ORGANICFRAUD.ORG

In 1992 we visited the farm of Maria Amelia in Portugal, and found fraud. We made a report and learned that the honest control organisation Agrobio was unable to stop the Senda organisation, who had created its own control organisation... The name of the website "www.organicfraud.org" is also the name of a foundation established in 2006 by some farmers in Holland that felt competition from a Thai sweetcorn producer. We went to Thailand in november 2005. First we spoke to researchers and professors who thought organic sweetcorn would be hard to produce in their country. Then we visited four companies that had organic products in their list of products, but they could not sell us organic sweetcorn- ears. Then we did find one of the farms of our competitor and found fraud... We are a group of farmers who think that many certification-bodies leave the door open to organic fraud. They rely on ‘confidence' more than on controle. Confidence may have been good enough for those farms who..

Also known as: Organic Fraud