Month: October 2010

FDA sends letters to farms responsible for massive egg recall

In August more than a half a billion eggs (550 million) contaminated with salmonella and sold by two Iowa egg producers were been recalled from markets in 17 states. Estimates of the number of people who became ill exceed 1500. This week the FDA sent letters to Hillandale Farms and Wright County Egg/Quality Egg Company.

Good People and Good Food – OTA Honors

Theresa Marquez of Organic Valley and Bob Quinn of Kamut® International received Organic Trade Association’s (OTA’s) prestigious Organic Leadership Awards for 2010 on October 15, during OTA Member Days activities at Natural Products Expo East.

Sustainable Agriculture Standard Development Going Forward

The Leonardo Academy is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited standards development organization that is facilitating the Sustainable Agriculture Standard development process. And that process recently stalled recently when 11 of the 60 member organizations pulled out, saying that the group developing the standards “…is dominated by environmental groups, certification consultants, agro-ecology and organic farming proponents. These groups have neither the vision nor desire to speak for mainstream agriculture.”