Organic Consumers Association Responds to Faulty and Misleading UK Organic Nutrition Study


	Organic Consumers Association Responds to Faulty and Misleading UK Organic Nutrition Study

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8-5-2009 6:09 PM

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UK readers see source on how authorities "protect" our health.

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the UK's Food Standards Agency is a government agency, its chairpersons
read more like a who's-who of European agribusiness. FSA Chairman John
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FSA study pointedly ignored the growing body of research that
demonstrates organic foods nutritional superiority to conventional
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