Wednesday 11 March 2009
Organic and food safety
Having an organic certification tells consumers that the food product has no pesticides used on it. Consumers also tend to think this means the food is safer. A recent food safety scandal (reported by the NY Times) of a Georgia organic peanut butter company highlights that this may not necessarily be the case.
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Yeah, that is how it is. And I think it is as it has to be. It is the job of the government to assure food safety, or rather it is the job of the companies and the goverment to supervise it. Assuming that the government does itjob, there is no need for organic certifiers or inspectors to waste their time to check upon it. It is a bit cheap of the USDA to make this a problem of the organic certification bodies. The problem is theirs and it should continue to be theirs.
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