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Organic Apples And Pears To Be Antibiotic-Free
STEVEN DUBOIS, Associated Press
PORTLAND — The organic apples you buy in the grocery store will soon be free of a widely used antibiotic.
The National Organic Standards Board late Thursday rejected a petition to allow growers to use the antibiotic oxytetracyline beyond the existing expiration date of Oct. 21, 2014.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s labeling standards generally prohibit food from being certified organic if antibiotics were used during production. But the threat of fire blight — a bacterial pathogen that infects flowers and trees — led to an exception for growers of apples and pears.
That exception was revisited in Portland this week as consumer groups and concerned citizens urged the board to maintain next year’s deadline.
“If organics is going to market itself as a more responsible type of agriculture, then they need to live up to it,” said Patty Lovera, the assistant director of Food & Water Watch, a Washington-based consumer group.
I feel we are being abused by our food industries and that is definitely not right. Sick people need better answers to their problems. Please make laws that protect us from eating garbage.