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retailers should be included in the same recommendation, with some feeling there should not be any group certification allowed at all for retailers and others feeling that there could be, but the criteria should be different from grower groups. The NOSB recommendation for organic seed search put an additional paperwork burden on both growers and certifiers, and the NOSB is reviewing how best to avoid this in a subsequent proposal. Both of these recommendations were not voted upon at this meeting, with new proposals to be put forward at the next NOSB meeting in the fall. In addition, the aquaculture recommendation was also sent back to committee for further work, focusing specifically on whether the feeding of non USDA organic fish oil and fish meal to NOP certified organic fish could be allowed.

Additions to the National List. As with all items, no materials can be used until they are both approved by the NOSB and published in the Federal Register by the NOP. The following were approved for addition to the National List by the NOSB, but have not yet been published.

ON THE CROPS LIST 205.601

• Cheesewax as a production aid in log grown mushroom culture made without either ethylene-propylene co-polymer or synthetic colors.

In addition several sunset items were voted to be relisted for another 5 years.

ON THE LIVESTOCK LIST 205.603

• Fenbendazole (Parasiticide), with very strict limitations

• Methionine (for use only in organic poultry production until October 1, 2010)

ON THE PROCESSED PRODUCTS LIST 205.605 A AND B

• 205.605a Tartaric acid (made from grape wine)

• 205.605b Tartaric acid (made from Malic Acid)

• Sunset materials voted to be relisted for another 5 years: Agar-Agar, Animal Enzymes, Calcium Sulfate, Carrageenan, Glucono Delta Lactone, Cellulose.

ON THE PROCESSED PRODUCTS LIST 205.606 (agricultural items not commercially available as organic)

• Alcohol cooking wine (Marsala and Sherry)

• Pacific Kombu Seaweed (laminaria three species)

• Tragacanth Gum (water extracted)

Harriet Behar is the outreach coordinator for the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES)

( www.mosesorganic.org), where she promotes and works to expand organic agriculture through training and networking with farmers, educators and others interested in organic agriculture. MOSES offers several publications and a toll-free infomation line to producers with organic certification and production issues.

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Earthbound Farm’s Will Daniels
Joins OP’s Editorial Advisory Board

Organic Processing Magazine is happy to welcome Will Daniels to our Editorial Advisory Board. As the vice president of quality, food safety and organic integrity for Earthbound Farm, Daniels pioneered the testing program for raw products and finished goods. He also chairs the company’s Food Safety

Advisory Panel. Daniels ran his own food service consulting company before he joined Earthbound Farm in 1999. He’s a leader in the organic industry and serves as the current chair of the board of California Certified Organic Farmers, as president of CCOF’s Processor/Handler chapter, the board of the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement, and as a member of the Technical Advisory Committees of the United Fresh Produce Association.