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New research released by the Biological Farmers Association of Australia (BFA) showed farm-gate organic sales in Australia grew by 80 per cent since 2004, with the industry breaking through a $0.5Bn retail value mark for the first time.
The research was published in the Australian Organic Market Report 2008, and found that the organics sector is [...]

Can an organic kiwifruit grown in New Zealand and flown half way around the world to the UK still be classed as organic?
Over the last few months Britain’s main organic certification body, The Soil Association, has been debating if they should be certifying air freighted produce because of the high pollution caused from air transports [...]

Up until now food labelling in Australia has not been legislated. Any company could label its food products organic, biodynamic or free range even if this wasn’t the case and with the organic boom this has become common place on the grocery shelves.
Standards Australia will be launching a scheme next year which will require proof [...]

Currently in Australia there is no law against labelling your product ‘organic’, any food company or farmer can do it whether it is organic or not. With the Australian organic industry now worth $450 million a year the Australian Consumers Association accused the Government of being slack of not regulating the word organic and as [...]

Biodynamic (shortened for biologically dynamic) agriculture adopts similar farming principles to organic farming but has a spiritual twist. It actually pre-dates the term ‘organic farming’ and is based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner in 1924. Steiner believed that chemicals introduced into farming were destroying the way plants grow as ‘dead’ fertilizers were being [...]

Under new EC legislation, organic produce sold in EU member states will soon be required to carry the EU logo.
The European Commission has accepted a proposal for new organic production regulations that endeavour to make it easier for consumers to identify legitimate organic produce in the EU.
The use of the logo or the wording ?EU [...]