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Also keep an eye on the links below for latest National Organic Program
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Links:
Center for Food Safety (5/28/00)
National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture (5/20/00)
http://www.organicconsumers.org Originally "Pure Food Campaign" (4/20/00)
letter re standards issues (added 5/28/00)
Claire Cummings' Website San Francisco activist: lawyer, writer, and food and farming editor for The Morning Show on KPFA radio (Berkeley).
**Below, checked as of 12/8/98 for updated information:Organic Trade Association ("OTA Questions Timing of USDA 'Issue Papers'". Also excellent "Top Nine Threats to Organic Integrity" list)
Wild Oats (They had a GREAT automated e-mailing setup for the original comment process.)
Save Organic Standards Campaign (Campaign for Food Safety/Pure Food Campaign page - very active organization )
Organic Farmers Marketing Association
Save Organic Standards- Reference Page (Concise, well-thought-out presentation)
---Auto-generate a set of letters about the proposed global Codex Alimentarius food standard----
**Links from original April '98 USDA-NOP putsch (may or may not have updates):Organic Materials Review Institute - Chemicals and Materials allowed by the NOSB vs NOP compared!
Save Organics Foundation Excellent Anti-NOP site! Check their entertaining "History" section!
MOTHER JONES has an internal USDA memo that shows how biotech special interests "own" the NOP. Great website!
California Certified Organic Farmers (Includes an interesting discussion group)
Organic Gardening Magazine (Excellent! Don't miss it!: Background & explanations, letters from experts)
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements
Californians for Pesticide Reform
Discussion on USDA's rule (Some hotshots' views on the issues)
Don't Panic, Eat Organic (amazing collection of info)
California Dept. of Food and Agriculture (dates not kept current, but useful information)
