by Mark Kastel | Sep 21, 2021 | Kastel's Kitchen Posts, OrganicEye Posts
Unless you are eating local, fresh, unprocessed, whole organic food, it isn’t enough to just look for the USDA Organic logo—you must become a label reader! Federal law requires all certified organic products to state which USDA accredited certifier has inspected and... 
by Mark Kastel | Aug 9, 2021 | OrganicEye Posts
Beyond Pesticides/OrganicEye Steps in as USDA Fails to Take Action Washington, DC — Beyond Pesticides filed another lawsuit in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia against a company that markets CBD (cannabidiol) products identified with false or... 
by Mark Kastel | Jul 20, 2021 | OrganicEye Posts
New White Paper Profiles Lobbyist-Affiliated Appointees to National Organic Standards Board Washington, DC — Continuing a trend well established by prior Republican and Democratic administrations, four of the five newest appointees to the National Organic... 
by Mark Kastel | Jun 2, 2021 | Kastel's Kitchen Posts, OrganicEye Posts
Food Additives and Chemicals in Organics??? Unless you are eating fresh, whole organic food, it isn’t enough to just look for the USDA Organic logo—you must become a label reader! Now that corporate agribusinesses own most of the popular organic name brands, many of... 
by Mark Kastel | Apr 21, 2021 | OrganicEye Posts
UPDATE: Day 2 The operative term for testimony on Day Two, as usual, is “conflict of interest” (COI). As the saying goes, follow the money. First, we have certifiers, paid for by their “clients,” lobbying for the use of certain materials, many of them controversial. I...
