Category: News and events

How processed do you want your organic food?

Should processing and additives be applied to organic foods?

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Sheep Scab Defeats Organic Production?

An animal health crisis is threatening the future viability of organic sheep production in the UK.

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Black stem rust of wheat: a re-awakening nightmare?

Back in eighteenth century Europe, a man called Tozzetti noted that black stem rust disease of wheat was worse in fields where barberry…

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A Sense of Public Duty

A Sense of Public Duty – Thoughts on Compensation for Bernard Matthews

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Passing the taste test

Baking guru Andrew Whitley with some rather special bread in his kitchen…

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Let's stop bleating about the bushes

As climate change starts to bite, the advantages of agroforestry become increasingly obvious

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A licence to pollute and profit

Carbon emissions aren’t going down, industries aren’t switching to clean energy technology

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2007 OAS

Organic Advisory Service Information

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“Organocrats” deliver another false dawn

After several false dawns the new EU Regulation

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MEPs vote on GM coexistence

The recent vote in the European Parliament for a maximum GM contamination level in EU organic products of 0.1% should be welcomed as a success…

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How much organic land in Europe

How much organic land in Europe

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...but not organic carrots

Try something new today, says Sainsbury’s – but not organic carrots

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Farm animal superbug worries

MRSA superbug threat to human health from infected farm animals

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Brussels takes pride in its new organic regulation

Brussels takes pride in its new organic regulation

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Supermarkets bad - box schemes god

The real expense of supermarket veg

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Not so bootiful now

What lessons has Bernard Matthews learned from the outbreak of H5N1 avian flu in his Suffolk turkeys.

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Deforestation diesel - the madness of biofuels

How sustainable are biofuels? Politicians love them, conservationists have a different view.

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Biofuels end cheap food

It’s official – biofuels are taking over as the main growth driver for agricultural demand. So says the world’s leading investment bank Goldman Sachs.

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