***What's interesting here is that the 'booted' USDA organic ingredients. . . are not organic.
What's really incomprehensible is the concluding statement below that the ". . . USDA is revising its National List to include the 38 (nonorganic!) ingredients. If all goes as planned, processors would be able to use them when an organic counterpart wasn't available commercially."
Legal/Regulatory News
USDA gives the boot to certain organic ingredients
By John Gregerson on 6/18/2007 for Meatingplace.com
As a result of a new USDA rule, organic products containing certain non-organic minor ingredients are in non-compliance with organic certification — at least for now.
The National Organic Program regulation clarifies that only ingredients appearing in the USDA's National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances are suitable for organic product — bad news for 38 non-organic ingredients, including colors, starches and oils, routinely used in organic foods as a result of misinterpretation of National List regulations.
The ban may be temporary. USDA is revising its National List to include the 38 ingredients. If all goes as planned, processors would be able to use them when an organic counterpart wasn't available commercially.
