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Big Food lies to you (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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  • buy organic food with no preservatives
  • look ingredients
  • salt (inorganic preservative)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought people in the US calling food "organic" was akin to our "Agriculture biologique" in France, which is heavily regulated at an european level. Is it nit the case?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The AB label is regulated yes, which is almost equivalent to the EU green leaf. Then there are various private labels. In the US it's all up to private labels I believe.

Anyone can put "bio" and a vaguely green packaging on anything though AFAIK. And I don't think the average consumer is very knowledgeable about which label means what; I certainly am not.

Then there's the problem of fraud, and various issues with the way the EU defines "biological agriculture", but I don't really know much about either.