The National Organics Standards Board, under pressure from the OCA and the organic community, has recommended that Nanotechnology be officially banned from organic production, just like genetic engineering, cloning, sewage sludge, and irradiation.
On October 28, 2010, the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) passed a recommendation directing the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) to prohibit engineered nanomaterials from organic products. OCA will now pressure the USDA to quickly take action and implement a full ban.
As non-agricultural, synthetically produced substances, engineered nanomaterials are already excluded from organic, unless granted a specific exception. This recommendation encourages the NOP to take further steps to block companies from petitioning the NOSB to allow engineered nanomaterials. It also asks the NOP to explicitly exclude nanotechnology from organic food packaging.
Now, we need to press the NOP to act quickly, “as expeditiously as possible,” to quote the NOSB, and to make sure they close the door to nanotechnology in organic production, processing, products and packaging.
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