By Common Dreams staff
Today, the Cornucopia Institute released a report titled The Organic Watergate revealing widespread corruption in the USDA’s organic food monitoring panel — the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB).
The NOSB is supposed to monitor any synthetic ingredient used in organic farming or food production, to “assure that it is not a threat to human health or the environment”; however, as the report reveals, the USDA has been “stacking” the review panel with agribusiness executives who have “increasingly facilitated the use of questionable synthetic additives and even dangerous chemicals in organic foods.”
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