"In addition, FDA’s proposed rule treats all of the following soil amendments as if they were raw manure:
*Compost made without specific heating periods (farmers often refer to this as “static composting,” but the FDA has defined that term differently);
*Vermicompost or worm castings;
*Compost teas with any additives, even simple molasses or kelp meal;
*Any compost that does not meet the precise methods and testing requirements specified in the rule.
The practical effect of the proposed rule is to allow synthetic chemicals to be easily used, while making the use of many natural soil amendments difficult or even impossible for many farmers."
*Compost made without specific heating periods (farmers often refer to this as “static composting,” but the FDA has defined that term differently);
*Vermicompost or worm castings;
*Compost teas with any additives, even simple molasses or kelp meal;
*Any compost that does not meet the precise methods and testing requirements specified in the rule.
The practical effect of the proposed rule is to allow synthetic chemicals to be easily used, while making the use of many natural soil amendments difficult or even impossible for many farmers."
Action Alert
FDA Food Safety Comment Deadline is now Nov. 22 !
(Extended from Nov. 15)
(Extended from Nov. 15)
Your Electronic Voice Can Help Save the Family Farms Producing Our Nation’s Best Food. It’s the 11th hour. Please comment directly on the FDA’s food safety web page to help save our nation’s organic/local produce farmers from potential ruin! The FDA’s proposed food safety rules threaten to ensnare many of the country’s safest farmers in a tangle of expensive, misdirected regulations that may force many of our best farmers out of business.
- For the Preventive Controls Rule: FDA-2011-N-0920 and RIN 0910-AG36
- For the Produce Rule: FDA-2011-N-0921 and RIN 0910-AG35
If you want to comment on both rules, you can mail them together but must label your comments with BOTH of those docket numbers.
Just a little PEEP from us might at least get some complaints into the record...
We will use it as evidence that they all know full well the actions taken by FDA/Monsanto is a conspiracy to make money in any and every way they can...Off of our health and our families' bodies...
