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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...

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...

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...

Beyond Pesticides/OrganicEye Steps in as USDA Fails to Take Action Washington, DC — Beyond Pesticides and its investigative arm, OrganicEye, filed suit in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia against two companies that market CBD (cannabidiol) products...

Q: How can you identify the safest and most nutritious vegetables (year-round)?A: Tune into Kastel’s Kitchen Episode 3 to find out! Conventional versus organic, industrial-organic versus homegrown quality. What’s the hierarchy of selection during the summer growing...

Naming Names: Learn the Very Best Organic Brands and Some Tricks to Identify the Fraudsters in Organics Please watch Mark Kastel, live from the farm, explore the grocery brands he has high confidence in that are found in his own kitchen. He bases his critique on...

On Monday, November 23, Mark Kastel, OrganicEye Director, interviewed Terry Shistar, PhD, Beyond Pesticides board member and chief scientific advisor at OrganicEye, about the potential impacts of sanitizers used in facilities manufacturing organic foods. They...

Please watch the OrganicEye staff recap the Fall 2020 NOSB meetings Tune in to hear veteran OrganicEye staff recap the daily proceedings of the Fall 2020 USDA National Organic Standards Board meeting. The NOSB debated and decided important issues, including whether...

Reinforcing Fundamental Responsibilities of NOSB Members at a Time of Great Corporate Influence The following are transcripts of oral testimony presented by OrganicEye leadership before the National Organic Standards Board on Tuesday, October 20, 2020. The NOSB...

August 31 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact:Mark A. Kastel, 608-625-2042 / mkastel@organiceye.org USDA Asked to Crackdown on Misrepresentation in Organic Marketing Case Study: CBD products and the “Wild West” of fraudulent labelsTHE STORY: A QUICK OVERVIEW Fraudulent...

Ninety-five food, labor, and environmental organizations, including OrganicEye, are calling for swift action to ensure workers’ and communities’ health and safety. HEAL Food Alliance and Food Chain Workers Alliance are proud to unite with our allies in...

The OrganicEye leadership team, Mark Kastel, Jay Feldman, and Dr. Terry Shistar, all testified on day one of USDA’s National Organic Standards Board (virtual) meeting on April 21, 2020. The biannual meeting was originally scheduled to take place just outside of Washington, DC during the last week of the month.

In the midst of recalls of romaine lettuce contaminated with a pathogenic strain of E. coli, states and counties across the country are calling for a moratorium on large confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

In the midst of recalls of romaine lettuce contaminated with a pathogenic strain of E. coli, states and counties across the country are calling for a moratorium on large confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

Comment Period Closes December 2 Tell the USDA – No Factory Farms / No Conventional Cattle Producing Organic Milk Tell the USDA to follow the will of Congress and close its own loophole. The National Organic Program should enforce both the spirit and letter...

Stay tuned to https://www.facebook.com/organiceye.org/ for live updates from NOSB Pittsburgh October 23-25. Day 1 Posted by OrganicEye on Wednesday, October 23, 2019 Day 2 Posted by OrganicEye on Thursday, October 24, 2019

USDA Panel Votes in Pittsburgh on the Future of Nitrates in Meat SIGN THE PETITION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mark A. Kastel, 608-625-2042 / mkastel@organiceye.orgTerry Shistar, 202-543-5450 / tshistar@beyondpesticides.org WASHINGTON, DC — In the...

WASHINGTON, DC — Beyond Pesticides, a public interest organization founded to advocate for healthy air, water, land, and food by eliminating the use of toxic pesticides, and advance healthy practices, has announced the formation of an investigative arm, OrganicEye. The new watchdog agency will focus on defending the “time-honored philosophy and legal definition of organic farming and food production” from USDA’s systemic failure to protect the interests of organic farmers, ethical businesses, and consumers.

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The whole picture Organic food contributes to better health through reduced pesticide exposure for all and increased nutritional quality. In order to understand the importance of eating organic food from the perspective of toxic pesticide contamination, we need to...