Organic food

• Rice is known to have concentrations of arsenic that find their way into the population, especially among people who consume more rice than other staples.
(Medical News Today)
• Organic farmers typically enter into contracts with processors. This provides stability compared with the month-to-month pricing of conventional milk, but it has caused problems once food and fuel costs took off.
(Press & Sun-Bulletin)
• Given that organic brown rice syrup may introduce significant concentrations of arsenic to an individuals diet, the researchers saw an urgent need for regulatory limits on arsenic in food.
(YAHOO!)
• ​Officials from the United States and the European Union signed a deal today in Nuremburg, Germany, that will allow organic food products to be sold as such in both regions.
(Los Angeles Weekly)
• If you buy organic products, your options may be about to expand. The U.S. and the European Union are announcing that they will soon treat each others organic standards as equivalent.
(NPR News)
• SHELTON, Conn., Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time in four years since undertaking its Annual Organic Product Survey, TABS Group (www.TABSGroup.
(PR Newswire)
• Dietician Amy Jamieson-Petonic warns that just because food is organic doesnt mean it is healthy.
(Huffington Post)
• Ive just received my copy of the book based on the speech given by Prince Charles at a conference I attended in Washington, D.C., a few months ago.
(Atlantic Online)
• NUREMBERG, Germany — Food products classified as organic in the European Union or the United States can be sold as such in either region after a deal struck on Wednesday between the two major trading blocs.
(Khaleej Times)