals later sold as organic.

NeedMoreTea 7y ago
USDA has, I think, just about the weakest definition of organic globally. I can't say I'm surprised to find some fraud in the system, given all we know of the rest of US agriculture. Clearly better enforcement is required, as is a tighter definition of the standard. Even so, it still seems to be the highest US enforced certification available, so remains the best indicator of production and animal treatment a US consumer has, for all its flaws and inadequacy. Thankfully the EU is doing better, though that may well change markedly for the worse here in the UK after Brexit. Especially if the much mooted, and one-sided UK-US trade deal is made real, not just mythical rainbows and unicorns.