date:Jan 23, 2019
The US government shutdown is stalling plans to block fraudulent imports of organic produce. The 2018 farm bill instructed the US Department of Agriculture to develop and implement regulations to reduce the amount of fake organic food being imported. The decision came after The Washington Post reported that millions of pounds of imported grains were being unjustly marked and sold as organic last year.
Part of the reason this was able to happen is the laws regulating organic imports were written