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Organic farmers mostly play by the rules
20 Oct 2004
Andrew Monk, chief executive officer of the of the Biological Farmers of Australia, which manages the Australian Certified Organic label, says that his company removes the certification on average of about one farmer every year for breaches of the industry standard. In the last year, BFA removed the certification from three farmers. BFA manages the certification of about 1,000 farmers, as well as several hundred organisations involved in processing and marketing organic products. Mon says that, "Most of the breaches I have seen have been accidental and minor. The occurrence of fraud is very rare. In my two years I have only seen it once."
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