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HEALTHY CHOICE:
SOUND BARRIER
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Saudi Arabia Looks To Organic Farming Methods
12 Foods You Should Always Buy Organic
Can High-Power Ultrasound Protect Produce from Pathogens?
Organic NEWSThe Good News
12 Foods You Should Always Buy Organic
Commission Proposes Strategy For Sustainable Bioeconomy In Europe
Strong Growth Of Organic Market In 2011
Romania Can Be Major Supplier Of Organic Food For German Market
Organics In Slovakia
The World Of Organic Agriculture 2012
Can High-Power Ultrasound Protect Produce From Pathogens?
Saudi Arabia Looks To Organic Farming Methods
The Advantages Of Organic Farming And Production For Farmers
The Advantages Of Organic Farming, Production And Distribution For Processors, Wholesale Trade And Retailers
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HEALTHY CHOICE:
SOUND BARRIER
one of the world’s driest countries
Saudi Arabia Looks To Organic Farming Methods
12 Foods You Should Always Buy Organic
Can High-Power Ultrasound Protect Pro-duce from Pathogens?
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12 Foods You Should Always Buy Organic
We have all heard time and time again
to “always choose organic” or that “organic is better.” We’ve learned to ‘eat this, not that’, and how to read labels. We put time and effort into preparing our meals, and exploring new vegan dishes for friends and family to try. And if any of you are like me, you pride yourself on being healthy and knowledge-able. You feel great after a healthy meal, or a good workout. But what if we are missing a key element to our health, a consider-
ably vital factor, at a fairly basic level?
When we purchase organics, we are
helping reduce the pesti-cides that harm our en-vironment. Eliminating these pesticides is crucial not only to the health of our environment, but also to our bodies as well. Studies have found links between high levels of pes-ticide intake and neuro-logical damage (including Parkinson’s Disease and Alzheimer’s), as well as en-docrine and reproductive disorders.
However, despite the documented health
and environmental im-pacts of pesticides, a com-mon concern about buying organic is how expensive it can be. Some families explain they simply cannot afford it! Understandable. However – there is always a solution.
The Environmental Working Group
releases annual studies that analyze data from the Department of Agricul-ture. They closely exam-ine pesticide residue on a large number of fruits and
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vegetables. They believe we can all signifi-cantly reduce our exposure to these harm-ful pesticides by approximately 80% if we purchase organic produce. But what if you can’t afford to buy all organic produce?
The following list summarizes the “dirt-iest” or most pesticide-laden produce
items. If you can only swing a few organic items at the grocery store each week, make sure to prioritize these fruits and vegeta-bles. (Kelsey McClelland)
The old saying “an apple a day keeps
the doctor away” now includes an important caveat. With more than 40 different pesti-cides detected, apples are consistently rated among the dirtiest produce items. With 7 known carcinogens, 19 suspected hormone disruptors, 10 neuro-toxins, and 6 develop-mental or reproductive toxins, non-organic
apples are a petri dish for negative health ef-fects in humans. Insect threats and fungus push farmers to spray several kinds of chemi-cals over their orchards. This means that you should also try to purchase organic apple juice and applesauce, as traces of pesticides have been found in them as well!
1. Apples
Nearly 60 kinds of pesticides have
been found on straw-berries! Given their delicate flesh and lack of a protective skin, many of the pesticides sprayed on strawberries can be found in the
final product. The ma-jority of these pesticides are suspected hormone disruptors. If organic strawberries are un-available or too expen-sive, pineapple and kiwi are two of the lowest pesticide fruits.
2. Strawberries
More than 60 kinds of pesti-
cides have been found on peaches. It seems due to this tree fruits fuzzy skin and vulner-ability to insects and mold, the majority of these pesticides are dis-appointingly retained. Can’t find organic
peaches? Shopping at farmers markets is a great idea. While organics aren’t always guaranteed – we can alternatively discuss the use of pesticides with the farmers them-selves, to help make a more informed buying decision.
3. Peaches
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4. CeleryUSDA testing has discovered
more than 60 different pesticides on celery ( link ). A whopping 13 of these pesticides are known cancer caus-
ing carcinogens. If you can’t find organic celery, try using onions or broccoli for a lower-pesticide alternative.
With 48 types of pesticides,
Spinach is the leading contender in the leafy greens category. Two of the most commonly used types of pesticides found in spinach are permethrin and di-methoate, which are both potential human carcinogens. With over
exposure to these pesti-cides, we have increased chances in developing many types of disor-ders including those of the brain, and nervous system. Alternatively, canned spinach has been proven to carry less pesticide residues when organics are not an option.
5. Spinach
Yet another tree fruit found with
high levels of pesticide residue, USDA data has found 33 different pesticides on nectar-ines, and 7 of these
are known carcino-gens. If organic nec-tarines aren’t available, Pineapples, papaya, or mangos make for great alternatives.
6. Nectarines
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Over 30 pesticides have been found
on grapes. A large portion of these pesti-cides are neurotoxins and potential hormone disruptors. Imported
grapes have shown to carry even higher levels of pesticide residues. When organic grapes are not an option, do-mestically grown grapes are a smarter purchase.
7. Grapes
Nearly 50 kinds of pesticides
have been detected on sweet bell peppers – and yes all colors included! This cook-ing favourite veggie retains 11 known or
probable carcinogens, 26 suspected hormone disruptors, 13 neuro-toxins, and even car-ries a high level of bee toxins. With numbers like these, its Organic pepper or no pepper!
8. Sweet Bell Peppers
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America’s favourite vegetable, the
potato! While potatoes are a vegetable of the ground, and generally perceived as safer, the USDA data reveals
37 pesticide residues detected on the potato. Sweet potatoes are on the “Clean 15” list, and make a great alterna-tive!
9. White potatoes
Coming in at #10 on our list, with
just over 50 types of pesticides detected is the blueberry. Surpris-ingly, frozen blueber-ries have proved to be slightly less con-taminated, however, obvious alternatives like cranberries and
raspberries are still high in pesticides, even though they didn’t make the dirty dozen list. Feeling the blueberry blues? When organics are not an option, consider using bananas to top up your morning cereal.
10. Blueberries
With more than 50 pesticide
residues found, lettuce joins Spinach in the leafy greens category. The next time you’re making a salad and the organic lettuce cannot be found, cabbage is ana excellent alterna-
tive. Very few sprays are required on cabbage, and luckily it doesn’t retain much of them. It does however retain beta carotene, an anti-oxidant known for its possible cancer fighting attributes!
11. Lettuce
A true superfood, Kale is known for
its many health ben-efits, including several cancer fighting antioxi-dants. Unfortunately we do more harm than good by consuming non organic Kale.
USDA testing shows 55 types of pesticides found on kale for the past 2 years consecu-tively. Safer alterna-tives to kale include cabbage, broccoli or dandelion greens.
12. Kale / Collard Greens
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European Commission - Press release
Commission proposes strategy for sustainable bioeconomy in Europe
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policy makers and stakeholders to work more closely together.
The term “Bioeconomy” means an econo-my using biological resources from the land and sea, as well as waste, as inputs to food and feed, industrial and energy production. It also covers the use of bio-based processes for sustainable in-dustries. Bio-waste for example has considerable potential as an alternative to chemical fertilizers or for conversion into bio-energy, and can meet 2% of the EU renewable energy target.
The EU bioeconomy already has a turn-over of nearly €2 trillion and employs more than 22 million people, 9% of total employment in the EU. It includes agriculture, forestry, fisher-ies, food and pulp and paper production, as well as parts of chemical, biotech-nological and energy industries. Each euro invested in EU-funded bioeconomy research and innovation is estimated to trigger €10 of value added in bioeconomy sectors by 2025.
Brussels, 13 February 2012
The European Commission has today ad-opted a strategy to shift the European economy towards greater and more sustainable use of re-newable resources. With the world population approaching 9 billion by 2050 and natural re-sources finite, Europe needs renewable biologi-cal resources for secure and healthy food and feed, as well as for materials, energy, and other products. The Commission’s strategy and ac-tion plan, “Innovating for Sustainable Growth: a Bioeconomy for Europe”, outlines a coherent, cross-sectoral and inter-disciplinary approach to the issue. The goal is a more innovative and low-emissions economy, reconciling demands for sus-tainable agriculture and fisheries, food security, and the sustainable use of renewable biological resources for industrial purposes, while ensur-ing biodiversity and environmental protection. The plan therefore focuses on three key aspects: developing new technologies and processes for the bioeconomy; developing markets and com-petitiveness in bioeconomy sectors; and pushing
“Europe needs to make the transition to a post-petroleum economy. Greater use of renewable resources is no longer just an option, it is a neces-sity. We must drive the transition from a fossil-based to a bio-based society with research and innovation as the motor. This is good for our environ-ment, our food and energy security, and for Europe’s competitiveness for the future,” said Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Máire Geoghegan-Quinn.
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1) Investment in research, innovation and skills for the bioeconomy. This should in-clude EU funding, national funding, private investment and enhancing synergies with other policy initiatives.
2) Development of markets and compet-itiveness in bioeconomy sectors by a sustainable intensification of primary production, conver-sion of waste streams into value-added prod-ucts, as well as mutual learning mechanisms for improved production and resource efficiency. As an example, food waste costs the European taxpayer between €55 and €90 per tonne to dis-pose of, and produces 170 million tons of CO2. This waste could be transformed into bio-energy or other bio-based products, creating jobs and growth.
3) Reinforced policy coordination and stakeholder engagement, through the creation of a Bioeconomy Panel, a Bioeconomy Observa-tory and regular Stakeholder Conferences;
The strategy seeks synergies and comple-mentaries with other policy areas, instruments and funding sources which share and address the same objectives, such as the Cohesion Funds, the Common Agricultural and Fisheries Policies (CAP and CFP), the Integrated Maritime Policy
(IMP), environmental, industrial, employment, energy and health policies. The preparation of the Strategy was led by Commissioner Geoghe-gan-Quinn with the support of four other Com-missioners: Vice-President Tajani and Commis-sioners Cioloş, Damanaki and Potočnik. With Research and Innovation at the heart of the Strategy, it will first be presented to EU Mem-ber States at the Competitiveness Council on 21 February 2012.
EU Member States including Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands already have Bioeconomy Strategies in place. On the international stage, Canada, China, South Africa and the US either have or are planning their own ambitious strategies.
The Commission’s proposal is one of the operational proposals under the Innovation Union and Resource–efficient Europe flagships of the EU 2020 strategy. The need to increase public funding for bioeconomy research and in-novation has been recognized under the Com-mission’s future research programme Horizon 2020: €4.7 billion has been proposed for the Challenge “Food security, sustainable agricul-ture, marine and maritime research, and the bioeconomy”, with complementary funding in other areas of Horizon 2020.
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The Strategy
For further information: MEMO/12/97
Europe 2020: http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020
Resource-efficient Europe: http://ec.europa.eu/resource-efficient-europe
Innovation Union: http://ec.europa.eu/innovation-union
Horizon 2020: www.ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020
Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research, and the bioeconomy
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According to provisional data for 2011, compiled by the German Federation
of the Organic Food Industry BÖLW (www.boelw.de), the organic area grew by only 2.3 percent, increasing from of 990’702 hectares in 2010 to 1.01 million hectares in 2011. For farms, the growth rate was 4.8 percent; 23’000 farms managed organically in 2011.
In 2011, the organic market grew at a faster rate than the organic land and
number of farms. Compared with 2010, the or-ganic sales grew by nine percent. Revenues grew from 6.02 billion Euros in 2010 to 6.59 billion Euros in 2011. “This growth is encouraging. The bad news is, however, that the development of organic farming in Germany lags behind the
Germany
Strong growth of organic market in 2011
market development,” said Alexander Gerber, Director of BÖLW. The logical consequence is that the import share continues to rise: “The im-port share is, for example, for cereals 15 percent, for potatoes and carrots 26 percent and 5 percent for apples,” said Alexander Gerber. The latter data are based on a study carried out by the Ag-ricultural Market Information Company (AMI) and partners. Further details are available from a presentation of Diana Schaack of AMI as shown at the BioFach Congress event “The global mar-ket for organic food” of February 16, 2012.
The data on German organic agricul-ture and the German organic market
were presented at a BÖLW press conference at BioFach 2012. At this press conference, both the data for Germany as well as the latest data on organic agriculture and markets world-wide were presented. The data are annually compiled by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (www.fibl.org) and the International Federation of Organic Agriculture (www.ifoam.org); they are published in the yearbook “The World of Organic Agriculture”.
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Strong growth of organic market in 2011
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Romania can be a major supplier of
organic food for the German market, one of the largest con-sumers of such food in the world, said the German MPs during the meeting with the representatives of the Associa-tion of Organic Farming Op-erators ‘Bio Romania.’
‘The German MPs asked to be
briefed on organic farming in Romania and about the ex-ports made in the European Union in this sector. Germany is one of the largest consumers of organic food in the world
and resorts to imports from China to cover the domestic consumption, although they would rather import from a EU member state. According to them, Romania can be a major supplier of organic food for the German market,’ presi-dent of the aforementioned association Marian Cioceanu told Agerpres.
He added that dep-uty Friedrich Os-
tendorf became an honorary member of the Bio Romania Association for initiating and working towards the adop-tion of the legislation meant to
separate the organic farming from that of the genetically engineered organisms.
Bio Romania presi-dent also an-
nounced they are going to start the dialogue with the relevant institutions such as the Minis-try of Health and the National Sanitary-Veterinary and Food Safety Authority to reduce the iodine intake among popula-tion as the consumers are basi-cally forced to eat food with a large quantity of iodine, which might cause diseases.
‘If the authorities in Romania do not lis-
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ten to us, we will appeal to the European Commission,’ said Marian Cioceanu who added that ‘it is illogical that you should force an entire country to have iodine just to prevent 7,000 to 12,000 cases of hypo-thyroidism a year.’
According to Bio Ro-mania president,
due to iodized salt, the io-dine is virtually everywhere is consumed in large quantities, which is more severe. It is met in bread and bakery products, meats and processed meat, in dairy products and basically in all the products of the food industry.
The local market of the organic foods
reported an annual constant growth of 20 percent, although the consumption of organic food accounts for one percent-age point of the total food. The surfaces cultivated with organic food in Romania are 17 times larger as compared to 2000 and 13.3 percent larger compared to 2010, accounting for 2.25 percent of Romania’s total agricultural surface.
Currently, Romania exports most of
its organic food ranging from honey to edible oil, vegetable fats and oils and fruit, more
than 90 percent of it going to European countries, where they are processed to be sold to a third party as a finite prod-uct. The main destinations are Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, the northern European coun-tries, but the Bio Romania Association attended this year the largest fair of organic food in the United States which is the largest market for organic food, and two economic mis-sions in Japan and Dubai in the Middle East.
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Turn Here Sweet Corn
Author: Atina Diffley, 2012.
A master class in organic farming, a lesson in entre-preneurship, a love story, and a legal thrillerIn telling her story of working the land, Atina Diffley reminds us that we live in relationships—with the earth, plants and animals, families and communities. A memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges from weather to corporate politics, this is a firsthand history of getting in at the “ground level” of organic farming.
Turn Here Sweet Corn is an unexpected page-turner. Atina Diffley’s compel-
ling account of her life as a Minnesota organic farmer is deeply moving not
only from a personal standpoint but also from the political. Diffley reveals the
evident difficulties of small-scale organic farming but is inspirational about
its value to people and the planet. (Marion Nestle, author of What to Eat)Source : www.upress.edu
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TRADING OF ORGANIC CEREALS IN WHOLE WORLD The organic sector in Slovakia is de-
veloping well. Health food shops were the first to sell or-ganic products in the country in 2002. Since the following year, organic food has also been available in supermarket chains. Today, health food shops and supermarkets share the market on almost equal parts, while other sales chan-nels don’t play an important role. The distribution areas for organic food are mainly the capital Bratislava and the financially strong West of Slo-vakia.
The demand for special products
has risen in health food stores, and organic products with a healthy focus profit from this trend, like juices, sugar- and gluten-free products, and ar-ticles suitable for people with allergies, EcoConnect reports. Supermarkets offer mostly basic organic items. Slova-kian consumers are generally not well-informed about or-ganic products, and mention
“health” and “trend and style” as the main reasons for buy-ing organics. So far, there are no advertising campaigns for
organic products at a national level.
Nine (9 %) of the total agricultural
land was cultivated organically in 2010, equal to 144.000 ha. Grassland covers two-thirds of the organic area. The rest is farmland, mostly for feed pro-duction and grains. The most common organic vegetables are asparagus, carrots, pars-nips and beetroot, which are often used for the production of baby food. The number of organic businesses in Slovakia has risen to 486 in 2010 from 127 in 2004. The number of
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65 organic processors were registered in 2010, up from four in 2010
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processors has risen - 65 or-ganic processors were regis-tered in 2010, up from four in 2001.
A large proportion of the organic food produced in Slovakia is exported: milk to the Czech Republic, ice cream to Germany, fruits and veg-etables to Austria, and organic animals to Italy. Some of the foodstuff which is processed abroad is then re-imported back to Slovakia. All of the or-
ganic medical plants and herbs produced in Slovakia are also processed there and then ex-ported. Organic food imports account for approximately 70 % of the market, particu-larly from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Austria and Germany. The turnover of the organic market in Slovakia was about 4 million euros in 2009 (about 0.1 % of the total food market). There is currently one private certification body in
Slovakia, and two others are on the way to being licensed.
More detailed informa-tion about the organic mar-ket in Slovakia including the main processors, exporters, wholesalers, retailers and other possible business partners can be found on the EkoConnect website in German, and some information is also available in English.
100% of organic medical plants and herbs are processed in Slovakia and then exported – for example in tea bags. 50% of the organic vegetables are sold outside Slovakia. In 2002 most of the organic grain was exported, but nowadays approximately 75% of the organic grain is being fed to the farm animals or sold conventionally. Just approximately 5% of the organic raw materials are exported nowadays, mostly to Germany and Switzerland. Due to a rising demand for organic raw materials in Western Europe grain exports from Slovakia to other EU countries are expected to increase.
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Thirty-seven million hectares of agricul-
tural land worldwide are farmed organically. The global market for organic food is estimated at 44.5 billion euros. It grew by ap-proximately 8 % in 2010, FibL report. These figures are from the 12th edition of “The World of Organic Agriculture” and are based on 2010 data. This com-prehensive standard reference book includes organic agricul-ture statistics from 160 countries and was released at BioFach in Nuremberg.
The largest growth of organic agricul-
tural land was in Europe, where
the area increased by 0.8 million hectares and is now at 10 million hectares (+9 % compared with 2009). In Asia, organic farm-land decreased. Overall, how-ever, global organic agricultural land has not changed compared with the 2009 data. The organic arable and permanent crop area increased worldwide by approxi-mately 6 %. Those crops are of particular relevance for the or-ganic market. For arable crops, cereals are the most important crop group (2.5 million hectares). Oilseeds cover 0.5 million hect-ares, and protein crops and veg-etables 0.3 million hectares each. The key permanent crops (almost
3 million hectares) in terms of land under organic management are coffee (0.7 million hectares), olives (0.5 million hectares) and cocoa (0.3 million hectares).
One third of the global organic
agricultural land is in Oceania (33 %), followed by Europe (27 %) and Latin America (23 %). Australia is the country with the biggest organic agricultural area (12 million hectares), followed by Argentina (4.2 million hectares) and the USA (1.9 million hect-ares). The countries with the larg-est share of organic agricultural land of all farmland are the Falk-land Islands (36 %), followed by
2012ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
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Globally 1.6 million producers farm using organic methods
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Liechtenstein (27 %) and Austria (20 %).
Globally 1.6 million producers farm us-
ing organic methods, and ap-proximately 80 % of these are in developing countries. As in pre-vious years, the countries with the most producers are India (picture), Uganda, Mexico and Ethiopia. The market research company Organic Monitor es-timated the global market for organic products in 2010 at 59.1 billion US dollars (44.5 billion euros). Compared with 2009, the market increased by roughly 8 % in Europe and the United States.
The leading market is the United States of America with 20.2 bil-lion euros. In Europe, where 19.6 billion euros were spent, Ger-many leads at 6 billion euros, fol-lowed by France (3.4 billion eu-ros) and the United Kingdom (2 billion euros). The countries with the highest annual per capita spending were Switzerland and Denmark with more than 140 euros.
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that in countries where organic agriculture is institutionally well embedded, there is a constant growth of the market and of the
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Can High-Power Ultrasound Protect Produce from Pathogens?
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Organic produce - have pushed the industry to seek new solutions for food safety
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If pathogens are killed in the water, they don’t move through the water. It’s controlling the quality of the wash water. That’s what’s going on here.
Perfectly sanitized dimpled spinach leaves or tender greens like baby lettuce
has been high on the wish list of the $3.1-billion bagged salad industry since its inception. The race to develop better wash systems for cleaning took off in earnest in 2006, after the high profile E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to bagged spin-ach killed five people and sickened more than 200, leaving the leafy green industry with a black eye and an ego-bruising $350-million price tag in recalls and lost sales.
Advances to date in cleaning salad greens have mostly centered on chlo-
rine-based washes and plenty of testing through-out the supply chain. But for organic salad producers, such as Earthbound Farm, a wash ad-ditive may not be an option because it has not been approved for organic use. So the company teamed up with the Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH) at the Illinois Institute of Tech-nology to look for solutions outside the bag. One
of the most promising: high-power ultrasound.
When applied to leafy greens, high-powered ultrasound creates mil-
lions of tiny bubbles along a leaf ’s surface. As they burst at a rate of a thousand times a second, they provide high-energy shock waves that can get into the leaf ’s nooks and crannies to dislodge pathogens, which are then whisked away in the sanitized wash. (Earthbound is looking at citrus and peracetic acid–based sanitizers, both sanc-tioned for use with organic products.)
“Mostly we’re after E. coli O157:H7; norovirus that causes winter
vomiting, and we’ll continue working with sal-monella and Listeria as well,” says IFSH director, Robert Brackett.
Will Daniels, senior vice president of operations and organic integ-
rity at Earthbound, says they hope to move the equipment out of the lab and apply it to their process within the next few months. “That’s as-
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suming the pilot studies be-tween now and then are suc-cessful and show we don’t end up with pureed lettuce at the end of the line. That would be a deal breaker,” Daniels adds.
It’s not the first time high-powered ul-
trasound has been used as a sanitizer. The wine industry has used it to clean oak bar-rels since 2006. Employing ultrasound, however, does not guarantee sterile produce, and Earthbound says they will not put forward such a claim.
But early results about its effective-
ness in eliminating pathogens are promising—and come at a particularly key time. The U.S. Department of Agricul-ture’s Microbiological Data Program is on the federal chopping block thanks to budget cuts, although it cur-rently tests more than 15,000 samples of fruits and vegeta-bles a year from 11 different produce points across the U.S.
Others in the indus-try are exploring
other sanitizing techniques that include ultraviolet light, cold plasma and high pressure to eliminate pathogens on pro-duce. The developers at Earth-
bound declined to specify the cost of the new ultrasound procedure compared with tra-ditional methods but it will undoubtedly be more expen-sive—by how much remains unclear as testing continues.
Organizations like the Center for
Produce Safety at the Uni-versity of California, Davis, have been dispensing research grants to study produce safety.
“If you think about a 50-acre field of spinach, it’s grown out-side and is likely to get con-taminated somehow—either through dust-borne E. coli, overflying geese, pigs that get loose. That’s the functional re-ality of things that are grown outside,” says Bill Marler, a Seattle-based attorney that specializes in food safety cases.
Even if a small portion of a commercial field is in-fected by a pathogen, the way produce is harvested, bundled together and washed means cross-contamination can esca-late a problem, unless it is de-tected early.
Robert Whitaker, chief science and
technology officer for the Pro-duce Marketing Association says there has been an em-phasis on preventive controls throughout points in the in-dustry’s supply chain—from harvest, cooling, processing, storage and distribution cen-ters, all the way to the con-sumer’s home.
One of those points are washes,”
Whitaker explains. “You want to keep the wash water from being a source of contamina-tion. ”
Daniels says if it works in practice, the technique will not be kept proprietary for Earthbound’s use. All produc-ers will be able to undertake a leaf zap to keep the bugs away from the consumer. (Author: Clare Leschin-Hoar)
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Saudi Arabia Looks To Organic Farming Methods
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At the moment, less than 0.5 percent of agricultural land in Saudi Arabia is farmed according to organic methods – but things are changing.
Riyadh (dpa) – Farming in Saudi Arabia has long been considered an ecological
nightmare due to the country’s high temperatures and arid climate, in which cowsheds are air-conditioned and non-renewable water sources used to irrigate wheat crops.
But organic agriculture is slowly gaining in popularity – not least because it helps
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Saad bin Abdullah, who supervises the kingdom’s organic farming development
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“This farming technique is important, because it helps to curb the effects of
conventional agriculture, which uses chemical fertilizers,” the official told dpa. According to him, organic farming is also expected to reduce water use by 70 to 80 percent.
In 2008, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Agriculture created a Department of
Organic Agriculture (DOA), which has been tasked with applying the newly established Saudi Organic Farming Legislation. Government support has already prompted more than 60 farmers to switch to organic farming methods in recent years. “More than 300 (more) people will shift to the organic agriculture in the coming years,” Saad bin Abdullah predicted.
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sustainability,” says Marco Hartmann, a German agricultural economist. Hartmann works for the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), which advises the Saudi government on the development of organic agriculture.
At the moment, less than 0.5 percent of agricultural land in Saudi Arabia is
farmed according to organic methods – but things are changing. The government has ended some of the excesses formerly practiced in the largely desert country, which cultivated wheat and vegetables on a large scale for export. Although Saudi Arabia still has huge farms with thousands of high-yielding cows for milk production, the industrial-scale production of feed has been prohibited following the withdrawal of subventions for wheat growers. Vegetable exports were also stopped to slow down the rapid depletion of fossil groundwater supplies – underground water supplies built up in prehistoric times that are not
renewed by the present-day climate. Saudi farmers source water from their own wells and do not have to pay any levies, which has been a major reason for high levels of water wastage. “Conventional farming methods in Saudi Arabia mostly involve the use of sprinklers to spray the fields of crops with water,” Hartmann said. “Date palms are watered using the so-called flooding technique. There is a huge amount of wastage with both methods, as a large percentage of the water simply evaporates in the intense heat.” Organic farmers, by contrast, use the drip irrigation method. “The water efficiency rate reaches between 70 and 80 percent compared to the 50 to 60 percent achieved with the conventional methods,” said Hartmann. There are still no state subsidies available to Saudi organic farmers, but that could change in the future, as the country wants organic farming to account for 5 per cent of its agricultural industry by 2017.
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