Gregory Morrow wrote:

> There are no official standards for "organic", it's simply what the
> producer/seller decides it is...


Wrong. There are now Federal standards.

Before that, there were 1) state standards in some states and 2)
organizations which certified food as being organic.

I believe most, if not all, Western European countries also have laws
about what can be called organic.

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