{"id":20918,"date":"2017-07-31T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T04:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=20918"},"modified":"2017-07-30T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T14:57:00","slug":"fraudulent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2017\/07\/fraudulent\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Action: Stop Fraudulent Organic Food Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, July 31, 2017) \u00a0At a time when the U.S. market demands more organic corn and soybeans than are supplied by domestic organic <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18980\" src=\"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/organic-integrity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/organic-integrity.jpg 200w, https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/organic-integrity-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>growers, those same growers are threatened by the flooding of the market with cheaper fraudulent grains. The resulting impacts of eliminating market opportunities while at the same time threatening the value of the organic label hurt organic farmers in this country.<\/p>\n<p>The National Organic Program (NOP) must take action to protect the organic label.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/org2.salsalabs.com\/dia\/track.jsp?key=-1&amp;url_num=2&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cornucopia.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F07%2FOFARM_TalkingPoints.pdf\">Organic Farmers\u2019 Agency for Relationship Marketing<\/a> (OFARM), the U.S. currently produces only about 60% of the organic corn and 10-30% of the organic soybeans the market demands, while demand is increasing by about 14% per year. Meanwhile, the U.S. market is being flooded with fraudulent \u201corganic\u201d corn and soybeans. In May, the <a href=\"http:\/\/org2.salsalabs.com\/dia\/track.jsp?key=-1&amp;url_num=3&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fthe-labels-said-organic-but-these-massive-imports-of-corn-and-soybeans-werent%2F2017%2F05%2F12%2F6d165984-2b76-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html%3Futm_term%3D.e9015cec4392\">Washington Post <\/a>documented three large shipments \u2013totaling 7 percent of annual organic corn imports and 4 percent of organic soybean imports\u2014 originating from questionable overseas certification and fraud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/action.beyondpesticides.org\/p\/dia\/action4\/common\/public\/?action_KEY=25179\"><strong>&gt;&gt;&gt;Act now to tell NOP Deputy Administrator Miles McEvoy, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, and your Congressional delegation to protect the organic label for the sake of farmers and consumers!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OFARM says, \u201cFor over two years, organic grain producers have seen their prices, market opportunities and bottom-lines on their farms decline due to fraudulent imports. The losses to the twelve Midwestern state organic grain producers (ND, SD, NE, KS, MO, IL, IA, WI, IN, MI, MN, OH) totals over $150 million in lost income for the crop years 2015 and 2016 and if all 48 states and 2017 income losses are included, it is over $250 million. This situation is unsustainable and will not grow the domestic supply of organic grain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>USDA must exercise its authority to enforce existing regulations and develop additional stringent regulatory oversight procedures to fulfill its obligations under the Organic Foods Production Act and safeguard the integrity of the USDA organic seal. <a href=\"http:\/\/org2.salsalabs.com\/dia\/track.jsp?key=-1&amp;url_num=5&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cornucopia.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F07%2FImportsCitizenPetition.pdf\">USDA must immediately<\/a>:<br \/>\n\u2981\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Enforce the currently enacted regulations to ensure imports comply with the U.S. organic standards;<br \/>\n\u2981\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Implement additional regulations to deter and prevent the import of fraudulent organic products; and<br \/>\n\u2981\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Regulate third-party certifiers and equivalent agencies in other countries administering USDA organic standards.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a farmer who has been harmed by import fraud, please add your story to the letter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/action.beyondpesticides.org\/p\/dia\/action4\/common\/public\/?action_KEY=25179\"><strong>&gt;&gt;&gt;Act now to tell NOP Deputy Administrator Miles McEvoy, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, and your Congressional delegation to protect the organic label for the sake of farmers and consumers!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for taking action to protect organic farmers and consumers from fraudulent imports.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/the-labels-said-organic-but-these-massive-imports-of-corn-and-soybeans-werent\/2017\/05\/12\/6d165984-2b76-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html?utm_term=.b730948947dc\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, July 31, 2017) \u00a0At a time when the U.S. market demands more organic corn and soybeans than are supplied by domestic organic growers, those same growers are threatened by the flooding of the market with cheaper fraudulent grains. The resulting impacts of eliminating market opportunities while at the same time threatening the value of the organic label hurt organic farmers in this country. The National Organic Program (NOP) must take action to protect the organic label. According to the Organic Farmers\u2019 Agency for Relationship Marketing (OFARM), the U.S. currently produces only about 60% of the organic corn and 10-30% of the organic soybeans the market demands, while demand is increasing by about 14% per year. Meanwhile, the U.S. market is being flooded with fraudulent \u201corganic\u201d corn and soybeans. In May, the Washington Post documented three large shipments \u2013totaling 7 percent of annual organic corn imports and 4 percent of organic soybean imports\u2014 originating from questionable overseas certification and fraud. &gt;&gt;&gt;Act now to tell NOP Deputy Administrator Miles McEvoy, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, and your Congressional delegation to protect the organic label for the sake of farmers and consumers! OFARM says, \u201cFor over two years, organic grain producers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,2,1,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-alternativesorganics","category-uncategorized","category-us-department-of-agriculture-usda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Take Action: Stop Fraudulent Organic Food Imports - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2017\/07\/fraudulent\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Take Action: Stop Fraudulent Organic Food Imports - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Beyond Pesticides, July 31, 2017) \u00a0At a time when the U.S. market demands more organic corn and soybeans than are supplied by domestic organic growers, those same growers are threatened by the flooding of the market with cheaper fraudulent grains. 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The founders, who established Beyond Pesticides (originally as National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides) as a nonprofit membership organization in 1981, felt that without the existence of such an organized, national network, local, state and national pesticide policy would become, under chemical industry pressure, increasingly unresponsive to public health and environmental concerns. Beyond Pesticides believes that people must have a voice in decisions that affect them directly. We believe decisions should not be made for us by chemical companies or by decision-makers who either do not have all of the facts or refuse to consider them. Learn more about our work, read A Year in Review\u20142021, our accomplishments are your victories! Beyond Pesticides seeks to protect healthy air, water, land, and food for ourselves and future generations. By forging ties with governments, nonprofits, and people who rely on these natural resources, we reduce the need for unnecessary pesticide use and protect public health and the environment. Beyond Pesticides provides hands-on services to the public and supports local action by: identifying and interpreting hazards; and, designing safe pest management programs. With the information provided by Beyond Pesticides, people may not only be able to make informed choices and adopt practices that protect themselves and their families from unnecessary exposure to pesticides, but they will be able to effect changes on community-wide pest management decisions and policies that govern pesticide use, such as pesticide uses in parks, schools, for community insect control and along roadsides. 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