Recently, reporters learned from relevant departments in Fuxin City that the total number of the city's “Three Products” certified products has reached 115, with 31 certified enterprises and a base area of 4.76 million mu.
In recent years, Fuxin City has focused on pollution-free agricultural products...
Hubei Province formulated its 12th Five-Year Plan based on the strategy of “building the province through quality”.
Recently, Hubei Province published the full text of its Outline of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development (hereinafter referred to as the “Outline”), officially incorporating the “improving the province through quality” strategy into the Twelfth Five-Year Plan. The “Outline” runs through the principle of "winning through quality",...
New Australian organic standards issued!!
In March 2011, Australia's Biological Farmers of Australia (BFA) released the 2010 Australian Certified Organic Standard (ACOS). This is an updated version following the 2006 edition of the Australian Organic Standard. This new...
How to effectively manage organic peanut white grubs
Organic food production is a major direction in the development of modern agriculture. In organic peanut cultivation, the control of grubs is a key focus in the management of peanut pests and diseases. In recent years, our city has adopted a variety of methods in organic peanut cultivation, achieving remarkable results and ensuring the quality of organic peanuts.
Consumers focus on the concept of food health, organic food sales are on the rise
A few years ago, organic food was still a nascent concept for the general public, but nowadays, with the improvement of people's living standards and their pursuit of healthy, high-quality diets, organic food is gradually making its way onto ordinary people's dining tables. Journalists recently learned in Changchun, Jilin Province that...
State Council: General safety standards for food additives expected to be issued this year
Using the Food Safety Law as our yardstick, we must apply severe penalties to cure chaotic situations, increase the severity of punishment, genuinely address the issue of low costs of violation, make lawbreakers pay a heavy price, and truly create a deterrent effect.
Regarding prominent food safety incidents, regardless of where they occur...
How Taiwan transformed from the “pesticide kingdom” of the 1990s into an ecological island
Key point: Organic food and organic farms have become all the rage in Taiwan, and Taiwanese people are now throwing themselves into developing organic agriculture with the same drive they once used to develop the economy. As you sip a cup of organic herbal tea in Taiwan, it is hard to imagine that the island was once known as the “pesticide kingdom”. “Pesticide pollution in Taiwan was so severe, and back then...".
Organic baby formula becomes a new trend for parents
“Fortunately, I stockpiled a case of Meiji baby formula not long ago, so the little one can still have it for a while, but once this box is finished, we'll have to switch brands. The pollution from the nuclear radiation leak is bound to affect the milk source to some extent, isn't it?” Ms Wu, who lives in Jinqiao, Pudong, told reporters. Recently, she has been asking around everywhere for baby formula with a light taste...
Our organisation was accepted by the 2011 cnas (CNAS) accreditation Surveillance Office audit
From 1 to 2 April 2011, an inspection team led by Teacher Liu Qihe, Director audit of the China National Accreditation cnas (CNAS), with Teacher Guo Junyong, a full-time audit officer of CNAS and member of the CNAS Professional Committee, as a member, came to...
Developing eco-organic agriculture: Dalian sees the rise of the membership-based agricultural produce sales model
A new agricultural product sales method of directly delivering organic vegetables to citizens' homes is emerging in our city. Yesterday, reporters saw at the Dalian Tianzu Modern Demonstration Farm in Gelu Village, Dazheng Town, Zhuanghe, that staff members were packing pak choi, celery, lettuce and other vegetables into boxes. Over an hour later, these boxes filled with organic vegetables, weighing about...
In the 2010 cnca spot checks on organic products, all FOFCC-certified products tested were found to be compliant!
In order to ascertain the quality status of organic products in our country and promote the continuous improvement of the effectiveness of organic product certification in our country, cnca, following the special supervision and spot checks on organic products in 2008 and 2009, once again organised and carried out a survey in 2010 on four major categories of organic products, namely rice/paddy, edible fungi, tea, and bee products...
Local quality supervision bureaux and quarantine bureaux carry out special inspections on organic products, focusing on strengthening the supervision of imported organic food
Recently, provincial and municipal bureaus of quality and technical supervision and entry-exit inspection and quarantine bureaus have successively carried out special supervision and inspections on organic products, focusing on the validity of certification of organic products sold in circulation sectors such as large shopping malls and supermarkets. The key targets for investigation and punishment include the counterfeiting of...
Proposal by the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang Shenyang Municipal Committee receives attention as Shenyang vigorously develops organic agriculture and organic food
Recently, a proposal entitled "On Vigorously Developing Organic Agriculture and Organic Food" by the Shenyang Municipal Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang has attracted the attention of relevant departments in Shenyang. The Shenyang Municipal Agriculture Commission stated that it would carefully study and adopt the opinions and suggestions in the proposal to vigorously develop organic agriculture...
3•15 Observer Team: Taking a close look at “organic food”
Source: Taiyuan News Network
Breaking open a tomato to check its colour, grabbing a handful of rice to inspect its sheen, eating a bite of an egg to taste its flavour, and biting into a steamed bun to smell the aroma of wheat... Yesterday morning, the “3/15 Citizens” Observation Group", jointly initiated by Taiyuan Evening News, the Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce, and the Municipal Consumers' Association, began its...
“Organic sugar knowledge
(1) What is meant by “organic”?
“Organic” refers to a system of growing and processing food—using methods that are “kind to the planet”.
(2) Are organic foods completely free of chemicals and pesticides?
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