Groups Petition USDA to Restore Organic Board’s Independent Authorities Set by Congress
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 17, 2014. Today, 20 organic farm and consumer groups filed a petitionwith U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to protect the authority and permanence of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). The petitioners object to recent changes to the NOSB charter, renewed on May 8, 2014, that undermine the mandatory and continuing duties of the Board as established by Congress…
